Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Charlotte Cross Wigfall to Louise Wigfall, July 29, 1861

I send you the “Examiner” of to-day, which has full extracts from the Northern papers — about the battle. Some of the handcuffs were shown at the Hotel, yesterday, but I did not happen to see them. ’Tis however a fact — how many exactly I don't know — but there are certainly a great many taken.

SOURCE: Louise Wigfall Wright, A Southern Girl in ’61, p. 74

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