- GLC#
- GLC01898.20-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 4 June 1862
- Author/Creator
- Mortimer, Caleb C.E., 1835-1862
- Title
- to his wife
- Place Written
- Gaines' Mills, Virginia
- Pagination
- 3 p. : envelope Height: 20 cm, Width: 12.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Mentions that they have not seen action since the Battle at Hanover Courthouse on 27 May 1862 where a of their men were wounded. States "Mac [General George B. McClellan] is confident of success and means to make a clean sweep of them this time." Written from camp near New Bridge.
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