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Creator/Title
Galbraith, Robert A., d. 1862. Letter, 16 November 1862. 4 pp.
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Mss. C G
Content
Galbraith, a private in Co. E, 86th Ill. Regt., writes to his parents while convalescing in a field hospital in Bowling Green, KY. Hears that "Democrats are going to settle the war". Has lost any feelings of 'abolishionism' that he may have had and bears a grudge against 'nigers' who serve regt. officers because they are able to ride horses and often refuse to fill canteens of enlisted men.