Letter, Loulie Feemster to Alex W. Feemster, July 1863 07/1863

Letter from Loulie Feemster to her husband, Alex W. Feemster, in Selma, Alabama, mainly regarding a boil on her breast, which makes it difficult to feed their baby, Mattie. The doctor recommended that she use \u27\u27Tansy poultice\u27\u27 on it, but she followed the advice of her Aunt Edith and used raw cabbage leaves, which she found \u27\u27very soothing.\u27\u27 She mentions that she thought she would have child-bed fever. 1863.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/mss-oakley-papers/1003/thumbnail.jp