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- GLC#
- GLC04558.106-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 20 July 1863
- Author/Creator
- Tillotson, George W., 1830-1918
- Title
- To his wife
- Place Written
- Gettys Point, Virginia
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 20 cm, Width: 12.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Resting and settling down after the marches. On politics: "Your Copperheads up ther[e] I see have been kicking up quite a rumpus, but they will get sick of it, if they are not already. Didnt know one spell but what they would spite 'Massa Greely's' establishment entirely so that you would loose the chance of getting your favorite papers to read. Hip, hip, Hurrah! bulley!" Received pictures; worries about Leon's thin appearance and praises Georgiana's growing-up. Mentions Lucy. Talks about terms of the draft.
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