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

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04558.132 Author/Creator: Tillotson, George W., 1830-1918 Place Written: near Petersburg and Richmond, [Virginia] Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 8 May 1864 Pagination: 2 p. ; 20.5 x 13 cm. Order a Copy

Describes leaving New York and traveling to Yorktown without his regiment, journeying back to West Point to join them, and then the trip to Virginia. Briefly mentions battle for a railroad and the unit's transferred to the "seige Corps."

Tillotson, George W., 1830-1918

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