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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Charles W. Gallentine Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gallentine
Abstract

Letters home, 1862-1863, by Charles W. Gallentine of the 7th Illinois Cavalry, from Camp Butler, Springfield, Ill., Jacinto and Corinth, Miss., Memphis and LaGrange, Tenn., and Lawrence Co., Ala., regarding camp life, skirmishes, men killed and wounded, Southern guerillas, northern Copperheads and the draft, Southern plantations and slave attitudes, Union and Confederate prisoners, etc.

Dates: 1861-1863

Henry Rice Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rice H
Abstract

Six letters, Sept. 14-Oct. 15, 1862, from Camp Peoria in Peoria, Ill., from Henry Rice of the 103rd Illinois Infantry to family in Lewistown, Ill., describing military life in the camp. Included with the letters is an envelope addressed to "Mrs. Amory Rice, Lewistown, Fulton County, Illinois," illustrated in red and blue with the seal and motto of the United States

Dates: 1862

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  • Subject: Fulton County (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources X

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Alabama -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
Brothers and sisters -- Correspondence 1
Camp Butler (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Camp Peoria (Peoria, Ill.) -- History -- 19th century 1
Copperhead movement 1