Damuth, Dolphus, fl. 1839-1913 to Maria Damuth

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GLC#
GLC03523.14.79-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
8 January 1865
Author/Creator
Damuth, Dolphus, fl. 1839-1913
Title
to Maria Damuth
Place Written
Kennersville, Louisiana
Pagination
4 p. : envelope Height: 12.5 cm, Width: 20.5 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Writes to his sister from a camp outside of New Orleans. The soldiers often go into the city. Damuth is going to get photographs taken. Some of the men taken prisoner the year before at Red River are now in the city. Of one of them, Damuth writes, "he has suffered more than to die." Many of the men in prison died of starvation and exposure to the elements, but some men "found relation in the Rebel army" and were protected by family members.

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