Petersburg Crater, Battle of, 1864. Scott, Don E. Scott family. New Hampshire Volunteers, 11th. Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. Letters from Rogene Scott at school in Burlington, Vt., to her mother and brother Don.
Letters are chiefly about routine family and school affairs.
Letters, chiefly to her mother and brother, from Rogene Scott teaching school and giving private music lessons in Grayson, Carter County, Ky., where she boarded with a Mr. and Mrs. Carter. In her first letter, dated 13 January, Rogene wrote of her sympathy for slave house servants. By November, she was considering where to go next. Letters, chiefly to her mother and brother, from Rogene Scott, who in January was en route to a new position in Louisiana. On 29 October, she wrote of the horrors that would follow if efforts to stir slaves to insurrection were successful.