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- GLC#
- GLC07460.004-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- November 7, 1862
- Author/Creator
- Wheeler, Lysander, 1837-1917
- Title
- to his parents and sister
- Place Written
- Bowling Green, Kentucky
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 15.5 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
He advises his family not to worry about writing him when he's marching because the mail follows closely behind. Writes that it is sixty-eight miles to Nashville by railroad and there are too many men to transport by train. Some of the men have fallen out since they began marching but he supposes they may have been taken to Missouri.
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