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Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864 to Lile Miller

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02155.033 Author/Creator: Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864 Place Written: Virginia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 9 February 1862 Pagination: 4 p. ; 19.3 x 12 cm. Order a Copy

Written at Camp Pierpont to his wife. Complains about the rain and that Lile, his wife, does not write to him enough. Writes, "...the government has opened a Recruiting office at McCalls head quarters for the Regular Army any volunteer enlisting there for five years is to get one hundred dollars Bounty... and a furlough for sixty days and i have heard they are enlisting verry fast..."

Miller, Michael M., fl. 1861-1864

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