Abstract:
These letters from 1864 from M. E. Whitehurst and H. C. Whitehurst to their mother, Mrs. H. P. Whitehurst of Pitt County. One letter from 1863 is from Mrs. Martha Ann Brickell Hoyt (1804-1889) widow of Goold Hoyt, to her daughter in Louisiana, Sally Marshall, wife of Allen Walker Marshall. She talks of the conditions in Greenville and the slave trade.