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- GLC#
- GLC03523.09.50-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 24 May 1865
- Author/Creator
- Downs, Thomas H., fl. 1865
- Title
- To Frances Davenport
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 4 p. : envelope
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
One letter from Thomas H. Downs to Frances Davenport dated May 24, 1865. Downs is the surgeon who treated her husband's wounds in the hospital. Informs her that her husband George was taken to the hospital of 3rd Division 2nd Corps by mistake. All of the wounded were removed and taken to Fredericksburg where George survived for a further two days.
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