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- GLC#
- GLC03523.03.02-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- December 20, 1861
- Author/Creator
- Bope, John, 1838-?
- Title
- to John Bope Sr.
- Place Written
- Cleveland, Ohio
- Pagination
- 4 p. : envelope Height: 19.4 cm, Width: 23.8 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Bope writes to his father from Camp Wood. Reports on a battle with the Rebels and states that 19 men were killed and more wounded in his regiment. Comments that the Rebels have a camp four miles from him and he is sending his father ninety dollars. Letterhead has a drawing of a lion and donkey facing one another with the phrase "ONE OF US MUST CONQUER" underneath. Envelope has image of Union flag.
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