Dear Ones At Home: Letters From Contraband Camps - Civil War 1966 Book

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Dear Ones At Home: Letters From Contraband Camps - Civil War 1966 Book:
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Dear Ones at Home

Letters from ContrabandCamps

Edited byHenry L. Swint, published by Vanderbilt University Press in 1966, hardcover,274 pages, very good condition. Acollection of letters from Lucy and Sarah Chase of Worcester, Mass. The Chasesisters worked for a freedman’s aid society during the Civil War, teaching andworking amongst the newly freed slaves. Their letters describe variouslocations throughout the south, the conditions in the contraband camps and thevarious officers and men of the Union army whom the encountered. A rare look atthe lives of contraband slaves in the midst of the Civil War.