Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864 to Lile Miller

GLC02155.107

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GLC#
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Type
Letters
Date
September 21, 1863
Author/Creator
Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864
Title
to Lile Miller
Place Written
Culpeper, Virginia
Pagination
4 p. : Height: 20.3 cm, Width: 12.6 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Miller describes the Virginia landscape, noting that Culpeper is "like all the towns nearby that I have saw in Virginia old fashioned looking and dilapidated nothing neat or tidy about it I wish you were here Dear Lile to go with me to see some of those old farm mansions that was once the house of some Rich Old Virginian, But now are left desolate and forsaken it makes one feel sorrowfull and ask yourself what has caused all this wretchedness, the answer comes war unrelenting war Between two parts of what once was a happy and prosperous union... but I suppose the good man has brought this about for some wise purpose." Wonders whether Andrew Curtin will be reelected as Pennsylvania Governor.

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