Letter from Mrs. P. E. Collins in Cahaba, Alabama, to Governor John Gill Shorter.
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In the letter Mrs. Collins explains that most of the men in the area have gone to war, leaving the women, children, and elderly men unprotected; of particular concern are the unsupervised slaves on the plantations. She asks the governor to excuse James Nunnalee from military service so that he can oversee the slaves: "He is a rigid disciplinarian and the negroes are more afraid of him than of any other ten men-and as he will count for only one against the Yankees, we think he had best remain where he can do the most good. It is wrong for negroes to be left as they are, thereby inviting our enemies (if they knew it) to place temptations before them." A transcription is included.
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1862 April 5 1862 04 05
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