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Cook, Gustave, 1835-1897 to Eliza Cook

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02570.13 Author/Creator: Cook, Gustave, 1835-1897 Place Written: Bowling Green, Kentucky Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 19 January 1862 Pagination: 1 p. + addr. Order a Copy

Short note jotted down at daybreak. Writes that he is enclosing a letter. Says he has rheumatism in his arms "which is not very troublesome."Written at Camp Johnson.

Cooke, Gustave, fl. 1861-1865

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