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  Letter from Mary A. Jones to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; September 6, 1862

  1862 letter from a Natchez, Mississippi widow, Mary A. (Mead) Jones, to Governor Pettus. Her deceased husband, Captain Alfred A. Jones, had joined the Confederate army in Yazoo City. Mrs. Jones, who was born in Alabama, is the mother of three young children and is requesting financial assistance for her family.

  Tags Alabama, Children of military personnel, Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi, Confederate States of America. Army, Correspondence, Families of military personnel, Mississippi. Governor, Natchez (Miss.), United States--History--Civil War, War widows, Women--1860-1870, Yazoo City (Miss.)