Letter from Mary Johnson McRae in Selma, Alabama, probably to her brother James McRae.

@ Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130

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In the letter Mary discusses visits with family and friends; the sale of the foundry at Selma to the Confederate government; Colin McRae's recent appointment as chief financial agent in Europe; acquaintances who are fighting in the war, including a former slave; local slaves who have run away; and the impressment of slaves to build fortifications around Mobile ("If time, money and labor can render a place secure Mobile ought to be for it has had all").

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600 Ppi Tiff

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1863 March 1 1863 03 01

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Letter from Mary Johnson McRae in Selma, Alabama, probably to her brother James McRae.

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