to Mother

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GLC07205.032
GLC#
GLC07205.032-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
18 August 1861
Title
to Mother
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
4 p. : Height: 13.2 cm, Width: 21 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

He finds Eastern Virginia, where the principle slave market lies, very boring since most people have left upon hearing that an army was approaching. He describes a battle in which one hundred men were wounded and killed. They were greatly outnumbered.

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