United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.099831866-04-05Letter dated April 5, 1866, from Nancy at Savannah to "Dear Mistress." Thanks her for the things she sent "because I stood in need of them." Says that "Savannah is a bad place now." She would like to come visit but it is such a long way because "I am afraid of the water." Says to tell Miss Anna and Miss [name] not to marry Yankees but Georgians instead like Misses Eliza &Katherine did. "Dear Mistress I feel mighty bad about you because Master says that he will never let you come to Savannah any more" but hopes she will come because Misses Eliza &Katherine are there. "Dear Mistress I could not begin to tell you how the Yankees done me when they came to town they ruined me all together they even took the blankets off the bed I have nothing still and have no way to make any money but I hope I will be in your kitchen yet."image/jp2enghttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/Freed persons--GeorgiaAfrican Americans--History--1863-1877Letter from freedwoman Nancy at Savannah to "Dear Mistress," 1866Text