12. Draft Copies- From Flag to Flag - Eliza McHatton Ripley manuscript, 1889
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Series 12 contains draft copies of From Flag to Flag, an account of the journey of Eliza McHatton Ripley, Thomas H. McHatton's paternal grandmother, with her husband James McHatton from Louisiana through Texas and Mexico to Cuba during the Civil War. Eliza and James McHatton accompanied a wagon train loaded with cotton slated for sale to the Confederate Government. From Flag to Flag was published in 1889.