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Title	Letter, A. Shaw to Mary Shaw 12/07/1862
Description	Letter, Albert Shaw to his mother, Mary Shaw, telling her that his wife, Almerinda (''Rinnie''), is very ill with 'billious cholic.' Their son, Clarence, has recovered from his toothache. He mentions making shoes for the negroes. There was a battle at Coffeeville, Mississippi, but he doesn't know the result (the battle, which took place on December 5, was a Confederate victory). Major Clark is camped at Brookhaven with two companies of cavalry. Shaw sent a wagon to the salt mine, but he has had no word of it since. 1862.
Creator	Shaw, Albert, 1828-1864
Physical ID	12-F2-6
Date (original)	1862-12-07
Date	December 7, 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.) Brookhaven Coffeeville, Battle of, Coffeeville (Miss.), 1862 Civil war United States African-Americans Slavery Salt Shoes Diseases
Original collection	Thompson B. Shaw-McKell papers
Object type	text
Format (original)	Correspondence: 1 leaf 25.9 X 19.8 cm.
Format (digital)	JPEG
Digital publisher	Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version).
Related materials	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 Sunday � Dec. 7th 1862 Dear Mother, I wrote to you last Sunday � then we were all well � Since then Rinnie has been very sick � with something like billious Cholic. She looks badly and is now just able to get about a little. The ballance of us are all well. My own health is I think still improving. Clarence is well since his spell with the toothache and is as noisy and playful as he can be. We are making shoes for the negroes. One of our neighbors Mr. Case is Boss Shoemaker but Henry can do almost as well as he. I believe Henry can do almost anything. There is no news in our neighborhood. It is said there was a fight a few days since at Coffeeville in this State. I have not heard the result. Major Clark at Brookhaven has two Companies of Cavalry at his Camp I suppose to hunt the Conscripts with. We have not heard of our wagon since they started to the Salt mine. I fear from what I see in the papers that the trip will turn out a failure. We have beautiful weather though a little too cold � I hope you will take advantage of it and come out to see us before the roads get bad. Write to us. Yours &. A. Shaw

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