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- GLC#
- GLC03603.309-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 11 August 1864
- Author/Creator
- Coit, Charles M., 1838-1878
- Title
- to his family
- Place Written
- Petersburg, Virginia
- Pagination
- 6 p. :
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Writes that Captain Goodrich has returned to the regiment after recuperating at Annapolis. Comments tha he testified to the good character of Colonel Ward under oath during a hearing by the military commission. Says he put everything in a favorable light. Mentions an order by the War Department that refuses to muster out officers who have served less than three years in their present rank. Says that he feels as if others think of him as a mainstay in the Regiment and also that he is unsure of what he would like to do once he is mustered out.
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