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Camp near Chattanooga
Oct. 6, 1862
Dear Sister,
[Written upside down on first page: Don't forget to send 2 pens and some stamps]
I suppose you have all heard of the fight in which we were engaged at Chickamauga, and are all waiting with beating hearts to hear the result. Every Parent, Sister or Brother is thinking that their own dear son, Brother or Father is perhaps now lying Dead or wounded on the Field of strife and some times since, when I get to thinking about it I will choke and tears of gratitude come into my eyes to think that one of us after feeling such a storm of lead and Iron should have escaped, but such is the chances of
Object Description
| Title | Letter to Sue Smith from George Smith. #93.45.460 |
| 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 | 1862-10-06 |
| Type | handwritten |
| Format | paper |
| City | Chattanooga |
| 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 | 460 |
| CollectionsID | MintoLetters |