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Walbridge, Charles E. (b. 1842) to Louise Walbridge

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04663.15 Author/Creator: Walbridge, Charles E. (b. 1842) Place Written: St. Helen Island, South Carolina Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 7 March 1863 Pagination: 4 p. Order a Copy

"Gen'l Hunter issued an order yesterday which says that all able bodied Negroes between the ages of eighteen and fifty one, not regularly employed in the Quartermaster and Commissary Departments, or as Officer's servants, shall be drafted, and organized into regiments or brigades."

Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?

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