- GLC#
- GLC04558.072-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- March 3, 1863
- Author/Creator
- Tillotson, George W., 1830-1918
- Title
- To his wife
- Place Written
- Newport News, Virginia
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 19.5 cm, Width: 11.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Inspection, cleaning his equipment and scrubbing his buttons; jokes about needing lectures from his wife "Maybe I am a sesech Democrat, but dont know guess [sic] I am straddle of the fence mit [sic] one foot on both sides." Expresses skepticism about the war's early end.
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