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- GLC#
- GLC03523.18.52-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 6 March 1865
- Author/Creator
- Morey, Charles C., fl. 1830-1865
- Title
- to father
- Place Written
- Patricks Station, Virginia.
- Pagination
- 3 p. : Height: 20.2 cm, Width: 25.3 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Describes completion of the muster rolls. Reports acknowledgment from his mother of his hard work. Discusses the business of camp, such as raising funds to erect a monument in honor of the 6th corps late and "lamented commander Major General John Sedgwick which is to be erected at West Point," at a cost of $10,000. Also mentions raising money for Honorable Portus Baxter and wife for services to the sick and wounded. Reports that they have spent no less than $8,000 of their own money. Sends a check for $100 and requests his father to cash it and send credit back.
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