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Sarah Panill Miller Payne letters

Sarah Payne was a Campbell County, Virginia, schoolteacher and homemaker. This volume contains typescripts of letters that describe the doings and whereabouts of various family members, farm life, and social and economic adjustments during Reconstruction, with thoughts on the Civil War, secession a...

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Main Author: Payne, Sarah Panill Miller 1820-1910 (Creator)
Collection:Sarah Panill Miller Payne Letters
Collection Number:Am.12358
Format: Manuscript
Language:English
Subjects and Genres:
United States > History > Reconstruction, 1866-1876 > Personal accounts
Women's history > Social life and customs > 19th Century.
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Physical Description: 0.08 Linear feet 0.08 linear feet, 1 volume
Summary: Sarah Payne was a Campbell County, Virginia, schoolteacher and homemaker. This volume contains typescripts of letters that describe the doings and whereabouts of various family members, farm life, and social and economic adjustments during Reconstruction, with thoughts on the Civil War, secession and slavery. There is also a letter by Payne's father, Sam T. Miller, and an epilogue by Payne, 1910, that provides a brief autobiographical sketch.

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