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- GLC#
- GLC03523.31.03-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 27 May 1861
- Author/Creator
- Blanchard, Ira, 1835-?
- Title
- to Mary (Wright) Kellogg
- Place Written
- Joliet, Illinois
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 20.2 cm, Width: 25.6 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Blanchard writes to Mary Wright from Camp Goodell. Expresses gratitude for her letter and says when the mail arrives, the soldiers "...flock to the office like sheep." Says once the letters are read the band plays "the girl I left behind." Reports his regiment is waiting to be received into the service of the general government, and if refused, they will return home next month. Mentions they have received their uniforms and muskets from Harper's Ferry. Discusses a large fight that took place in camp resulting in a lot of structural damage.
Explains some of the troops were unhappy with the action of their officers.
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