Rogers recounts recent experiences & dispenses domestic advice for the home front …

<< BEFORE: “Dear Sister…” (PART 1 of 2)





NEXT: Thanksgiving, 1863 >>

SOURCE:  The Effects of War: Letters of Joseph S. Rogers by the Warner Historical Society in collaboration with Stanley Warren.

Rogers even mentions Thanksgiving (1861) at the end!

20 November 1862


One response to “We Go Without Mittens Very Well (Rogers, Nov. 20 1862, #2)”

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