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- GLC#
- GLC04197.02-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1861/07/22-23
- Author/Creator
- Kelly, James R., fl. 1861-1862
- Title
- to Mary Kelly
- Place Written
- Cheat Mountain, Virginia
- Pagination
- 4 p. : envelope
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Discusses camp life, quality of troops, killing and captured rebels. His regiment has not received any mail since they came to Virginia on July 6th. He writes a description of the mountain and describes an alarm in camp. A group of "miserable Scamps" have been discharged in disgrace. [Apparently, Kelly wrote the circumstances for their disgrace in an earlier letter, not in the collection.] Continued on 7/23/1861. Scouts surprised a "Secessionist Camp" of "44 men armed & a lot of women." Thirty-four of the men were killed and Kelly expects the rest will be hanged.
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