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sayed he could not take them up, and they were rotting. 1 give out great many of the negroes Christmas and very near all the rest to Mrs. Claiborne.? {Letter Reference] (to do)
Andrew Jr.?s letter of February 22, contains a dateline ?Sea Song ? Bay St. Louis, Shieldsborrough.? It appears that they had finally moved.
The Winds of Hurricanes and War
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April - May 1860
The Democratic Party holds its convention in Charleston, South Carolina. When the projslavery platform is rejected, delegates from eight Southern states depart.
Bowman, The Civil War Day by Day, p. 18
By July, Sarah was enjoying living on the coast, and so advised Rachel in a letter from Sea Song. ? today the white caps are rolling beautifully. We have such a splendid breeze, your Pa has built a very fine, large bath house, and a wharf 600 feet long... We have a great abundance of splendid peaches of every variety, cut stewed, in pies & fresh from trees... the late rains have benefitted (sic) the crops very much, both cotton and com... the cotton is opening very fast... your Pa hopes to make a fair crop... the peas...are splendid, more than waist high, some cotton he put in here as an experiment surpasses any thing he ever saw, both in size and in the number of bolls, he regrets very much this whole place is not in cotton.? [Letter from Sarah Jackson to Rachel Jackson Lawrence from Sea Song, July 16, I860.].
On July 27th, Sarah again wrote to Rachel, indicating there were some reports of fever in the city, and that the weather was ?favorable to the spread of yellow fever.? She told again of the fruits and vegetables, and also pf the turkeys, ducks, chickens and geese. She wrote that the sea