From Lucie Davis to John Pigg

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Title: From Lucie Davis to John Pigg
Creator: Lucie Davis
Description: This letter, dated September 15, 1864, is from Lucie Davis in Clay County, Missouri to John Pigg. Davis tells Pigg that her mother died after a long illness. She also tells him that Louis Vandiver was moved from a prison in St. Joseph, Missouri to one in St. Louis. Davis predicts that “The bushwhackers are about to take this country,” and adds that they robbed the mail in Clay County and had a fight near Fredericksburg.
Date: September 15, 1864
Local Subject: Battle for Missouri, 1861-1865 -- Military History of Missouri and Kansas
Surviving a Guerrilla War
Bushwhackers
Guerrillas
Women
People: Lucie Davis
Geographic Subject: Clay County, Missouri
St. Joseph, Missouri
Buchanan County, Missouri
Liberty, Missouri
Owning Organization: State Historical Society of Missouri – Columbia
Location: Davis-Vandiver Letters; C299
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