From Eugenia Bronaugh to John A. Bushnell

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Title: From Eugenia Bronaugh to John A. Bushnell
Creator: Eugenia Bronaugh
Description: Eugenia Bronaugh writes to John Bushnell from Hickory Grove, Missouri on May 30, 1865. She describes a severe thunderstorm, and says the shrubbery in her garden is “destroyed since the war.” Eugenia says her relatives in Saline County, Missouri wish they could relocate from their home because it reminds them of “evils committed in the name of ‘Liberty.’” Eugenia herself also longs to relocate to escape unfaithful friends and memories of “the cruelties of war.”
Date: May 30, 1865
Local Subject: Women
Surviving a Guerrilla War
People: Eugenia Bronaugh
Geographic Subject: Henry County, Missouri
Saline County, Missouri
Object Type: Letter
Owning Organization: Missouri Valley Special Collections
Location: Bushnell Papers, Box 1: Correspondence: Folder 20
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