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- GLC#
- GLC04558.023-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 15 May 1862
- Author/Creator
- Tillotson, George W., 1830-1918
- Title
- To his wife
- Place Written
- Roanoke Island, North Carolina
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 19.5 cm, Width: 12 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Soldiers leaving on furlough, one of whom "told us that the Dickinson Guards might kiss his [drawing of donkey]...." Describes men pretending sickness to avoid drill, salute for capture of New Orleans. "You must excuse the looks of this sheet for I have had bad luck and had my ink bottle upset twice fooling with the boys." Written at Camp Dickinson.
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