Manuscript Database
Creator/Title
Freeman, George T. d. 1863 To "Dear Mother" (Mrs. Sarah B. Freeman) . Camp Boyle ,Feb. 20, (1862). 11 pp. A.L.S.
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Mss. C F
Content
Letter from Private George T. Freeman Co. E. 21st Ky . Vol . Inf ., commenting on recent victories, the capture of Fort Donelson, etc.; his regiment still at Columbia; the colonel very low and the regiment has suffered a great deal from disease; many new graves around the place; has poor opportunity to write letters; the soldier's life a hard one. P.S. Death of Col. (Ethelbert L.) Dudley. Written on stationery bearing portrait of McClellan and motto, "Union for ever." Accompanied by telegram from Thomas M. Freeman to Sarah B. Freeman, dated at Annapolis, Md., March 16, (1863), announcing the death of her son. In : Misc. Papers