At least two letters from Georgia Ann Frances "Fannie" Bryan Pittman Wimberly, pictured above, were said to be in the lost scrapbook. In one of those letters, written on 21 January 1862, to her sister Catherine Amanda Bryan Watts and sister-in-law, Alice Mary Wimberly Bryan, Fannie writes of her visit to New Orleans to visit her husband, James "Jim" Pittman. Below are my two favorite excerpts from that letter.
"The place all the time seems like it is tearing up from bottom to top. All seems confusion. I have not been in the streets yet. I recon I will see the elephant sure enough when I go.""Oh my sakes, you just ought to see the Madam" She is one of them you read about I think she beats all I've seen yet."
Copies of Georgia Ann Frances' letters and others were sent to me by researcher Julia Brittain in the 1990s. Marguerite Cook Clark's collection of family information and photos, first accessed in 2014, also contained copies of some of the letters and newspaper clippings that are said to be in the scrapbook.
