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Collection Reference Number GLC03523.14.80
From Archive Folder Collection of Dolphus Damuth, D company, 29th regiment, Wisconsin, infantry 
Title Dolphus Damuth to Maria Damuth writes about news of a "peace movement"
Date January 1865
Author Damuth, Dolphus (fl. 1839-1913)  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Writes to his sister. The morning paper has brought news of "a peace movement…you cant think how the word peace sounds to us we at once begin to build castles in the air." Writes that Jefferson Davis probably "sees no hopes of ever getting his independance [sic]." It is warm in Louisiana and Damuth writes that he can watch "lots of negro men and women at work on the land…fitting it fer a sugar or cotton crop." Many peddler women come to the army camp with liquor hidden under their clothes and attempt to sell it to the soldiers. Damuth suggests that his family subscribe to the Chicago Tribune.
Subjects Civil War  Military History  Union Forces  Union Soldier's Letter  Soldier's Letter  Peace  Confederate General or Leader  Confederate States of America  Agriculture and Animal Husbandry  Cotton  Slavery  African American History  Merchants and Trade  Commerce  Alcohol  Smuggling  Children and Family  Journalism  Women's History  
People Damuth, Dolphus (fl. 1839-1913)  Damuth, Maria (fl. 1862-1865)  
Place written Kennersville, Louisiana
Theme The American Civil War; African Americans; Agriculture; Children & Family; Arts & Literature; Health & Medicine; Women in American History
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