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Tillotson, George W., 1830-1918 To his wife

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04558.032 Author/Creator: Tillotson, George W., 1830-1918 Place Written: Roanoke Island, North Carolina Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 19 July 1862 Pagination: 4 p. : Height: 20 cm, Width: 12.5 cm Order a Copy

Still in hospital. Family: "...how I do wish Dear Lib that I was at home to share your troubles, anxiety, sorrows, and to relieve you in some of your phisical [sic] labors.... How I tremble to think how near Georgiana also had been to the brink of the grave." Recounting his own problems with typhoid, increasing health, lack of news from regiment. Written at Camp Dickinson.

Tillotson, George W., 1830-1918

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