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to Frank A. Cole

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08291.07 Author/Creator: Place Written: New Britain, CT Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 4 April 1862 Pagination: 3 p. : Height: 13.5 cm, Width: 21.5 cm Order a Copy

Saw his sister the other night. Mentions the nineteenth regiment. Also mentions that someone he knows was killed in the tenth regiment. The tenth regiment has only six hundred men left.

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