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- GLC#
- GLC04662.003-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1862/3/12
- Author/Creator
- Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?
- Title
- to his mother
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 4 p. :
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
His journey to Washington. He describes a "society" in Philadelphia which met them at the train station and furnished them with a home made meal complete with crockery and white table cloths. Indicates that the regiment was well received at every place it traveled through except Baltimore where "we had nary a cheer and I thought everybody looked as if they were sorry to see us." He spends his first night in a "wall tent". [GLC 4663, # 1 contains an excellent description of the capitol building.]
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