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- GLC#
- GLC04662.018-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1862/11/3
- Author/Creator
- Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?
- Title
- to mother
- Place Written
- Glouster Point, Virginia
- Pagination
- 4 p. :
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
A southerner came into the picket lines in order to ask that he and his family be allowed to cross into union territory and move north. The order was given to move the family and its property. Walbridge headed the detail to move the man and his property and bought a cow from the man.
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