Maria Jane Southgate Hawes reminiscences, 1914.

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Maria Jane Southgate Hawes reminiscences, 1914.

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Maria Jane Southgate Hawes recalls her childhood and marriage; her husband's army assignments in Washington, D.C., Utah, and Kansas before the Civil War; and her experiences following her husband and living in Kentucky, Mississippi, Arkansas, Shreveport, La., and Galveston, Tex. during the war. Dictated in 1914, the memoir covers the years 1836-1865.

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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