- GLC#
- GLC03523.23.08-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- January 31, 1863
- Author/Creator
- Allison, William A., fl. 1861-1865
- Title
- to Stockton Bates
- Place Written
- White Oak, Virginia
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 19.8 cm, Width: 26.3 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Describes the excitement of mail call. They will soon receive another new general; "if they keep going down the list, I think I shall have a brush at commander-in-chief before the war is over." Hooker is not very popular; they prefer McClellan. He misses reading material.
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