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Smith, Ann ( fl. 1862) to Asa Smith

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03742.08 Author/Creator: Smith, Ann ( fl. 1862) Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 20 July 1862 Pagination: 2 p. ; 18.1 x 11.4 cm. Order a Copy

Written by Ann Smith to her brother Asa Smith in the Union Army. Says she is glad he is doing well. Says "I try & try to imagine how you look but don't succeed very well - If I could only see you for a little while." Goes on to say that "I tell Mother I'm prouder than ever of you." Says Lieutenant H.L. Potter of the 20th regiment has been back home now for a week because of a wound in his leg. Says "he was in the same hospital with you a week or more - he wishes he had seen you." Says that their brother William Wallace Smith was lucky to avoid injury. Is sending him a copy of a newspaper that printed his letter. She says everyone was delighted with it and his bravery. The letter has been cut in the center fold and the two pages are separate.

Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Prisoner of War
Civil War
Military History
Union Forces
Woman Author
Women's History
Children and Family
Injury or Wound
Hospital
Journalism
Bravery
Battle
The American Civil War

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