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  Letter from Mrs. J. O. Smith to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus; September 5, 1861

  1861 letter from a Vicksburg, Mississippi widow, Mrs. O. J. Smith, to Governor Pettus. Mrs. Smith offers her services to the Confederate States as a nurse in Virginia. Two of her lady friends are also willing to serve in the Civil War.

  Tags Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi, Confederate States of America, Correspondence, Mississippi. Governor, Nurses, United States--History--Civil War, Vicksburg (Miss.), Virginia, Widows--1860-1870, Women--1860-1870