Shifflet, Hillary, 1823-1863 to Jemima Shifflet

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GLC#
GLC02174.01-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
December 13, 1861
Author/Creator
Shifflet, Hillary, 1823-1863
Title
to Jemima Shifflet
Place Written
Camp McCook Heart County, Kentucky
Pagination
2 p. :
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Written on patriotic stationery. Shifflet hopes that Johney will be well soon. He got paid today, twenty-three dollars, and "will send you all I can spar." He encourages his wife to persevere until he returns, "if I ever doo." They "expect a fight everday" but "they are in a vary good place now" and he has plenty to eat. Scribbles on verso of second page, delicate, tear along fold in middle.

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