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- GLC#
- GLC03603.280-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- May 31, 1864
- Author/Creator
- Coit, Charles M., 1838-1878
- Title
- to a female relative of Alfred Goddard
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 2 p. :
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Writes that this was a draft of a letter he was preparing for a female relative of Alfred Goddard. Encloses the draft with a letter to is family. Writes detailing Alfred's bravery during battle and his dying wishes to have his possessions shipped to his mother and to thank the company for fighting so well. Notes that he and Alfred had been "brought into the closest communion" during the few months that they were together.
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