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- GLC#
- GLC03953.01-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 14 April 1865
- Author/Creator
- Sarsons, Eleazer L., 1836-?
- Title
- to his brothers and sisters
- Place Written
- Goldsboro, North Carolina
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 20 cm, Width: 25.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Explains the course of travel that brought him to Goldsboro, North Carolina and his expectation to head to the front. Comments that "this Rebellion is about played out they are in our grasp. Lee has surrendered and Johnson is hemed in...Richmond is ours." Also comments on his quarters, the recent capture of twenty men by guerillas, and his pay.
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