John Rodgers Goldsborough letter to his wife, 1862.

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John Rodgers Goldsborough letter to his wife, 1862.

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The collection consists of a 50-page handwritten letter to his wife, Mary Pennington Goldsborough. The letter begins on April 21, 1862 and continues until May 8, 1862 as Goldsborough waits for a ship to dock and pick up the mail. He describes or mentions the following topics: a Rebel fort on Jekyll Island, his plans to make Saint Simons Island a self-supporting colony, contrabands (slaves), his school for the slaves, the Pierce Butler estate on the island, and attack by Rebels to capture or kill the slaves, the abandoned estate of James Hamilton Couper, his visit to Frederica, the Merrimac, and his orders to exchange with Commander Sylvanus Godon and move to Warsaw, South Carolina.

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