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- GLC#
- GLC03836.45-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 22 March 1863
- Author/Creator
- West, Lewis H., 1829-?
- Title
- to R. West
- Place Written
- Charleston, South Carolina
- Pagination
- 3 p. : docket ; Height: 20.2 cm, Width: 12.6 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Says nothing has occurred since his last letter. Reports that the Confederates are improving their defenses to the harbor. Says "By the time they have completed their last battery, I presume there will be no longer any reasonable excuse for delaying the attack." Says they captured a small ship that had lost its way and drifted out to sea. Says he was able to speak to the captured sergeant and 8 privates. Written while aboard the USS "Ladona"
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