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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07205.017 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: Baltimore, MD Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 30 December 1864 Pagination: 2 p. ; 13.2 x 21 cm. Order a Copy

They are currently camped at Locust Point in Chesapeake Peak Bay. They thought they knew what what it was to be a soldier when they left Camp Wheeler but they had no idea what was coming next.

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