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- GLC#
- GLC03523.08.39-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 8 June 1862
- Author/Creator
- Terry, Robert B., fl. 1861-1865
- Title
- to Father
- Place Written
- Fredricksburg, Virginia
- Pagination
- 4 p. : envelope Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 34 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Provides his father with a comprehensive military report. Mentions that General Irvin McDowell has received orders to come across the river and reinforce General George McClellan. McDowell refused, so instead, a portion of General Nathaniel Bank's force had to come. Notes that Richmond is still in enemy possession. States that General George McCall has received a dispatch to proceed directly to Richmond. Speaks of the weather, telling his father that the rain has been so heavy it washed away four of the Rappahannock River's bridges.
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