Cook, Gustave, 1835-1897 to Eliza Cook

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GLC#
GLC02570.08-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
18 October 1861
Author/Creator
Cook, Gustave, 1835-1897
Title
to Eliza Cook
Place Written
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Pagination
4 p. :
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Cook has kept up his correspondence with the "Houston Telegraph" regarding the daily camp lives of the soldiers. He reports that he didn't have any time to write Eliza and asked his friend John to address her in his letter to Lou (wife or sister?). He did so because,
"We feared that some of the boys would write flaming war letters back and alarm you unnecessarily and John wrote Lou to that effect."
Instructs Eliza to tell the children "…all about the wars, the big guns and [illegible] and everything."
Was written near Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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