An east Texas family's Civil War : the letters of Nancy & William Whatley, May-December 1862
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An east Texas family's Civil War : the letters of Nancy & William Whatley, May-December 1862
（Library of Southern civilization）
Louisiana State University Press, c2019
- : cloth
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Summary: "During six months in 1862, William Jefferson Whatley and his wife, Nancy Falkaday Watkins Whatley, exchanged a series of letters that demonstrate vividly the quickly changing roles of women whose husbands left home to fight in the Civil War. The Whatleys were slave owners who owned a ranch in east Texas, near the village of Caledonia in Rusk County. When William Whatley enlisted with the Confederate Army in 1862, he left his young wife Nancy in charge of their cotton farm and enslaved workers"--Provided by publisher
Includes index