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- GLC#
- GLC07460.033-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 31 May 1863
- Author/Creator
- Wheeler, Lysander, 1837-1917
- Title
- to his parents, [brother-in-law], and sister
- Place Written
- Gallatin, Tennessee
- Pagination
- 7 p. : envelope Height: 19.5 cm, Width: 24 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Writes favorable news from Vicksburg that Grant has captured many prisoners and canons. He spent his birthday on picket while it rained all day and night. Updates his family on camp news and his activities. On a separate sheet dated Sunday evening, Wheeler writes about the upcoming brigade inspection of surplus tents and baggage. He expects to leave for Murfreesboro soon. Writes that pup tents will be used for the summer. Also includes news of freight boats leaving from Louisville to Nashville. Pages five to seven of this letter are a different size from the size given in the extent field.
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