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Memoir of a Civil War Soldier's Wife 1890
Mary Middleton Orr recounts her Civil War experiences walking from Transylvania County to Knoxville with her mother in 1864 to join Union husbands. She details peril, travel hardships, family hardships, and faith, ending with notes on her family’s postwar life and memorials.
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Mack Gillespie
Mary Middleton Orr
Kinson Middleton
Narcissus Beck Middleton
Mary Middleton
Robert Franklin Orr IV
Mary
Mary Orr
Transylvania County
Knoxville
Tennessee
Jere Brittain
French Broad
Morristown
Mother
Confederacy
Father
Col
John Baxter
Tfe
Old North Carolina
Robert F
Robert Franklin Orr
Beulah Baptist Church
Big Willow
Robert