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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC03523.14.81 |
From Archive Folder | Collection of Dolphus Damuth, D company, 29th regiment, Wisconsin, infantry |
Title | Dolphus Damuth to Maria Damuth responding to her concerns that he might re-enlist and promising that this is not the case |
Date | 22 January 1865 |
Author | Damuth, Dolphus (fl. 1839-1913) |
Document Type | Correspondence |
Content Description | Writes to his sister. Responds to family concerns that he might reenlist and promises this is not the case. He will come home and "take care of you as you intended I would when you gave me a deed of the farm." Warns his brother not to reenlist, since he has served a hundred days in Memphis and "seen a dead rebel and now he ought to stay at home and trot his young one on his knee." Writes about friends of the family. Ends the letter with the warning, "Dont let evryone [sic] see this." |
Subjects | Civil War Military History Union Forces Union Soldier's Letter Soldier's Letter Children and Family Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Land Transaction Death Confederate States of America |
People | Damuth, Dolphus (fl. 1839-1913) Damuth, Maria (fl. 1862-1865) |
Place written | Kennersville, Louisiana |
Theme | The American Civil War; Children & Family; Agriculture; Health & Medicine |
Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
Civil War: Recipient Relationship | Sister |
Civil War: Theater of War | Main Western Theater |
Civil War: Unit | 29th Wisconsin Infantry, D company |