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- GLC#
- GLC02233.22-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 17 May 1863
- Author/Creator
- Wortham, George, fl. 1823-1883
- Title
- to James S. Wortham
- Place Written
- Kinston, North Carolina
- Pagination
- 2 p. : envelope Height: 22 cm, Width: 15 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Writes his father saying his regiment is leaving for Virginia, his application for a furlough was denied, and he is temporarily in command of the regiment. Informed by a General that he "cannot be spared from the field," but he expects to be granted a furlough soon. Wortham is in command of the Regiment because Colonel Washington is sick.
Adds, "P.S. May 19th I have just learned where we are going to. It is Virginia. We have been waiting here since the 17th for transportation and do not know when we can get off - perhaps tonight, perhaps not in two or three days…."
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