- GLC#
- GLC07705.018-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 30 August 1861
- Author/Creator
- Jackson, Richard H., fl. 1861-1865
- Title
- to Father
- Place Written
- Newport News, Virginia
- Pagination
- 6 p. : docket ; Height: 20.2 cm, Width: 25 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Since General Wool took over, things have improved greatly, down to the cook. He witnessed a naval battle between the Frigate Savannah and a Secession gun-boat. He writes that he received more clothes including a regular's fatigue suit. He now longs for a brush with the enemy,
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