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1862/12/20
Morris, Joseph W., fl. 1862-1863
to: Wilmor W. Morris.
Joseph has seen several family members and sends word that Aunt Sally is dead. He gives news of the relatives and sends their addresses.
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1863/04/16
to: George M. Morris.
Joseph would like to know how Jesse felt when a letter from his wife got home before he did and how their mother reacted when she learned that he was married.
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1861/12/07
Morris, Wilmor W., fl. 1861-1862
to: "Dear Brothers."
Wilmor writes his brothers that Jo will send three likenesses for Wilmor's mother, for Susan, and for Elizabeth. Jesse said to tell George he is too busy drilling to write George back. Wilmor asks after the sheep and cows and gives news of family...
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to: Susannah L. Morris; John Morris.
Morris writes to his sister about guard duty, and to his father [in a separate letter on the same leaf]. Wilmor tells his father that "this regiment has the most stri[n]gent laws of any in the brigade you must toe the mark or the guard house is your...
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1862/02/27
to: Susannah L. Morris.
Wilmor conjectures that "we will come home when we leave here fore the rebles are getting whip[p]ed every where thay meet our boys." He ate at a table for the first time since leaving home, at the home of a "pritty little plump girl" he met near the...
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