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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07205.032 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 18 August 1861 Pagination: 4 p. : Height: 13.2 cm, Width: 21 cm Order a Copy

He finds Eastern Virginia, where the principle slave market lies, very boring since most people have left upon hearing that an army was approaching. He describes a battle in which one hundred men were wounded and killed. They were greatly outnumbered.

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