Kate Gordon letter to Josiah Gordon
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- Title
- Kate Gordon letter to Josiah Gordon
- Date
- 1862 February 2
- Creator
- Gordon, Catherine (Kate)
- Notes
- Second and third pages of a letter from Kate Gordon to her husband, Josiah Gordon, while he is in prison for disloyalty to the Union. Kate relates an incident in which her house and a slave are stoned by youths protesting their Southern sympathies.
- Names and Subjects
- Cumberland (Md.)
- Gordon, Catherine (Kate)
- Gordon, Josiah H., d. 1887
- Political prisoners
- Slaves
- Stoning
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects
- Genre
- Correspondence
- Collection Title
- Gordon family papers
- Collection Creator
- Gordon family
- ID
- 59
- Repository
- William L. Clements Library
- Date Added/Updated
- 2012-11-26 03:51:32
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- 1700 x 2680
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- 606 KB
- Record
- 59
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"Kate Gordon letter to Josiah Gordon". https://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wcl1ic/x-59/wcl000100. In the digital collection William L. Clements Library Image Bank. William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. May 09, 2024.