"A transcription of this letter can be found at this link: http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/view.aspx?id=0012&show=notes"
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| 13849 | 12.1.a | Lightfoot Paper, 1865 | 28 May 1865 | Letter (28 May 1865) written by a Pro-Union woman living in Gainesville, Georgia to her sister in the North just over a month after the end of the civil war, in which she describes the wartime suffering of the people in the South due to the blockade, financial losses of southerners who invested in Confederate bonds, efforts of ladies to prepare clothes for soldiers; her refusal to participate in this activity; the murder of Union prisoners by Southern Home Guard troops in November 1864; plans of neighbors to move to Mexico; lack of new clothes as a result of the war; and family news; speculation by neighbors about whether slaves would actually be freed and Southern land confiscated. Photocopied. 6 p. 2 copies. Loaned for copying my Miss Jean Lightfoot, 9/25/1967. Transcript available.
Digitize only the sepia colored copy of the letter.
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