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JOHN BRATTON LETTERS, #2216-z, 1861-1865

A collection of letters written by Bratton, physician, state senator, and Confederate army officer from Winnsboro, South Carolina, to his wife. Letters discuss "free Negro volunteers" at Ft. Pickens, Battery Island, South Carolina (1861), and Bratton's directions on the care of slaves in the event that Yankees reach his South Carolina home (1865).