G[etty] M[cGuire],[Winchester, Virginia], to [Rebecca Powell], n.p., [November 1865?].

Containers:

Box-folder 4:7

Extent:

5 pages.

Scope and content:

Says Hunter has a small (medical) practice; gives news about what her other brothers[?] are doing; says Willie is doing well despite the time he spent in prison; tells how he was marched by their home last winter by the Yankees and taken to prison; tells how their house was used as a hospital, her family was put under arrest, and they were forced to live with the Yankees for six months; expresses her hatred of the Yankees; discusses how the last four years have changed her; tells how Gert [?] was working in the hospitals and on the battle field, caught a disease and has been bedridden for the last thirteen months; says she was very weak last winter because of the hard work and anxiety; says she could no longer work in the hospitals because of how the sights of war affected her.

Physical description:

ALS. Incomplete, first part of letter missing.

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