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1. Letter from Joseph Pringle Alston to Charles Alston, July 29, 1862

Letter from Joseph Pringle Alston to Charles Alston, July 29, 1862
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1862-07-29
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A handwritten, four-page letter from Joseph Alston to his father, Charles Alston, in which he tells him of his experience in a skirmish with a Union gunboat and updates him on the movement of other Confederate troops. He also discusses the spread of edema among enslaved people and them escaping to Union soldiers. In addition, he mentions the conditions at his residence and the spread of fever there.

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