Cook, Gustave, 1835-1897 to Eliza Cook

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GLC#
GLC02570.27-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
13 August 1862
Author/Creator
Cook, Gustave, 1835-1897
Title
to Eliza Cook
Place Written
Hayneville, Alabama
Pagination
4 p. :
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Cook went to visit family and "I found the whole country in mourning for relations and friends killed at the battles of Seven Pines and Richmond." Includes news about Girard and adds that Walter has been very sick but is improving slowly. He includes a story about Cornelius Sadler who was wounded at Shiloh, began recovering, and fell ill again with a pain in his side. "Dr. Burney of Montgomery examined the locality of the wound and opened a place from which he took a fragment of a shell weighing three and a half ounces. It was under the ribs." He includes new directions for sending him mail through a private citizen who will then send the mail directly to Gustave at his camp.

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