Pike County GaArchives News.....Find Letters Written by Confederate Soldier to "The Girl He Left Behind" July 4 1929
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Lynn Cunningham lcunnin1@bellsouth.net June 24, 2003, 11:38 pm

The Monroe Advertiser

Faded old letters, describing the horrors and tragedies of the war between the 
states, written by John P. Graham to his young bride, Susan Frances Storey 
Graham, when he was fighting with the Confederate soldiers in 1863, were 
recently found by Mrs. M.W. McCard, of Molena, among her late mother’s 
possessions.

The letters, yellowed with age, told of the hardships, fears and loneliness of 
the war - which later claimed his life. Graham was only 19 when he left his 
young bride of a few weeks to fight for the Southland, and was just 20 years 
old when he died of typhoid fever in a Yankee hospital.

Mrs. Graham later married Hugh Reeves, who was also a soldier in the 
Confederate Army, and it was from this union that she is survived by five 
daughters and two sons.

Mrs. Reeves recently died at the age of 90 years, and it was while going 
through her personal possessions that the letters written almost 70 years ago 
from her first husband, who gave his life for the lost cause, were found. - 
Pike County Journal.

(Transcribed 06/24/03 Lynn Cunningham)

Additional Comments:
From Record Collections housed at Old Jail Museum/Archives, Barnesville, 
Georgia, Shanna English, Director

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