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- GLC#
- GLC06728.046-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 16 May 1863
- Author/Creator
- Weeks, John F., fl. 1860-1882
- Title
- to his sisters
- Place Written
- Murfreesboro, Tennessee
- Pagination
- 3 p. : Height: 12.5 cm, Width: 20.2 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Has been on picket duty for six days. Writes that "contraniggers" and deserters are coming in fast and wishes his father "had a couple pigs to call him massa." Reports that he has seen some friends. Mentions "Hooker's -----" and explains that the latter term will be used until better informed. Writes that many of the prisoners that went to Richmond are exchanged and returning to their regiments.
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