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- GLC#
- GLC03603.227-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 26 April 1863
- Author/Creator
- Coit, Charles M., 1838-1878
- Title
- to his family
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 4 p. :
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Writes that they marched to Fort Dix. Describes General Corcoran and 6-8,000 troops going on a recognizance mission and retreating when they saw a rebel battery with a few hundred troops manning it. Criticizes other recent military moves and complains about the newspapers giving all the credit to the New York regiments. Requests that a vest be made for him and that his family send a new strap for his field glass.
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