Box 4

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Four letters, two are just dealer description, not the actual letter, all are copies. Discuss Fort Payne, Kentucky, Bird's Point Missouri, drunkenness, buying a horse, Pittsburgh Landing, Tennessee River, Cairo, illness of men.Number of pages: 8 pages of photocopies

Scope and Contents Six letters, all are copies. Discuss taking musket balls from trees as keepsakes, Continental Hotel in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, Cousin Sammy Scull, taking classes in Philadelphia and wondering about being able to afford a graduating, visiting the mint to see money being made and the Academy of Sciences, also other sites of Philadelphia including the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall. Mentions church attendees in their furs, wishing he and his wife were rich to travel, wanting to be home...

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Nine letters, several are just dealer description not the actual letter, all are copies. Discuss troop movements, homesickness, battle at Franklin Tennessee, botched hanging of Confederate spies, taking over a confederate camp, with map, encouragement to daughter to keep up studies,Number of pages: 17 pages of photocopies

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Six letters, all are copies. Discuss wounded soldiers, hunger, measles, mumps, smallpox, blistered feet, Confederate deserters, Chattanooga Tennessee, Chickamauga Station battle, sketches of soldier life.Number of pages:21 pages of photocopies

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Seven letters, several are just dealer description not the actual letter, all are copies. Discuss a brother digging grave for another brother, re-electing Lincoln, citizen rations, Georgia, bringing decaying remains in from the battlefield, church.Number of pages: 17 pages of photocopies

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Five letters, several are just dealer description not the actual letter, all are copies. Discuss Chattanooga, starving rebels, buying a house, bad vaccines causing the soldiers sores, retrieving dead from the field.Number of pages:18 pages of photocopies

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Nine letters, several are just dealer description not the actual letter, all are copies. Discuss capturing several thousand pounds of tobacco and prisoners, amputations, women, battle of Kennisaw Mountain, schoolwork of his daughter, Atlanta,Number of pages: 16 pages of photocopies

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Five letters, all are copies. Discuss taking in rebel wounded and dead, severe wounds, maggots in wounds, shot to the head of Colonel, Van Vleck, rebels destroying millions of dollars of property as they retreated, people of the South relating to Yankees,Number of pages: 23 pages of photocopies

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Six letters, all are copies. Discuss cold weather sleeping, soldier life, lack of pay, occupying a wealthy plantation mansion, U.S. Christian Commission, Christmas.Number of pages: 12 pages of photocopies

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Nine letters, all are copies. Discuss camp life, battles, capture of Richmond and Petersburg, end of the war,Number of pages: 23 pages of photocopies