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- GLC#
- GLC03523.11.02-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 12/23/1862
- Author/Creator
- Bogart, Abram, fl. 1825-1865
- Title
- to Mary M. Bogart
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 4 p. : envelope Height: 20 cm, Width: 25.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Reports to his wife, "with pleasure," that he is well and hopes that she is the same. Expresses that he is "sorry that paper and time is so scarce with you up there that it takes two of you to fill a half sheet." Tells her that he is going to Georgetown tomorrow to visit some of the sick boys. Asks that when she writes to him next time that she writes a full sheet. Signs the letter off by stating, "so you se how us soldiers are useed more like beasts than men." Letter is addressed to Masonville in Delaware County, New York.
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