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Collection Reference Number GLC04662.068
From Archive Folder Charles E. Walbridge Collection 
Title Charles E. Walbridge to his mother reporting the events of the Battle of Cold Harbor and offering advice on financial matters
Date 2 June 1864
Author Walbridge, Charles E. (b. 1842)  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description He would like to be with Grant's army. He advises his mother on financial affairs, to sell some property and invest the money in government bonds. He gives the interest of the bonds in greenbacks as $492, and in gold as $800. He gives the recent report of a battle [Cold Harbor], but adds that he must wait until he receives the New York papers before he knows what really happened.
Subjects Civil War  Military History  Union Forces  Union Soldier's Letter  Soldier's Letter  Army of the Potomac  Union General  Finance  Land Transaction  Battle  Banking  Battle of Cold Harbor  Women's History  
People Walbridge, Charles E. (fl. 1842-1866)  
Place written Bermuda Hundred, Virginia
Theme The American Civil War; Banking & Economics
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: Theater of War Main Eastern Theater  
Civil War: Unit 100th New York Volunteers, H Company