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[calling card and envelope]

The envelope is addressed to "Miss Clapp." The calling card belongs to Marion Ruth Miller.

GLC09355.036

to brother

The letter includes a note stating this letter was sent in the same envelope as the letter dated 1864/01/05. Asks how the "flour grain and coal business" is. Asks him to tell Joe that he can "cure himself… by just taking a gun and coming out here."...

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[pocketknife]

Navy blue handle. It has only one blade tucked into it.

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[pocketknife]

Milky white handle. Has two different blades, both of which have rusted significantly, tucked into it.

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[handkerchief]

Pink with white lace border. The handkerchief also has along one end a set of pink flowers sewn into the fabric.

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[record of the wound that George Clapp suffered on 1864/09/19]

This document is a record of the wound that George Clapp suffered on 1864/09/19, which was a "right humerus shattered by mini ball." Shows that Clapp was discharged a year later and pensioned in September 1873.

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[fragment of iron shell from a cannonball]

One side is round and would likely be part of the outside of a cannonball. It is likely the piece of shell that was stuck in George Clapp's right arm, wounding him.

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[maroon leather box with small collapsing cup]

Small round leather maroon box with small silver collapsing metal cup inside.

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to parents

Lists all of the things he wants send in his box: "1 pair of blue shirts of the color of blue yard not such a dark blue as you have made as they might fade. 1 pair of boots just like the last pair that Mellon made for me…1 pair of good woolen gloves...

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to parents

Has time to write more now. "We are quite comfortably situated." The bunks are one on top of the other, "steamboat style." Most of the time needed to build it is spent cutting and hauling the wood necessary for it. Considers the last movements before...

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