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Memoir of Harriet Cushman shows Civil War era journey
The 1859 letter from Harriet Maria Cushman to her Bennington grandmother recounts a long trip from Mansfield La to Bennington via Westfield Erie Cleveland St Louis and New Orleans. She describes teaching at Mansfield Female College meeting relatives and a fatal man overboard incident on the Red River journey. She notes weather snow in Vermont and the cold affecting enslaved workers, and mentions family ties including Cushman ancestors and descendants such as Captain James Robert Blair and Thomas Cushman.
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Benn Egton Museum
Harrie
Maria Cushman
Mansfield
Bennington
Caroline (Cushman) Wellington
Miss Cushman
Mansfield Female College
George Thatcher
Deep South
South
James Robert Blair
Georgia
Corsicana
Texas
Henry T. Cushman
North Bennington
John Cushman
Sophronia Hurd Thatcher
Cushman
Eliza Ann Carey
Thomas A. Cushman
Eliza Sophronia (Cushman) Bennett
Charles G. Bennett
Fred
Thatcher
Hurd
Westfield
N.Y. State
Erie
Lake Erie
Cleveland
Desiah
St. Louis
Soph
Hattie
Mississippi
New Orleans
Red River
George
Herbert
Vermont
Lydia