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- GLC#
- GLC03053
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 9 June 1865
- Author/Creator
- Burk, David J., fl. 1865
- Title
- to Mrs. Henry Boyer
- Place Written
- Hampton, Virginia
- Pagination
- 3 p. : Height: 20 cm, Width: 25.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Writes about Fort Monroe, where Jefferson Davis was being held. Mentions the letter he received with ten dollars and that his brother Paul (also at the fort) was ill. Notes that Davis will not likely be hanged but states that he ought to be. Comments that "we all live in good hopes that we soon will come home." Written at Fort Monroe
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