Box 7

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Allotment pay able to CL $27.00 and other financial matters; death of two Rushville boys.

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Request for $10.00 return because wallet was stolen from camp.

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Report of moving to Centerville; possibility of fight soon; Condition of regimen desire to come home, but not without obtaining union of States lack of money.

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Lack of money; unable send money for children; request for stamps; possibility of moving camp again

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Request for $5.00; weather is good.

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Acknowledgement of CL's letter; rumor that Bee has "flanked" Hocker and made him retreat; men are losing faith in Hocker; optimistic viewpoint even though conditions are bad; expecting attack by Stewart's Cavalry. *(Hooker)

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Payment of allotment; praise for Grant; request for CL's opinion of the war.

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Check was enclosed for $25.00; boys in good health; successes of troops.

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30,000 troops joined them at Centerville; Lee is on the move and are our men;" states that he would spend his time and over before He would settle with the South; request for $5.00 to use of Mar..

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Papers include correspondence, deeds and agreements, personal and business accounts, petitions, drafts of speeches, and resolutions, mainly concerning local politics and patronage, the Anti-Masonic Party, abolitionist agitation, temperance, the use of convict labor, pensions for veterans of the American Revolution and the War of 1812, opposition to the Bank of the United States, and land speculation in Michigan, Wisconsin, and other parts of the Midwest; also, correspondence and legal and...