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- GLC#
- GLC02174.04-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- August 19, 1862
- Author/Creator
- Shifflet, Hillary, 1823-1863
- Title
- to Fanny Shifflet
- Place Written
- Winchester, Tennessee
- Pagination
- 4 p. :
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Shifflet encourages his daughter to "be a good girl and mind your mother" and to "go to school ever chance you git." He asks her to look after the other children, Patsy, Mariah, and Jonney and promises to send money so that Fanny may have new clothes. He heard "not five minets ago that thar is was one hundred and eighty thousand [Confederates] a coming rite on us so we will hav to fall back to nashville in short order." He expects "some hot times soon" but says that he "shant fight much moore my self." Written at Camp Boiling Fork.
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