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Creator/Title
McCord, William. Letter, 26 September 1861. ALS, 3 pp.
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Mss. C M
Content
A letter on "Illinois - For the Union" stationery from McCord at Paducah, Ky. to his sister Anna McCord at Yates City, Knox County, Ill. McCord, of Knox County, Ill., is a Union soldier of the 41st Regiment, Illinois Infantry, and writes of his regiment's movement from Elmwood, Ill. to St. Louis, Mo. to Paducah, Ky. Of Paducah, he states that he "likes the look of the place first rate but it looks better just across the river [in Illinois]."