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Donahue, Thomas, fl. 1863 to: Almira Winchell

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04706.09 Author/Creator: Donahue, Thomas, fl. 1863 Place Written: Richmond, Virginia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 9 June 1864 Pagination: Order a Copy

Written from camp "in front of" Richmond. Reports that the battery left Brandy Station on 4 May and has been fighting every day since then. Writes about the entrenchments around Petersburg: "Grant has drove them into their breast works around the City and I think that he is a Going to Come Vicksburg on them. [O]ur works and the Rebels are So Close together that they Can Stone each other."

Winchell, Almira, fl. 1862-1865
Donahue, Thomas, fl. 1863

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