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- GLC#
- GLC02159.19-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- April 24, 1865
- Author/Creator
- Blackman, Francis G., fl. 1861-1865
- Title
- to Mary Blackman
- Place Written
- Martinsburg, West Virginia
- Pagination
- 3 p. : envelope Height: 19 cm, Width: 12 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Writes to his mother about the war being just about over. "...the Jonnes [Johnnies] keep coming in hear every day ...pitch on them and kill some and drive them of if it wasnt for the soldiers bing hear the Jonnes would not stand much chance..." Mentions some Confederate soldiers [Johnnies] that scouts apprehended. 100,000 dollars was found on one and 5,000 dollars on another. The scouts killed him. On stationary of the U.S. Christian Commission.
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