Letter, 1864 September 20.

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Letter, 1864 September 20.

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John Lary writes from a military camp near Atlanta, to William Carter. "...The fall of Atlanta was a hard blow on the rebellion and I don't think that the people of the south can hold out much longer, everyone that comes inside our lines says that they are a whipped people and every thing shows this to be a fact. ...And if you send me that tobacco before election day I think I can give old George B. a vote that we will remember but old Abe Lincoln I cannot see."

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American Periodical Series I

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