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James W. Keeble was a schoolteacher from Mathews County, Virginia who took a job as Professor of Tactics at Madison college,
Sharow, Mississippi. The 1860 census lists his parents as Humphrey H. and Sarah Keeble.
The Letter, James W. Keeble to Unidentified, consists of three pages, filled front and back, telling an unidentified friend
about his new life in Mississippi. Included is mention of a Virginian family named the Montagues and a brief paragraph about
the possibility of Virginian secession and Keeble's determination to fight for Virginia.