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Frank Malcom letters, 1864
1864-07-16 Page 01
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nim? near Marietta Sent as many as five hundred Slaves South and had them Sold two years ago. but remained here themselves until this Summer. Saturday July 16" 1864 Dear Lide. I Stoped writing last night Thinking That I would receive a letter from You by todays mail but It did not come. So I will now finish. Yours of the 26" is the last news That I have had from home Exapting a plain dealer that Dennis Morrison received this morning but I finde there is no news in it. I believe In my last letter to you I spoak of a factory that had been destroyed at Roswell. but I did not give it to you correct as it is much more extreme than I had been told It was. - Roswell was a Manufacturing Town Situated one mile & a half from the Chattahoochee River on a beautiful Pine Ridge. & Consisted of about one Hundred & fifty fine Buildings & three or four Large Cotton & Woolen Factories affording employment for Eight Hundred Young Women four hundred of whom are Still here & the others have gone north. Some of the factory girls went South with the Rebels when they Evacuated the place but I am Informed that they have almost all of them returned. The Factories are all Burned to the ground The Superentendant Claimed Protection from the French Government but our Authorities would not recognize it So Mr Frenchman was Sent north for Safe Keeping. I am glad Mr Taylor has got a place In The Army Think it will benefuit his health
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nim? near Marietta Sent as many as five hundred Slaves South and had them Sold two years ago. but remained here themselves until this Summer. Saturday July 16" 1864 Dear Lide. I Stoped writing last night Thinking That I would receive a letter from You by todays mail but It did not come. So I will now finish. Yours of the 26" is the last news That I have had from home Exapting a plain dealer that Dennis Morrison received this morning but I finde there is no news in it. I believe In my last letter to you I spoak of a factory that had been destroyed at Roswell. but I did not give it to you correct as it is much more extreme than I had been told It was. - Roswell was a Manufacturing Town Situated one mile & a half from the Chattahoochee River on a beautiful Pine Ridge. & Consisted of about one Hundred & fifty fine Buildings & three or four Large Cotton & Woolen Factories affording employment for Eight Hundred Young Women four hundred of whom are Still here & the others have gone north. Some of the factory girls went South with the Rebels when they Evacuated the place but I am Informed that they have almost all of them returned. The Factories are all Burned to the ground The Superentendant Claimed Protection from the French Government but our Authorities would not recognize it So Mr Frenchman was Sent north for Safe Keeping. I am glad Mr Taylor has got a place In The Army Think it will benefuit his health
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