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Tompkins, Charles, fl. 1864 to Henry Jackson Hunt

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02382.027 Author/Creator: Tompkins, Charles, fl. 1864 Place Written: s.l. Type: Note signed Date: 12 May [1864] Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 4.4 cm, Width: 9.9 cm Order a Copy

Battle note, on scrap of paper, asking for cohorns (mortars). Year inferred based on date. Location was probably the Spotsylvania campaign.

Humphries, Charles, fl. 1864
Hunt, Henry Jackson, 1819-1889

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