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- GLC#
- GLC04663.69-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 21 October 1865
- Author/Creator
- Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?
- Title
- to Louise Walbridge
- Place Written
- Florence, South Carolina
- Pagination
- 7 p. :
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Acknowledges a letter he received since venturing south on a speculation scheme. Describes the trouble of trying to travel by rail in South Carolina. The land ladies speak against Yankees during meals at boarding houses. States that South Carolinians are more hot headed than the people of North Carolina. Negroes in the cities believe that the government will supply them with houses and 40 acres so they do not work. The problems of working a plantation with free Negroes. Describes the plight of blacks in the cities. Describes a tournament. [See also GLC04662.118, regarding blacks contracting with planters in Newberne, North Carolina.]
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