- GLC#
- GLC02179.01.025-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- February 18, 1862
- Author/Creator
- McKinney, Erastus R., fl. 1851-1904
- Title
- to his father
- Place Written
- Dover, Tennessee
- Pagination
- 2 p. ; Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 25.4 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
One letter from Erastus R. McKinney to his father, dated February 18, 1862. Details the devastating battle at Fort Donelson, which McKinney missed, but was later assigned to helping the wounded and collecting the dead at the battle site. Did not include an envelope.
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