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Metadata
Title |
letter |
Dates of Creation |
10/26/1861 9/22/1859 |
Scope & Content |
Letter headed Saturday evening [October 26, 1861 by context] to Emma W. Breckinridge from her daughter in law Julia A. Breckinridge telling of events in Pattonsburg, local ladies decided to form a Soldiers Aide Society, elected Mrs. Valentine as president, and Julia as Secretary, members pledged to pay ten cents dues, and agreed to "beg continually for anything and everything", she is waiting for a Mrs. Pendleton (Uncle Jordan Anthony's niece) to arrive, her husband is in the Confederate Army and she has two bothers in the Northern Army even though she is for the southern cause, of making dandelion coffee that tastes as good as "ring rio" (coffee?) and giving a description of how she prepared the material to make coffee. Julia is making plans for a trip to Richmond, and another to Grove Hill in the near future, about several people in the town who have diptheria and at least one who has died. |
Year Range from |
1861 |
Creator |
Julia Breckinridge |
Year Range to |
1861 |
Subjects |
Baby Beggars Brothers Children Civil War Clothes Coffee Committee Confederate Army dandelion coffee diphtheria dues (membership fee) Dying Ground Housekeeping Ladies Music lessons Negro girl (slave) Northern Army Secretaries Soldiers Aid Society South, southern states Trunks War |
Search Terms |
Breckinridge family Grove Hill (residence) Lynchburg, Virginia New Orleans Norfolk Richmond, Virginia |
People |
Anthony, Deborah Anthony, J. [Jordan] Boyd, Mrs. William Breckinridge, Gilmer Breckinridge, Cary Breckinridge, Eliza Breckinridge, Emma Walker Gilmer Finney, Capt. Pendleton, Mrs. Valentine, Mrs. Woods, Mrs Woodville, Mary Ann Breckinridge |
Collection |
Breckinridge Collection |
Imagefile |
054\196951630.JPG |
Number of images |
4 |
Object Name |
Letter |
Object ID |
1969.51.630 |
Extent of Description |
6" x 8" four pages |