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- GLC#
- GLC03587.41-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 10 December 1862
- Author/Creator
- Pickett, John Thomas, 1822-1884
- Title
- to John Cripps
- Place Written
- Little Rock, Arkansas
- Pagination
- 3 p. : address ; Height: 21.5 cm, Width: 14.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Discusses the unreliability of the mail. Criticizes the "gentleman from Jerusalem" who oversees the Ministerio de Relaciones and describes the "shabby" treatment extended. Explains how his expenses were cut but is glad Cripps upheld his duty of being a Volunteer Sentinel. Discusses personal news and his "hard campaigning" at Vicksburg as General Breckinridge's Adjutant General. Hopes to be back in Richmond soon to see action and has yet to receive a scratch from battle.
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