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- GLC#
- GLC02155.102-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 24 May 1863
- Author/Creator
- Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864
- Title
- to Lile Miller
- Place Written
- Fairfax Station, Virginia
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 20 cm, Width: 13.3 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Writes, "... the different Regts keep the People that live around here, they come into camp and gather up all the Bread meat an coffee the Boys do not make use of which is not a little, they are generally women and children, and I must say I should care to have a wife or sister of mine traveling around camp as they do for they must hear and see things in camp which would not Be pleasant to a decent woman..." Goes on to compare the poverty of the area in Virginia to the relative comfort of his hometown (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania). Ironically remarks that he hopes war will not touch home, noting, "god Preserve Penna from ever Becoming what Virginia is, if the Southern People were the instigators of this Rebellion they are Paying the Penalty..."
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