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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05241.32 Author/Creator: Magie, James K. Place Written: Tennessee Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 13 April 1863 Pagination: 4 p. Order a Copy

"No 9." Written from camp near Franklin. Charley and a few others "who were not paroled but managed to give Morgan the slip" have returned to camp. The camp is anxious to hear news from Charleston, South Carolina. Everyone hopes that the city was taken. He thinks [General William] Rosecrans plans to move forward.

Magie, James K., fl. 1863

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