Abstract
When the Florida secession convention voted in January 1861 to withdraw the state from the Union, it made a fateful decision, the consequences of which its members scarcely understood. The lives of Floridians, white and black, would be fundamentally altered-at first almost imperceptably, then with increasing speed and force-by the action of the delegates. Typical in many ways of those citizens whose lives would be completely altered by secession and civil strife was a young couple from Welaka in Putnam County-Octavia and Winston Stephens.
Recommended Citation
Hodges, Ellen E.
(1977)
"Children of Honor: Letters of Winston and Octavia Stephens, 1861-1862,"
Florida Historical Quarterly: Vol. 56:
No.
1, Article 6.
Available at:
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol56/iss1/6
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