Coit, Charles M., 1838-1878 to his family
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03603.230 Author/Creator: Coit, Charles M., 1838-1878 Place Written: Suffolk, Virginia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 10 May 1863 Pagination: 2 p. Order a Copy
Writes that they are all excited by the news about [Joseph] Hooker. Coit believes that the end of the war will involve the Army of the Potomac. Notes that he shared his brother's plan to go to the Scientific School in New Haven with Colonel Harland. Says that Harland's reaction was that George would get a much more valuable education there than he would at Yale.
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