Manuscript Database
Creator/Title
Stipe, Jacob J. to E. R. Wood, no place - Columbus, Hickman Co., KY. 26 July 1867. ALS, 3 pp.
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Content
Letter from Jacob Stipe, who apparently served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, to his uncle. He expresses anger over the death of his cousins at the hands of "black devils" presumably African-American troops, and is upset that "white men has to stand back and give collard citizens a showing." He also reports on crop values, with wheat fetching $1.75 per bushel and corn $1.00.