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Tyndell, S. M., fl. 1862 to Isaac J. Carol

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04738 Author/Creator: Tyndell, S. M., fl. 1862 Place Written: Charlottesville, Virginia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 26 June 1862 Pagination: 2 p. : address ; Height: 24.7 cm, Width: 19.6 cm Order a Copy

Discusses the Confederate home front, military worries, and crops. "When the present army is wasted none other can be raised... What then! Military dictation? Then emancipation; what then is left to us." Written at Castle Hill.

Tyndell, S. M., fl. 1862

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