Davis, Mary Brown, fl. 1862 to Major General Wool

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GLC#
GLC09898.16-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
14 March 1862
Author/Creator
Davis, Mary Brown, fl. 1862
Title
to Major General Wool
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

A letter from Mary Brown Davis to Major General Wool regarding helping "contraband" or escaped enslaved people who have taken refuge in Fort Monroe. Davis outlines her history and where she lived before Chicago. She mentions having been born in Fauquier County and lived at Alexandria Washington, and Mount Vernon. She also mentions editing a newspaper in Wheeling and Winchester. Davis declares that she is strongly Union but loves her native South and prays that the rebellion is crushed and peace restored. Davis volunteers to teach in some capacity among the escaped enslaved people, but mentions she would need to bring her son who is "somewhat afflicted." At the end of the letter she writes, " When in Virginia where all my relatives are slaveholders I was on the constant habit of instructing the people of color."

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