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Unknown to Charles Burpee

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02744.358 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: Willismantic,CT Type: Typed letter signed Date: 11 July 1913 Pagination: 1 p. ; 22.8 x 29.3 cm. Order a Copy

He writes that he was not on guard the night that Dr. David Wright may have tried to escape.

Burpee, Thomas F., fl. 1861-1865

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