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- GLC02174.06-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- December 22, 1862
- Author/Creator
- Shifflet, Hillary, 1823-1863
- Title
- to Jemima Shifflet
- Place Written
- Nashville, Tennessee
- Pagination
- 4 p. :
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Shifflet was unhappy to hear that his wife is "striping tobacco for I donte want you to hav to work for noboddy but your self." He has "but one oald shirt and hit [it] is full of holes and no socks a tall." He asks for descriptions of the children and about how things are going at home. He tried to get home for Christmas but he "will hav to take sowbelly and hav a crackers for my Chrismas dinner." He reports that "our men had a mity hard fight in virginia" and claims that "the war wood bin over if oald lincoln had let the negro question alone." He continues "if he [Lincoln] were "in hell and a negro tide to him I wood be glad thar is whar he ont [ought] to be for he is a oald Abolishingist."
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