Friedrick, Wartmann, fl. 1863 to Sarah Ogden

GLC06559.114

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GLC#
GLC06559.114-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
10 September 1863
Author/Creator
Friedrick, Wartmann, fl. 1863
Title
to Sarah Ogden
Place Written
Ixonia, Wisconsin
Pagination
3 p. : envelope Height: 26 cm, Width: 21 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Thanks Ogden for sending his son's personal belongings to Wisconsin, and for promising to return his body. Mentions that families making this request usually do not receive the correct body. States, "we place every confidence in you, Madame! That you will certainly be informed and know which the grave of my son is, that our mind may not be grieved more by deception." Enclosed thirty dollars in the letter (not included), for the purchase of an air-tight coffin. In a postscript, asks that she responds to his letter upon its arrival.

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