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- GLC#
- GLC04662.013-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1862/8/25
- Author/Creator
- Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?
- Title
- to his mother
- Place Written
- Point Lookout, Maryland
- Pagination
- 4 p. :
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
He is feeling better and expects to return to his unit in about a week. Since he does not know where they are, he will have to go to Washington to learn their location. A gang of men are putting up a large building, which Walbridge thinks may be a very large hospital. [The men may have been building the prisoner of war camp that would open on the island.] He claims it is a fine location in the summer but imagines the winter would be rather bleak.
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