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Letter to Cortez C Morse from Chittenango, N.Y

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Letter to Cortez C Morse from Chittenango, N.Y

Description: Colyer's Civil War correspondence, chiefly his letters to his parents, siblings, and friends in Chittenango. The letters discuss war, political, and family news and contain detailed factual accounts of the camp life -- rations, barracks, soldiers' finances, conscripts and substitutes, desertions, drinking, courts martial, hospital, prisons, demobilization, etc.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1865 August 27.
Call number: mssHM 28943-29056
Creator: Colyer, Henry I (approximately 1841-)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Clifford Couch Colyer, 1966-1970.
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