Papers, 1864-1867.

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Papers, 1864-1867.

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Letters from Smith to his father, Horace Smith, and other members of his family, describing the journey of his regiment by ship to New Orleans, La.; his stay in the Marine Hospital; an expedition up the Red River under General Nathaniel Prentiss Banks; food and guerilla fighting; the fighting in the lower Shenandoah Valley of Virginia under General Philip Sheridan; the election of 1864; John Singleton Mosby's Partisan Rangers; various Union generals; the assassination of Abraham Lincoln; and the concerts and serenades presented by his band at the end of the Civil War, ending with the Grand Review of the Union Army in Washington, D.C.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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