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- GLC#
- GLC00687.011-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- November 18, 1864
- Author/Creator
- Powell, George May, 1835-1905
- Title
- to Emma C. Small
- Pagination
- 6 p. : Height: 25.8 cm, Width: 20.1 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
He writes of the power of submitting to the will of God. He describes his month-long furlough spent writing and publishing a speech for the campaign about taxation, "Facts and Figures for the Hour." He refers to the "Iron Brigade," Wisconsin troops organized by McClellan who voted for Lincoln, the Indiana conspiracy, visiting the Army of Potomac and of the James, as well as a new religious interest among army troops.
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