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Collection Reference Number GLC03523.26.12
From Archive Folder Collection of Charles Woolston, 3rd regiment, Pennsylvania, cavalry 
Title Benjamin A. Woolston to Maria Woolston reporting that he believes Charles will pull through
Date 1 June 1865
Author Woolston, Benjamin A. (fl. 1864-1865)  
Recipient Woolston, Maria  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Writes to his wife about their son, Charles Woolston, a soldier sick with typhoid fever in the hospital whom he went to go visit. States that Charles is still very sick but he believes he will pull through and hopes to bring him home. Says he is delirious. Writes that it cost him $17 to get to the hospital in Richmond, Virginia from Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Informs that Charles will be discharged from the military soon. On stationary of the U.S. Christian Commission.
Subjects Children and Family  Women's History  Union Forces  Military History  Civil War  Disease  Health and Medical  Typhoid Fever  Hospital  Finance  Charity and Philanthropy  
People Woolston, Benjamin A. (fl. 1864-1865)  Woolston, Maria (fl. 1864-1865)  Woolston, Charles (fl. 1864-1865)  
Place written Richmond, Virginia
Theme Health & Medicine; Children & Family; The American Civil War
Sub-collection Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Additional Information Charles Woolston enlisted as a private on 7 October 1864 in Company U, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, Pennsylvania.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945
Civil War: Recipient Relationship Wife  
Civil War: Theater of War Main Eastern Theater  
Civil War: Unit 3rd Pennsylvania cavalry, U Company