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- GLC#
- GLC02157.08-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- January 29, 1863
- Author/Creator
- Armstrong, George E., fl. 1861-1865
- Title
- to his mother
- Place Written
- Port Hudson, Louisiana
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 19.5 cm, Width: 18.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Contains two letters. The first is undated, by George Armstrong, written to his mother from Port Hudson, Louisiana. Encloses a piece of a rebel flag that he acquired from a Confederate gun boat (not present). The second, on verso, is dated 29 January 1863 and written to an unknown recipient by Etta Reese from Pulaski, Tennessee. Reese's letter contains a fragment of a poem.
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