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Identifier

MUM00683, 1.29

Recipient

Roxana Chapin Gerdine (1833-1891)

Publication Date

9-9-1866

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Joe writes to Roxana while she was visiting family in Chicopee, MA. He discusses the Mississippi gossip and mentions seeing quite a number of Confederate veterans recently (Col. Chalmers, Col. Sims, Col. Young). Joe also write about "Pa" in some detail (William L.C. Gerdine). Note: Joe's first wife and child died in 1865. He would remarry in 1867 to Rebecca C. Murrah and have eight children including Joe Jr. in 1870

Subject Headings (Library of Congress)

Travel; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Gerdine, William Louis Crawford, d. 1878; Women -- United States -- History -- 19th century ; Plantation life -- Southern States -- History; Confederate States of America

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correspondence

City

Columbus (Miss.)

Original Collection

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

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A.L.S. (2 p.)

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

Joe Gerdine to Roxana Chapin Gerdine (1866 September 9)

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