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- GLC#
- GLC02159.11-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 25 October 1863
- Author/Creator
- Blackman, Francis G., fl. 1861-1865
- Title
- to Mary Blackman
- Place Written
- Martinsburg, Virginia
- Pagination
- 2 p. : envelope Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 12.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Writes to his mother. "...had a rite smart battle here ...prisons had no arms so they sent them away out of danger..." Describes the hard time they had getting to Martinsburg. Mentions going through New London, Washington, Baltimore, Harpers Ferry and finally Martinsburg. "...and put us in prison...put us on board a transport with 700 conscrips..." Written in pencil.
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