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- GLC#
- GLC06728.072-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 2 June 1864
- Author/Creator
- Weeks, John F., fl. 1860-1882
- Title
- to his sister Ettie Weeks
- Place Written
- Georgia Wilderness
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 12.7 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Writes that they have been under musketry attack for eight days, but their works have been a safe place. Hopes that more one-year men will be drafted into the war. Asks his father about the late quotations of gold and how it will affect their interests. Reports that the 15th Corps. took position on the left to relieve Hooker who is moving into Marietta.
Also reports that during this campaign, the regiment has lost 83 men killed and wounded.
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