Henry, Josiah E., 1840-? to Angeline Henry

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GLC#
GLC03523.07.25-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
March 27, 1864
Author/Creator
Henry, Josiah E., 1840-?
Title
to Angeline Henry
Place Written
Culpeper, Virginia
Pagination
3 p. : envelope Height: 19 cm, Width: 25.8 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Henry writes to his sister from a camp outside Brandy Station, Virginia. Comments on the radical changes in weather. Reports that the army has been reorganized and his corps is a third larger. Expects Union General Ulysses S. Grant to take command. Reports a friend, Willy Rogers, has died of measles. Adds that Mrs. Henry Rogers (perhaps Willy's mother) "...has got a pickanina..."

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