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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC01896.050 |
| From Archive Folder | Archive of Confederate naval operations: Va. volunteer navy, Tredegar Iron Works |
| Title | Roberta Jeffery to Fanny Timberlake about the family escape from Norfolk to Petersburg |
| Date | 9 October 1862 |
| Author | Jeffery, Roberta (fl. 1850-1900) |
| Recipient | Timberlake, Fanny |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Roberta describes her family's nighttime escape from Norfolk to Petersburg, aboard a baggage car, and then there further traveling to Richmond, Lynchburg and Buchanan. Includes a description of accommodations and prices of goods in Petersburg and an account of the family's eventual return to Richmond. Includes news about battle deaths and quick anecdotes. In pencil on the wrapper of the letter is a note from Aaron Jeffery to his cousin [Fanny] begging her to tell him the state of "my affairs" and bemoaning the news that the "servants" are "behaving badly about the care of the household." He advises Fanny to tell them that he will be "home if alive in less than six months". He also reports that the "Yankees have acted more like barbarians than civilized people in every part of Virginia that they have been in excepting Norfolk and the Eastern shore." |
| Subjects | Civil War Women's History Travel Confederate States of America Military History Finance Battle Death Slavery African American History Wartime Pillaging and Destruction Battle of Richmond |
| People | Jeffery, Roberta (fl. 1850-1900) Timberlake, Fanny (fl. 1862) Jeffery, Aaron (fl. 1855-1900) |
| Place written | Richmond, Virginia |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Women in American History; African Americans; Children & Family |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |