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- GLC#
- GLC06451.047-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1862/05/01
- Author/Creator
- Morris, Wilmor W., fl. 1861-1862
- Title
- to: "Much Esteemed Friend."
- Place Written
- Yorktown, Virginia
- Pagination
- 3 p. :
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Wilmor reports that "Niggerdom is a question that is talked over in camp verry much." The men think Congress had better find a way to pay the soldiers at the appointed times. He describes their line of defense, which is within a mile of the Confederates, on "the same ground that Washington had his armey on before the sur[r]ender of Cornwallis." He thinks the Confederates will be surprised when the Union cannons "open the[i]r mouthes an[d] begin to bark at them think of 2000 ball[s] an[d] shells per minut[e]" flying through the air.
Written at Camp Winfield Scott.
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