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- GLC#
- GLC03523.52.41-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- March 29, 1864
- Author/Creator
- Kessler, Thomas J., fl. 1843-1868
- Title
- to his friends
- Place Written
- Chicago, Illinois
- Pagination
- 4 p. : envelope Height: 20.6 cm, Width: 25.3 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Writes to his friends from Camp Douglas. Discusses the weather. Describes how green everything is in Maryland. Complains about another soldier exaggerating his sickness to get a discharge. Comments the other soldier should have been discharged a while ago. Notes he will not live long because he is consumptive (tuberculosis). The letter has a watermark on the top left hand corner. Letter is addressed to his friends but envelope is addressed to his father, A. P. Kessler.
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