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- GLC#
- GLC03523.32.40-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 2 December 1864
- Author/Creator
- Sayles, Sumner, fl. 1862-1868
- Title
- to Isora Skinkle
- Place Written
- Nashville, Tennessee
- Pagination
- 4p. : envelope Height: 20.3 cm, Width: 25.4 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Writes to his sister from camp. Mentions that he sent $50 home. Writes that they are building breastworks in case General John Hood attacks them. Comments that the general will receive a warm reception if he attacks for they have a large force of men and artillery. Teases about his health being affected because of a lady named Mill not writing him. Reports that the detachment that was with General William T. Sherman is now with them at their camp. The letter has a watermark on the top left hand corner. Letter has an image and the words, "E Pluribus Unum."
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