Contributed by Maine Historical Society
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On December 2, 1863, Eunice Sewall wrote to her parents in Mobile, Alabama, about her journey to Choctaw County where she was to teach school. The trip was about 100 miles.
She wrote about encountering soldiers sleeping in a house where she went to get warm between trains and various people she encountered on the journey. She commented that the school where she was to teach was not yet built. The end of the letter is missing.
Eunice Sewall (1837-1918) was born in Portland. Her parents, Kiah and Lucretia Day Sewall, moved to Mobile when she was a young child and the rest of her siblings were born there. Eunice spent much of her time growing up and going to school in Portland.
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About This Item
- Title: Eunice Sewall on trip to Choctaw County, Alabama, 1863
- Creator: Eunice Day Sewall
- Creation Date: 1863-12-02
- Subject Date: 1863-12-02
- Location: Choctaw County, AL
- Media: Ink on paper
- Dimensions: 20 cm x 16 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 105, Box 3/2
- Collection: Sewall family papers
- Object Type: Text
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Carriages & coaches
- Daughters
- Sewall family
- Sewall, Eunice D., (1837-1918)--Correspondence
- Sewall, Kiah Bayley, 1807-1865--Correspondence
- Sewall, Lucretia Day
- Teachers--Alabama
- United States--History--Civil War, 1862-1865--Personal narratives
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