Henry, Milly
Dates
- Existence: 1855
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Mary A. Hicks interview with Milly Henry
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Henry was interviewed by Mary A. Hicks in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Henry was on a plantation in Mississippi but was moved to North Carolina when the Union Army approached. She was in Raleigh at the end of the Civil War and saw a Confederate soldier hanged for shooting at the Union forces and then laughing about it.