- GLC#
- GLC04558.065-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- January 27, 1863
- Author/Creator
- Tillotson, George W., 1830-1918
- Title
- To his wife
- Place Written
- Camp opposite Fredericksburg, [Virginia]
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 19 cm, Width: 11.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Jokes about his wife's hanging his picture and how Burnside's marching orders made him loose weight, wishing he could hire a replacement, remarking that he despises the officer punishing a deserter more than the deserter, telling wife that son Leon should look at his picture "so he will know me."
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