Shifflet, Hillary, 1823-1863 to Jemima Shifflet

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GLC#
GLC02174.07-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
February 8, 1863
Author/Creator
Shifflet, Hillary, 1823-1863
Title
to Jemima Shifflet
Place Written
Camp Sill, Tennessee
Pagination
2 p. :
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Shifflet received Fanny's ring and will keep it until he goes home, "if I live to git home." He will go home the next time he is paid "if I can git off enny way a tall." His division is "alooking for another big fight in a few days" and has "bin a skirmishing for four days." His regiment must "go on picket ever other day [and] we hav to go on to morrow." He wants "to come home the worst in the world" and says he thinks "the hold [whole] army is tired."

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