Papers of Delos W. Lake, 1862-1865.

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Papers of Delos W. Lake, 1862-1865.

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Letters from Delos W. Lake to his mother and brother Calvin H. Lake, posted from Dowagiac, Mich., various camps in Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Washington, D.C. One letter of Sept. 1863 is written in verse. Lake's letters discuss military operations, including Battle of Thompsons Station and subsequent imprisonment by Bragg's Cavalry forces, operations at Cassville and Golgotha Church, siege and occupation of Atlanta, occupation of Goldsboroe, N.C., advance on and occupation of Raleigh, N.C., and grand review in Washingson, D.C.; commanding officers, including John Coburn, William Starke Rosecrans, and William Tecumseh Sherman; morale of the troops, war news; camp life (drills, payments, firearms, diseases and hospitals, etc.).

93 pieces.1 box; also one oversized folder.

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