- GLC#
- GLC03523.52.27-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- December 27, 1863
- Author/Creator
- Kessler, Thomas J., fl. 1843-1868
- Title
- to Elizabeth N. Kessler
- Place Written
- Chicago, Illinois
- Pagination
- 4 p. : envelope Height: 20.6 cm, Width: 25.2 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Writes to his sister from Camp Douglas. Complains about the rainy weather. Describes a dance that the sharpshooters had with the wash women. Requests that she send him his razor when his father sends him a turkey. Discusses the theater and the women showing their knees. The letter has a watermark on the top left hand corner.
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