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- GLC#
- GLC03523.31.09-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 22 August 1861
- Author/Creator
- Blanchard, Ira, 1835-?
- Title
- to Mary (Wright) Kellogg
- Place Written
- Cape Girardeau, Missouri
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 15.3 cm, Width: 25.8 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Blanchard writes to Mary Wright from Camp Tremont outside St. Louis. Thanks her for the magazine she sent him. Reports Confederate General Gideon J. Pillow has a strong army in the state. Says St. Louis is under martial law and a very dangerous place. Informs they are expecting an attack at any time. Letter is faded and the bottom portion of all four pages is missing.
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