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Permelia Higgerson:
This pot belonged to Permelia Higgerson, who lived with her family on a small farm south of the Orange Turnpike. When Union troops advanced through her yard, she angrily emerged from her house to curse them, calling them "cowardly Yankees" and correctly predicting their repulse. A Union soldier remembered that during the subsequent Union retreat across the farm, Mrs. Higgerson "greeted us as we passed with taunts and derision."
Soon after the war, Mrs. Higgerson moved with her family to Missouri, taking this pot and other meager possessions. |