Sayles, Sumner, fl. 1862-1868 to Isora Sayles

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GLC#
GLC03523.32.20-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
7 August 1863
Author/Creator
Sayles, Sumner, fl. 1862-1868
Title
to Isora Sayles
Place Written
Natchez, Mississippi
Pagination
4 p. : envelope Height: 20 cm, Width: 24.4 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Informs his sister that there is no reason why he should not share his letters from her with the other boys. Comments that the information given is sure to leak out somehow anyway and that it is only fair that he shares his letters because the men share their letters with him. Says that if there is anything really bad in the letters that he will tear them up. Reports that they recently went on a foraging exhibition by steamboat. Comments that they went to one plantation and made the "Negroes" help load the boat with corn and cattle. Request that she sends him some stamps.

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