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- GLC#
- GLC03742.10-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- March 9, 1862
- Author/Creator
- Smith, William Wallace, fl. 1861-1862
- Title
- to Asa Smith
- Place Written
- Halls Hill, Virginia
- Pagination
- 3 p. : Height: 19.8 cm, Width: 12.6 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Written by William Wallace Smith to his brother Asa Smith. References receiving Asa's letter and the "smoking cap" that came with it. Says nothing is going on, but says it won't be long because every man is to be provided with 60 rounds of ammunition. Tells him about picket duty. Says he went to Falls Church and went to the church that George Washington helped to build. Says "it is a square brick building [that] does not look much like a church on the outside." Updates him on mutual friends. Embossed American eagle on the first page of the letter with the words "Union and Constitution" also embossed. Written at Camp Wilson.
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