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- GLC#
- GLC02715.048-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- circa February 23, 1863
- Author/Creator
- Epperly, Mary M., fl. 1859-1865
- Title
- to Christian M. Epperly
- Place Written
- Floyd City, Virginia
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 25 cm, Width: 19.8 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Says she heard that all soldiers will come home the fourth of next month. If he does get to come home, she does not want him to go back to the army. Tells him that George has been home nearly three weeks and no one has come to look for him. States that she believes the army is not interested in catching deserters because there are too many of them. She addresses her husband as "Marion" (possibly Epperly's middle name). Top quarter of first page written in very light pencil.
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