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Record Group Number: 900000
Collection Number: M92- 1
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Collection/Series Title: Call family and Brevard family papers, 1788-1925.
Container: 00006
File Unit: 00006.00001
Item: 00010
Title: Letter, June 22, 1862, T. W. Brevard, Jr., Tallahassee, to "My Dear Mother," 3 pp.: "I arrived at home in due time after parting with Ephraim Brevard and find things in a more natural and cheerful condition than they are in the states further north and nearer the threatre of the war. There is of course great depression in the money market . . . Mary and the children are very well and I am very happy to be with them again. Carrie being older is of course more interesting than the boy who is very bright and in the most perfect health. Carrie is beginning to talk very sweetly. . . I think I will succeed in raising my Battalion . . . the only trouble now is the great scarcity of men, Florida having already sent . . . about 12000 . . . Mays is not so well as he has been. He had a little fever with asthma yesterday brought on by cold, but is much better . . ."
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