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- GLC#
- GLC00653.01.18-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- May 20, 1863
- Author/Creator
- Figures, Henry Stokes, 1844-1864
- Title
- to Ma
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 3 p. : Height: 14.2 cm, Width: 21.8 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
He asks for a pair of shoes. He met a Colonel Aldredge who knows his father and he saw two Yankee prisoners. Henry apparently did not get the furlough, as he asks for the shoes and the gloves he would have received "had I got [it]." 5 soldiers deserted his unit, and General Hood sent the cavalry after them, but have not come back yet. Also, apparently his "appointment" he has been waiting on is to be the Adjutant of the 4th Alabama. In fact, he signs the letter with "Acting Adjuctant" of the 4th Alabama Vols. Henry also saw a few Union prisoners who had gotten sick and were left behind by their army.
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