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Creator/Title
Anonymous To Dear Mother, n.p. Camp at Bridgeport, Alabama, 3 Oct. 1863. ALS, 31/2pp
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Mss. C A
Content
A soldier named Dick writes his mother relating his journey by train from Virginia to Alabama by way of Maryland, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Were welcomed along the way by men and women; given food; and generally "lived high." Liked Indiana best. Believes Indiana can furnish more pretty girls than any other state. Camped on the bank of the Tennessee River. The weather is very pleasant, likes it better here than in Va. (Further research reveals that the writer was Pvt. Richard J. McCadden of Co. G of the 154th New York Infantry.)