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Gerdine, Roxana Chapin, 1833-1891

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Identifier

MUM00683, 1.26

Recipient

Emily McKinstry Chapin

Publication Date

6-22-1865

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Roxana writes in detail about what is happening in post-Civil-War Mississippi; freedmen; death of (daughter-in-law) Maddie (married to Joe Gerdine) and their baby; death of a freewoman's baby that morning; the sending of a former slave "Aunt Tempe" away in part due to the running away of her daughter Harriet with Federal troops came through Columbus and resulting consequences

Subject Headings (Library of Congress)

Slavery; Slaves; Homefront; Freedmen; Death; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Women -- United States -- History -- 19th century ; Plantation life -- Southern States -- History; Confederate States of America

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correspondence

City

West Point (Miss.)

Original Collection

Roxana Chapin Gerdine Collection, Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries

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A.L. (4 p.) Fragment

Also included in the Civil War in the American South collection.

Roxana Chapin Gerdine to Emily McKinstry Chapin (1865 June 22)

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