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- GLC#
- GLC04703.05-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- February 20, 1863
- Author/Creator
- Dederer, N. A., fl. 1862-1863
- Title
- to Peter B. Rathbone
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 4 p. :
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Continued 21 February. Receives photographs of his family and comments on their "over sanctimonious countenances." Lists some of his duties including distributing clothing to contrabands, and attending to the complaint of a Negro who was shot by an overseer. Says that Blacks were brought in to repair the levee which burst during the night. "The great annoying question now is how to dispose of these Negroes. The authorities are trying to induce them to return to their former masters and work for small wages..."
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