Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-? to Louise Walbridge

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GLC#
GLC04663.28-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
December 11, 1863
Author/Creator
Walbridge, Charles E., 1842-?
Title
to Louise Walbridge
Place Written
Folly Island, South Carolina
Pagination
6 p. :
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Notes that he received a piece of wedding cake. Discusses the Sanitary Commission, the sinking of the "Weehawken," and an explosion in Fort Sumter, which was followed by Union mortar fire. Sarah sent him a book entitled, "The Wife's Strategy," which he finds "very lively, entertaining, home sort of book . . . ."

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