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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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