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- GLC#
- GLC03523.13.013-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 11 September 1861
- Author/Creator
- Wilkinson, Frederick W., fl. 1861-1863
- Title
- to Amanda Wilkinson
- Place Written
- Arlington, Virginia
- Pagination
- 4 p. : envelope Height: 19.4 cm, Width: 12 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Compliments his wife saying that the last letter he received from her was the best she has ever written. He is impressed with her penmanship and her composition and wishes for her to keep practicing by writing to him. Says he is not worthy of all the praise his wife gives him in front of her friends. Notes that it will be a "great while" before he is promoted. Another one of his fellow soldiers was killed today. A small note is also included stating that 16 dollars are enclosed instead of the original 17.
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