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- GLC#
- GLC06460
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 28 June 1865
- Author/Creator
- Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872
- Title
- to Leander H. Riddle
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 3 p. : Height: 24.7 cm, Width: 19.7 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Praises a fallen comrade and expresses the need for "care and protection of the widows and orphans of those who have offered up their lives in saving the nation." Comments on the death of General Thomas A. Smythe and Brigadier General Thomas. Written on printed stationery of the Army of the Potomac.
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