Original image housed in a photo album believed to have belonged to Ellen Mordecai, Catherine’s sister-in-law. The album is preserved at the Mordecai House in Raleigh, NC.
Catherine Ann Devereux Edmondston
March 17, 2011 by civilianwartime
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- I should like very much to help you eat some of your strawberries, but I do not expect any such delicacies this season. #cw150… 6 hours ago
- Abolitionists are blockading the River just above Plymouth, to keep the Gun boat we are building at Edwards Ferry from attacking them… 10 hours ago
- I think that we will take a ride round in Pennsylvania in a few days #cw150 wp.me/p1qIB8-1ve 1 day ago
- Mr. Henry went to Asheville today with a load of bacon for which he gets $1.00 pr lb. He sold to the armory. #cw150 wp.me/p1qIB8-1vc 1 day ago
- Ad in May 1863 newspaper to collect wool yarn in exchange for cotton to "provide for your husbands, brothers, and sons in the field" #cw150… 2 days ago
- There are some 40 or 50 cases of small pox in Skuffletown and spreading rapidly. #cw150 wp.me/p1qIB8-1va 2 days ago
- Pa sent me a little negro to nurse for me and a new calico dress for which he paid $32 1/2 dollars #civilwar150 wp.me/p1qIB8-1v4 3 days ago
- The brigade mail boy was arrested and confined for breaking open leters. He is to be shot I reckon. #cw150 wp.me/p1qIB8-1v2 4 days ago
- The box has finally been received and everything is so nice. My clothes fit beautifully. #civilwar150 wp.me/p1qIB8-1v0 4 days ago
- Recipe for blacking from China Berries "will equal any Yankee blacking" and leaves a gloss on boots #cw150 wp.me/p1qIB8-1uW 5 days ago
- Without a lasting peace I do not want to return home, and nor would I want to do so while I am able to do duty. #cw150… 5 days ago
- May 1863: Instructions to clean a pig's head begin with "chop off the snout from the head" #cw150 wp.me/p1qIB8-1uR 6 days ago
- May 1863 recipe for Rice Cake that "does nicely for a tea cake" #civilwar150 wp.me/p1qIB8-1uU 6 days ago
- I am getting use to all kinds of hard ships in warfare & though I say it myself I know nothing of cowardice #cw150 wp.me/p1qIB8-1uO 6 days ago
- I wish Mr. Henry could stay at home to attend to his business but he has other business that perhaps is of more importance. #cw150… 1 week ago
- Our servant boy Bill died last Tuesday, was sick near five months. I felt very bad after he died #cw150 wp.me/p1qIB8-1uI 1 week ago
- Gen. Jackson is dead.We have lost one of our best Generals. A nation now mourns his loss. #cw150 wp.me/p1qIB8-1uD 1 week ago
- A bold Yankee commander could make a dash & burn it without meeting the slightest opposition, so denuded is our county of both men & arms.… 1 week ago
- When I write again I hope I will have something else to write on but my hand and knee. #cw150 wp.me/p1qIB8-1uB 1 week ago
- Rest assured that I value my life too highly to throw it away uselessly. #civilwar150 wp.me/p1qIB8-1uv 1 week ago
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