Letters of the Underwood family, 1813, 1861, and 1913.

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Letters of the Underwood family, 1813, 1861, and 1913.

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In a letter, 1813 May 8, Joseph Rogers Underwood writes to his uncle, Edmund Rogers, that he has been taken prisoner of war by the British and is being humanely treated on the schooner "Mary" near Fort Meigs on the Miami River. In a letter, 1913 May 8, Edmund Rogers' descendant, Edmund P. Rogers, gives the 1813 letter to Joseph Rogers Underwood's descendant, Oscar Wilder Underwood. In a letter, 1861 April 2, Joseph Rogers Underwood writes to the Honorable W. Thomas about a pamphlet by John Cabell Breckinridge and the latter's speech before the Kentucky legislature in support of preserving the Union by a Constitutional amendment guaranteeing slavery in the territories. He mentions his own efforts to preserve the Union and his fears of Civil War.

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