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- GLC#
- GLC03523.50.19-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 1861-1865
- Title
- [religious verse] [in German]
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 3 p. : Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 26.6 cm
- Language
- German
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Appears to be a prayer. Throughout the document the Trinity and Mary are called upon. There is a passage at the end of the document that is written in English. "A true & approbiate [sic] fever knowledge that whosoever has this letter in his house no fire will Break out in the hous [sic] Whosoevers has this letter with him or in his house is safe before the sicke & Pestilence." No date or signature is given. Possibly written by Russell during his last days of sickness.
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