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- GLC#
- GLC08165.55-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 25 June 1863
- Author/Creator
- Hutson, Charles J., 1842-1902
- Title
- to Richard W. Hutson
- Place Written
- Shepherdstown, Virginia
- Pagination
- 2 p. :
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Reports progress on the Maryland Road, citing a current boundary of the Potomac River. Comments that General Richard S. Ewell was in Maryland and General A.G. Jenkins was in control of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
Comments that the Union troops are scared, and they should be since General Robert E. Lee is moving forward. Discusses his fellow troops and their treatment by others. Charles was a Corporal in the 1st South Carolina Infantry during the Civil War. Richard was his father. Written a six weeks after the Battle of Chancellorsville and a week before Gettysburg.
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