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- GLC#
- GLC07460.055-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 16 October 1863
- Author/Creator
- Wheeler, Lysander, 1837-1917
- Title
- to his parents, [brother-in-law], and sister
- Place Written
- Nashville, Tennessee
- Pagination
- 4 p. : envelope Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 25.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Reports on some of the activity going on including train guard and the arrival of trains loaded with men which he thinks may be ill or convalescents. Writes that Confederate General Wheeler has not frightened them with his raids. Writes that ten days rations have been put in the fort but will probably be brought out again for the soldiers to eat. Discusses the price of grain and is glad to hear that oats is selling for a good price. Writes to his mother that he has been singing again. Updates his family on some of the other soldiers from his hometown including John Defield who is sick in the field hospital, and the brother of John Burst who lost a leg at Gettysburg.
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