Papers, 1851-1881.

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Davis, Lois Wright Richardson. Papers, 1851-1881.

Papers, 1851-1881.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19491606

Chiefly letters to Davis, of Massachusetts, from her children by her first husband, including daughters in Mobile, Ala. The family was divided during the war, with two daughters supporting the South and the sons serving in the Union Army, Charles in the 6th Massachusetts Infantry in Maryland, and Luther with the 26th Massachusetts Infantry in Louisiana and Virginia. Includes letters written from Ship Island, Miss. (1861-1862) and New Orleans, La. (1862-1864); and material on the riots in Baltimore, Md., and battles at Manassas, Malvern Hill, Petersburg, Winchester, Va., and the Shenandoah Valley, Baton Rouge and Port Hudson, La., Sabine Pass, Tex., and along the Mississippi and Red rivers. After the war, daughter Eunice, whose husband died in the service of the Confederacy, remarried to William S. Connolly, a black West Indian ship captain and moved with him to Grand Caymen Island. Her letters, 1870-1875, describe her life there.

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