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Brave Women pass through Asheville to Knoxville in Civil War memoir
In a memoir segment from 1890, Mary Middleton Orr recounts a perilous 1861 journey with her mother and ten children from Transylvania County to Knoxville to join Union husbands. They face Rebel guards in Asheville, gain a pass from Col Palmer, and find shelter with Mrs Mathers before reuniting with kin and reflecting on their parents' burials and legacy.
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Mary Middleton Orr
Mary
Transylvania County
Knoxville
Tennessee
George Orr
Asheville
Col. Palmer
Palmer
Robert F. Orr
Reds
Folk
Yankees
John
Mathers
Orr
Middleton
Kinson
Mrs. Mather
Mother
Sis
Robert Franklin Orr
Beulah Baptist Church
Big Willow
Robert
Marshall