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Title	Letter, A. Shaw to Mary Shaw 3/17/1862
Description	Letter, Albert Shaw to his mother, Mary Shaw, telling her that a new regiment (the 36th Mississippi Infantry) was raised in Meridian, Mississippi, and elected Drury Brown as a colonel. He also writes that Copiah County has nearly two thousand men in the army. 1862.
Creator	Shaw, Albert, 1828-1864
Physical ID	12-F2-2
Date (original)	1862-03-17
Date	March 17, 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.) Meridian (Miss.) Civil war United States Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 36th Brown, Drury J.
Original collection	Thompson B. Shaw-McKell papers
Object type	text
Format (original)	Correspondence: 1 leaf 21.8 X 18.8 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	Monday Mch. 17th 1862 Dear Mother I have improved considerably since you left us. And hope that by taking every possible pains I may continue to improve. The ballance are all well. I send you by the mail a daily paper. It is out very late date but as you say you get no papers now it may have some news for you. I have heard no news since you was with us except what you will find in the paper I send. The new troops raised under the last requisition of our Gov. at Meridian have Organized a Reg. and Elected Drury Brown Coln. There is nearly enough men there besides to make another Reg. Hurrah for Mississippi and above all for the Great County of Copiah. She has nearly two thousand men in the Army. Tell Arch to never give up to a bad feeling. Yours Affectionately A. Shaw

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