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- GLC#
- GLC06728.064-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- January 31, 1864
- Author/Creator
- Weeks, John F., fl. 1860-1882
- Title
- to his parents
- Place Written
- Kingston, TN
- Pagination
- 3 p : envelope Height: 12.7 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Complains about the lack and quality of food at camp. Writes that corn meal and beef bones are the primary sustenance and that the beef the soldiers eat "would stagger an American's appetite". Reports that the farthest East he's been is Dandridge, forty miles east of Knoxville, TN. Complains that he has not heard from his family since Mission Ridge and wonders why they haven't written. Describes the area he is in as very rocky and mountainous; not suitable for him.
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