Photo courtesy of the York County Heritage Trust.
Cassandra Morris Small was a 34-year-old single woman living with her parents, wealthy industrialist Philip A. Small and his wife, in a house on E. Market Street across from the Yorktowne Hotel. She wrote at lest three letters to a cousin that provide some of the most compelling insight into Yorker's emotions during Major General Jubal A. Early's occupation of the town during late June 1863.

I offer her first letter on this Cannonball blog; to read the other two, please visit historian and journalist Jim McClure's excellent web pages on local history found on the York Daily Record's website.



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