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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC03859.02 |
From Archive Folder | Collection of Byron E. Churchill |
Title | Byron Churchill to Drazilla Churchill offering encouragement that his brother will be found alive and revealing the toll that disease is having on the company |
Date | 26 July 1862 |
Author | Churchill, Byron (fl. 1862-1900) |
Recipient | Churchill, Drazilla |
Document Type | Correspondence |
Content Description | Churchill learned in his mother's last letter that his brother is missing, and now offers encouragement that he will be found alive. He reveals that "disease is making sad havoc with us at present….[i]n fact I am more afraid of disease than I am of rebil bulits." He explains that only ten men in the company are fit for duty. |
Subjects | Civil War Military History Union Forces Union Soldier's Letter Soldier's Letter Infantry Children and Family Health and Medical Disease Women's History Battle Confederate States of America |
People | Churchill, Byron (fl. 1862-1900) Churchill, Drazilla (fl. 1862-1865) |
Place written | Corinth, Mississippi |
Theme | The American Civil War; 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 | Mother |
Civil War: Unit | 15th Michigan Infantry, A company |