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title: 'Marion Through the Brush: A Border Story'
type: pdf
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authors:
- 'Julia McNair Wright'
date: 1872-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Fiction'
- 'History (General)'
- 'Family, Marriage, and Roles of Men and Women'
scriptures:
- 'Psalms 55'
- 'Isaiah 53'
- 'Proverbs 3'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/wright-1872-marion-through-the-brush-a-border-story
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# Marion Through the Brush: A Border Story

Civil War-era tale of Marion Hamsted, a young girl sent from Arkansas to New York after family deaths. A father's grief, faith, and the trials of separation and journey.

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