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- GLC#
- GLC02174.08-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- February 13, 1863
- Author/Creator
- Shifflet, Hillary, 1823-1863
- Title
- to Jemima Shifflet
- Place Written
- Cap Sill, Tennessee
- Pagination
- 3 p. : Height: 20.4 cm, Width: 12.4 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Shifflet went out with a forage team today and they are "as tired as I am of the war." He declares that "this onholy war wood a bin over if oald Lincoln wood a let the negros alone I wish he had forty the blackest negroes in the South tide to him." He describes his shock at how the soldiers steal from local farmers and was especially upset when it happened to a "poor widow woman with fore little children…she beg[ged] them to not take her things for her little children wood starve if tha took her provishion but tha went ahead and took."
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