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Wright, Augustus Romaldus, 1813-1891 to Miller A. Wright

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02691.11.054 Author/Creator: Wright, Augustus Romaldus, 1813-1891 Place Written: Alabama Type: Autograph letter signed Date: February 7, 1864 Pagination: 3 p. : Height: 20.3 cm, Width: 26 cm Order a Copy

Writes from Alabama. "[G]reat scarcity in the land…we are where we hear nothing & know nothing. I have tried to keep as unobserved as possible…It now takes $100 to buy a bunch of thread…Charlie has been made clerk of Wheeler's ordnance he writes it is "bomb proof place: and for the first time he cries with the wiley fire eaters hurra for the war…The desertions from the army are awful I don't see how they keep an army together at all. It is strange our leaders don't see the hand writing on the wall & make peace on the best terms they can get…Scouts still threaten occasionally to kill me but I don't think they will execute…."

Wright, Augustus Romaldus, 1813-1891
Wright, Miller A., fl. 1861-1864

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