Family correspondence – Williams Carter Wickham (1820-1888) with his wife, Lucy Penn Taylor Wickham (1830-1913) and young children

Containers:

Box 12, Folder 2

Extent:

1 folder(s)

Scope and content:

Topics include the alarm of the people in the area north of the Rappahannock where people are abandoning their homes and "Negroes" or enslaved laborers are going northward by the hundreds (March 14, 1862); bivouacking comfortably near Brandy Station (April 4, 1862); and reports that their new location is twelve miles below Williamsburg and five miles from Yorktown at "Blows Mill" and that they are short on provisions (April 18, 22 and 24, 1862).

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