Brunt, Olive, fl. 1863-1865 to Martha Weir

GLC07006.11

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GLC#
GLC07006.11-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
4 November 1864
Author/Creator
Brunt, Olive, fl. 1863-1865
Title
to Martha Weir
Place Written
Clarkesville, Tennessee
Pagination
4 p. : Height: 25 cm, Width: 19.5 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Olive writes to Martha for her husband, "but I cannot write to you as he would." Writes of how much she misses her home and friends in Kentucky, but enjoys her work at the Contraband Camp. She and one other woman mend the clothing of the entire camp and want "to make this camp a selfe suporting Camp rais the provisions on the farm and get the cloths by exchanging our labor for cotton." Mentions that there are fifteen teachers in the school. The black soldiers have been turned out of their homes to house Confederate refugees, which Olive says she will try not to mind "as long as they don't hurraw for Jef Davis." Worries about securing shoes for the children during the winter. Olive has black servant women in her home and complains that they are not neat.

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