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- GLC#
- GLC04662.064-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1864/4/8
- Author/Creator
- Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?
- Title
- to mother
- Place Written
- Jacksonville, Florida
- Pagination
- 4 p. : + pressed flower
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
He encloses a rose [included] that he picked near his house. His express box arrived almost two months after being sent, "There has been time enough I suppose for it to have reached Constantinople." He likes his new nightshirts. However, the pants are light blue, the color of regimental officers. He needs dark blue pants, the color of the general staff. The steamer "Maple Leaf" was blown up by torpedoes. General Hatch has organized "Boat infantry" to search for any additional torpedoes. Walbridge draws a small picture of a torpedo recovered by this detail and describes its mechanisms. He was assigned to meet a group of Confederate officers, who had offered a flag of truce.
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