| Physical medium | Paper handwritten. |
| Summary |
Letter written by an unidentified Pro-Union woman living in Gainesville, Ga., to her sister in the North shortly after the end of the Civil War. She describes wartime conditions of southerners, financial losses of southerners who invested in Confederate bonds, efforts of ladies to prepare clothes for soldiers, the murder of Union prisoners by Southern Home Guard troops in November 1864, plans of neighbors to move to Mexico, and slavery. |
| Cite as |
Lightfoot Paper, #12, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, East Carolina University. |
| Reproduction note | Photocopy. Copied at: East Carolina University, East Carolina Manuscript Collection; Sept. 25, 1967. |
| Acquisitions source |
1 item; Miss Jean Lightfoot; Raleigh, NC; loaned for copying; Sept. 25, 1967. |
