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- GLC#
- GLC02455.11-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 5 July 1862
- Author/Creator
- Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862
- Title
- to Alfred F. Sears
- Place Written
- James Island, South Carolina
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 20 cm, Width: 12 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Informs Sears that his "company and effects will be embarked on the Holmes." Two weeks after the Union defeat at the battle of Seccesionville they began evacuating James Island, just off the coast from Charleston. Sears company was sent out on the ship Holmes. Sears is addressed as a colonel, when in fact he was a captain.
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