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- GLC#
- GLC04558.118-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 11 October 1863
- Author/Creator
- Tillotson, George W., 1830-1918
- Title
- To his wife
- Place Written
- Folly Island, South Carolina
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 21 cm, Width: 13.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Notes that it is his tenth wedding anniversary and writes that the thought of her distance and the time remaining cause "a choaking sensation" and tears. Says that he is the only man in Co. H with a family. Mentions slow siege of Charleston, health, selling his whiskey ration; recruiting officer sent away by commanding officer.
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