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- GLC#
- GLC02744.136-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- January 27, 1863
- Author/Creator
- Burpee, Thomas Francis, 1830-1864
- Title
- to Mrs. Thomas F. Burpee
- Place Written
- Fredericksburg, Virginia
- Pagination
- 4 p. : envelope Height: 24.5 cm, Width: 19.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
He says some generals have retired and now Hooker heads up their army. Soldiers died from fatigue/exposure, strewn across ground, won't read about it in the papers. Includes January 28, where he reassures his wife about her anxiety about hearing a battle might be near and about the possibility of this death.
Written in camp opposite Fredericksburg
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