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- GLC#
- GLC00687.004-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- September 6, 1861
- Author/Creator
- Powell, George May, 1835-1905
- Title
- to Mine ver mooch freu
- Place Written
- Cincinnati, Ohio
- Pagination
- 6 p. : Height: 20.3 cm, Width: 12.7 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
He reports the work of the past month is building guns for the war. He would like a copy of the Journal with her poem, and he encloses a program of an event he attended (not extant). As the men await an impending battle, Major McCrea commented at prayer service that they are on the threshold of the apocalyptic battle between Gog and Magog. It is time to act and be aware of events.
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