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Daniels, Cora L V. Letter to Amy Kirby Post.
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Page 5 I wish the friends in R_ would raise a handsome little (or large) sum towards this laudable end. God knows we are poor ourselves, but we are [going?] & strong & dear husband has every prospect of success - if the union people can hire him at all he will succeed. - but here is a poor widow (& there are many such) bereft of a noble husband who died nobley in defense of the right, & while she is left to starve or receive the bounty of friends the very men who murdered her husband are reveling in luxury - infamously par- doned by that double traitor & murderer Andrew Johnson. My blood boils & my tongue cannot find words to ex- press my indignation when I remember & behold the