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Camp near Estell Springs, Tenn.
August 30th, /63
Dear Sister
I received your kind and welcome letter of the 23rd while on Piquet yesturday Dick came out to my post and brought it. Also Orins and the first motion that I made was ground arms, and you may be sure, that Piqueting did not ocupy a verry large place in my mind untill their contents were Perused. which were I am happy to say verry satisfactory. truly what A great blessing is health. It is all everything. for when I know that you are well. I know that things still continue in their usual quiate course.
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This reenlisting means that we can reenlist agan as vetran [veteran] volanteers for 3 years long from now and receive $400 dollars bounty for the extry year. I have concluded that I was vetrun [veteran] enough already received that Gazetter and Sun paper with your letter
Object Description
| Title | Letter to Sue Smith from George Smith. #93.45.458 |
| Description | Frontline to Homefront: Minto Family Civil War Correspondence |
| Subject |
Correspondence Civil wars War Soldiers Illinois -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 |
| Keywords | letters; Civil War; |
| ProperNames |
Smith, George Smith, Sue |
| Participant | Lake County Discovery Museum |
| Creator | George Smith |
| Date | 1863-08-30 |
| Type | handwritten |
| Format | paper |
| City | Estell Springs |
| State | Tennessee |
| Country | United States |
| Decade | 1860-1869 |
| GiftBy | Funding awarded by the Illinois State Library through the Institute of Museum and Library Services. |
| AcquisitionData | JPEG, 600 DPI (scanned), 24-bit color, Epson Expression 1640 XL, Adobe Photoshop CS |
| Language | Eng |
| CompoundDoc | 458 |
| CollectionsID | MintoLetters |