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[UNION SOLDIER’S LETTER]

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[UNION SOLDIER’S LETTER]
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>[UNION SOLDIER’S LETTER] </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>Unusual illustrated letter paper with color lithograph of Richmond, 5”x2¾”, by Charles Magnus, NY. <b>W. M. Kerr</b> writes to his sister. <b>War-date</b> ALS, 3pp, 8vo, Camp Daufin, Oct. 24, 1862. In part: “...<i>I am well as ever I was all the rest of the boys is well but Willer he was took into Washington...he had a touch of the thifoid</i> [sic] <i>fever...Well we left Camp Boas last fryday</i> [sic] <i>and went out to miners hill and picht tents...Their is some talk of a going to Washington as provos gardes</i> [sic]...” More. General toning; light soiling, especially at folds; minor staining, o/w in good condition.</span></p>