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- GLC#
- GLC04195.19-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 14 August 1863
- Author/Creator
- Moore, John, 1826-1907
- Title
- to Mary Moore Kelly
- Place Written
- Vicksburg, Mississippi
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 20.2 cm, Width: 25.1 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Many men are sick due to the poor climate, and he has sent many of the ill to northern hospitals. Local women have come into camp to ask for food. A Black man tells him about the marriage of their brother Robert, who had been there in Vicksburg two months previously. Robert served as a surgeon in the Confederate Army.
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