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War women: Love, loss & survival| In the spring of 1863, a woman
in Catahoula Parish at Trinity — across Little River from
present day Jonesville — rented a small room to six men
traveling eastward to Natchez. She charged each a dollar for the
night. In the group was Arthur Lyon Fremantle, an English
officer touring the South to observe the Civil War. Writing
about his travels in a book, he said the woman informed the men
that she didn't want any Rebel soldiers sleeping in her house
with federal troops and a Yankee flotilla moving in and out of
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