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COPPERHEADS FIRE ON SOLDIERS IN INDIANA

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COPPERHEADS FIRE ON SOLDIERS IN INDIANA
Good content war-date A.L.S., 4pp. 4to., Cincinnati, May 21, 1863 in which William Tomlinson writes his daughter of unrest in the area. In part: "...The 'Copperheads' in Indiana are getting bold. Last evening in Indianapolis as a train full of them were leaving the city...they fired into the 'Soldiers House'. The soldiers immediately planted cannon at each end of the depot, and searched all the passengers. They captured from the crown 1,500 revolvers which at $20 a piece, were worth $30,000. That was a good lick, but every man who fired...ought to be shot or hung. Vallandingham is now in close confinement at Fort Warren, where he is to remain during the war...Negligence and drunkeness was the cause of our disaster at [Fredericksburg]. Howard's men on the extreme right had no pickets out, and were boiling coffee, when Stonewall Jackson came upon them...40,000 rebel veterans...We have a General-in-Chief at Washington named Halleck...I wish, for the sake of the army, that Halleck may soon need a coffin ordered...". Very good, with transmittal envelope.