Wilkinson, Frederick W., fl. 1861-1863 to Amanda Wilkinson

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GLC#
GLC03523.13.080-View header record
Type
Traveling Exhibition
Date
February 15, 1863
Author/Creator
Wilkinson, Frederick W., fl. 1861-1863
Title
to Amanda Wilkinson
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
4 p. : envelope Height: 20.7 cm, Width: 12.9 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Written to his wife while on board the steamer Georgia. Explains that they will first go to Newport News, Virginia and then on to North Carolina. Comments on what he can see on the ocean and relates this to life. Writes about the horrors of war and how he longs to be with his wife. He wonders how people will treat the troops once the war is over. Writes his wife again once they have landed at Newport News, Virginia. Notes that it is a pleasant place and that he has received three letters from her. This letter was started on the 14th and finished on the 15th of February

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