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- GLC#
- GLC03523.06.09-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- December 8, 1864
- Author/Creator
- Fairchild, Lewis D., 1829-?
- Title
- to Sephronia Fairchild
- Place Written
- City Point, Virginia
- Pagination
- 4 p. : envelope Height: 27 cm, Width: 38.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Fairchild writes to his wife from City Point, Virginia says the siege is progressing slowly. Informs that General William T. Sherman captured Savannah. Discusses his wife joining a sewing society to make clothing for the soldiers and he questions what type of clothes they will make. He misses home and tells his daughters, Eunice and Ally, to work very hard on their writing skills, and promises buy his son Charlie a horse when he returns from the war.
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