ENHoughton Letter 1863-10-25 Page 5
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4 revisions | Jannyp at Sep 16, 2020 07:41 PM | |
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Houghton Letter 1863-10-25 Page 5it especialy the women you will | Houghton Letter 1863-10-25 Page 5it especialy the women you will see them not more than thirty five or forty years old looking like old ladies of seventy or eighty with the exception of not having grey hair. Education here is almost unknown except by the wealthier class. I have seen as intelligent looking men as you see any where but whn you go to talk with they will betray their ignorance of the most trifling things adn by handing them a paper they will tell you they cannot read I am told by old soldiers that they are not so ignorant here as in Virginia but I do not wish to see a state any more so than this. |