Letter from A. E. Lewis to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; December 5, 1862

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Letter from A. E. Lewis to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; December 5, 1862

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Lewis, A. E.Pettus, John Jones, 1813-1867

Events

Starvation Weather and Natural Events--Drought

Military Units

Confederate States of America. Army Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi. Cavalry Battalion, 17th United States. Army

Organizations

Mississippi--Legislature

Places

Alabama--Mobile County. Mobile Mississippi--Jackson County. Pascagoula Sectors of Land--Mississippi. Gulf Coast

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West Pascagoula Dec. 5th 1862,

Gov. John J Pettus,

Dear Sir,

A high sense of feeling for suffering humanity, compels me to bring to your notice the state of things here on the coast, The people here are now actually suffering for bread, Mobile is now their only market place for corn at $3.50 per bushel and only accessible by the slow & cost-ly mode of wagonning. They cannot fall back in the enterior as there is no corn there at any price, the drought last summer parched up every thing. Now to cap the climax, Steed's battalion, I am in-formed, is ordered away from the coast. Without Mississippi now stretched forth her hand to assist her citizens and stations Some rangers here the whole coast region must fall to the Yankees, then inch by inch or rather mile by mile our territory will be absolved by the accurred Yanks. Convene the Legislature, governor, appropriate money for the support of the poor, send partisan rangers here and we may yet Save South Mis-sissippi. There is nothing here now to prevent ten well armed Yankees to roam fifty miles in the interior, for there is not one old man in ten that has a gun load of powder, If we are not ^to be^ protected, please let us know that we may skiddadle in time,

Very respectfully your obt. Servt.

A. E. Lewis

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A. E. Lewis
West Pascagoula
Decr 5^th1862

Says his portion of the state is suffering for bread asks assistance and begs for partizan Rangers to be sent for the protection of the state