Reminiscences of the Civil War

by Cora Mitchel

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REMINISCENCES
OF THE
CIVIL WAR

BY

CORA MITCHEL

Providence
Snow & Farnham Co., Printers

REMINISCENCES OF THE CIVIL WAR

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My father, Thomas Leeds Mitchel, of Groton, Connecticut, was a cotton merchant in Apalachicola, Florida, a small but important city at the mouth of the Chattahoochie River. As there were few railroads, all the cotton raised in the interior was shipped down the river to be compressed and taken down the bay, where steamers and sailing vessels were waiting to carry it to England or the Northern States.

Father was one of the earliest settlers, and held important positions of trust in city and church. His wife, Sophia Brownell, of Providence, Rhode Island, a woman of strong character, was well fitted to stand by his side and help him establish a home in an almost new country.