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A Voice From the Past from The True Issue
A Civil War era letter from Camp near Nacogdoches Texas March 1863 reports marching through Huntsville Crockett and Alto, rounds of scarcity high prices for corn hens eggs and fodder, notes men ill with rheumatism and dysentery and praises soldiers and citizens, lampooning misconduct at public meetings and promising punishment to violators of decency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Drake
LaGrange
Texas
Camp
Nacogdoches
Huntsville
Trinity
Calhoun’s Ferry
Crockett
Bob Sawyer
Arkansas
McCullum
Capt
D. Morse
Sam Sorrells
T. M. Robinson
Neches
Duran’s
Canosa’s
Jeff
Green
Jeff Davis
Say
Augustine
Louisiana
Sabine
Smoky Townsend
Alto
N. A
W. O. Woodford
Sibley
Meum
Tuum
Alexandria
A. N