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- GLC#
- GLC03523.08.17-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- September 16, 1861
- Author/Creator
- Terry, Robert B., fl. 1861-1865
- Title
- to Sister
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 4 p. : envelope Height: 18.2 cm, Width: 22.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Relays, "That account of the affair at big falls is all a big lie they put in anything to make the papers sell. Their was no musketry shot returned by our Regiment. The Artillery only answered them the next day and then they did not return the fire." Continues on about the newspapers, commenting "I reckon the newspapers had another blow in about that affair down the falls church. We was called out but only get down as far as the chain bridge before the fight was over." Mentions that she will probably "here tell of a Movement of McClellan that will quite surprise you. In his speech to the soldiers he said you stick to me and I stick to you and I guarantee their will be no more Bulls Run affair." Written on red and blue bordered stationery with a small image of a woman and the words, "Union and Prosperity" in the top left corner.
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