Higgins, Patrick to Fannie Schoonmaker
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02164.09 Author/Creator: Higgins, Patrick Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: no date Pagination: 3 p. ; 19.7 x 24.3 cm. Order a Copy
The letter has the same stamp as letter #8, so it could also have been written while Higgins was fighting in the Peninsular Campaign. Hopes the time will soon come when they will be reunited. Says he takes a great deal of comfort in writing, and therefore hopes to tell her all about his life. Has coughed often and complains of having a bad cold. He is not the only man who is sick; one man in Chasley was left behind on account of his illness. Higgins's company took him in when they found him. Felt very bad upon learning of the death of one T. Taylor.
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