Henry, Josiah E., 1840-? to Angeline Henry
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03523.07.25 Author/Creator: Henry, Josiah E., 1840-? Place Written: Culpeper, Virginia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 27 March 1864 Pagination: 3 p. : envelope Height: 19 cm, Width: 25.8 cm Order a Copy
Henry writes to his sister from a camp outside Brandy Station, Virginia. Comments on the radical changes in weather. Reports that the army has been reorganized and his corps is a third larger. Expects Union General Ulysses S. Grant to take command. Reports a friend, Willy Rogers, has died of measles. Adds that Mrs. Henry Rogers (perhaps Willy's mother) "...has got a pickanina..."
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