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Date Created
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to wife and children

13 October 1862

Boston, John W., fl. 1862-1865

very faded. would like to come home once more before he goes to Dixie. promises to do his duty as a soldier.

GLC09315.02
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to wife and children

14 December 1862

Boston, John W., fl. 1862-1865

has come down with a cold. says he is in a dangerous place. says the only women he sees are "nigger wenches, and I hate them, every once and a while I see a white woman..." would like to be with her and the children.

GLC09315.05
Collection Item
Header Record

[Collection of Union private John W. Boston] [Decimalized .01- .52]

1862-1865

Boston, John W., fl. 1862-1865

52 articulate letters of Union Pvt. John W. Boston, Company A, 81st Ohio Volunteers, between October 1862 and July 1865. Describes fighting in Sherman's Atlanta Campaign at Corinth and Resaca; also describes the March to the Sea. "[Camp Limy 10/13/62...

GLC09315
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to wife and children

4 December 1862

Boston, John W., fl. 1862-1865

front page torn. writes that he is sending Mary a locket and will be sending the boys something as well. tells the story of an orderly who shot a captain in another company.

GLC09315.03
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to wife and children

2 December 1862

Boston, John W., fl. 1862-1865

writes they have to survive on half rations.

GLC09315.06

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