- GLC#
- GLC04662.077-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1864/9/4
- Author/Creator
- Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?
- Title
- to mother
- Place Written
- Bermuda Hundred, Virginia
- Pagination
- 4 p. :
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
They have received word of the capture of Atlanta. His train and depot were inspected and Col. Howard said, "he never before saw a depot in as good order..." Grant's army has taken possession of the Weldon railroad. He is trying to find a substitute for his brother George. Walbridge had hoped to send a colored man up to Buffalo to take George's place, but General Butler forbid any black man from leaving the department. He hopes a friend of his can find a white substitute.
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