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Title	Letter, A. Shaw to Mary Shaw 12/2/1861
Description	Letter, Albert Shaw to his mother, Mary Shaw. He writes that he is still unwell and that he has the 'flux.' Another company left Brookhaven, but there is no news from the war. He tells her about the cotton and some hogs that they plan to kill. Some of their neighbors have diphtheria. 1861.
Creator	Shaw, Albert, 1828-1864
Physical ID	12-F2-1
Date (original)	1861-12-02
Date	May 19, 1862
Digital Collection Title	ASERL
Rights	Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.
Subject	Shaw family Copiah County (Miss.) Agriculture Cotton Civil war United States Brookhaven (Miss.) Diphtheria Diseases
Original collection	Thompson B. Shaw-McKell papers
Object type	text
Format (original)	Correspondence: 1 leaf 19.8 X 12.7 cm.
Format (digital)	JPEG JPEG
Digital publisher	Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version).
Related materials	http://www.american-south.org/ http://www.american-south.org/
Language	en
Repository	Manuscripts Division, Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University Libraries.
Contact information	For more information send email to sp_coll@library.msstate.edu or call 662-325-7679.
Tag field	December 2010
Transcript	At Home Dec. 2nd 1861 Dear Mother The Stage passed again this morning before I had time to write to you. I shall send this to Brookhaven and it will not reach you so early. We are all well except myself. I do not improve. I have missed the fever several times but had it again last nite. I have had symptoms of Flux for several days which makes me weaker than usual. I have no late news from the war. There is another Company to leave Brookhaven on next Wednesday under the last requisition of our Governor. We have had Heavy rains last night and this morning. We have a good deal of cotton that is very white and I expect it is badly wasted. We have six big hogs to kill and they are very fat. The disease called diphtheria is at our nearest neighbors. If I improve soon we will come down and see you. Yours &c A. Shaw

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