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- GLC#
- GLC03836.75-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 25 September 1864
- Author/Creator
- West, Lewis H., 1829-?
- Title
- to R. West
- Place Written
- St. Catherine's Sound, Georgia
- Pagination
- 4 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
References her latest letter. Says he lives in the "usual humdrum manner." Says the ship stays close to shore and he hunts on the beach. Says he has also been fishing. Says he has been praised by Admiral Dahlgren for his discovery of the channel at St. Catherine's. Lauds Farragut's tactics at Mobile. Says most of his crew will be out of the service in several weeks and assumes he will be getting a new batch of "greenhorns." Says he will be in the war until it ends. Asks her to send coffee. Written while aboard the USS "Fernandina".
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