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- GLC#
- GLC02163.11-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- March 13, 1863
- Author/Creator
- Edwards, Oliver, 1835-1904
- Title
- to Eunice Lombard Edwards
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 24.7 cm, Width: 19.6 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Replies to his mother from head quarters, 37th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. Relates, "If the young man you wrote of is in Hospital the surg must send for his descriptive lists, if not the surg Gen (Dale) of Boston as we have positive orders not to send them with or to the soldiers. We are busy preparing to attack the Rebs and we shall probably have the bloodiest battle on record. Yet I think I shall live to be united to my home." Notes that Annie (possibly his wife) suffers more in Warsaw, Illinois, than she would in his hometown of Springfield, Massachusetts... I will give you a good night kiss." Requests 75 cents worth of stamps.
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