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saved 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 pro_slavery 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 bathing would be of service to all.
If Sarah were satisfied in late July, things must have come to a head financially by September 3rd. In a letter from Sea Song to Andrew III, she expressed a willingness ?to abandon it, and move elsewhere.? Before detailing the financial troubles, however, she exhibits the stress that must have been felt by many having to do with the divided loyalties between the Union and the political realities pressing upon them. She first acknowledged his last letter, ?written in camp