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- GLC#
- GLC03523.08.01-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 19 June 1861
- Author/Creator
- Terry, Robert B., fl. 1861-1865
- Title
- to Father
- Place Written
- West Chester, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 25 cm, Width: 19.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Writes from Camp Wayne telling his father that they were recamped at "West Chester," about thirty miles outside of Philadelphia. Asks him to send his letters to, "Camp Wayne, West Chester, in care of Capt. Martins..." Reports that one of the men on the same train was killed because he was drunk and was struck in the head as they were going under a bridge. Small portion of second page ripped off.
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