Letters, Oct. 1863-April 1865.

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Letters, Oct. 1863-April 1865.

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Letters to his uncle Sgt. L. Otis Colburn and Barton W. Underwood both serving in the 51st Illinois. Letters first written as a patient then as hospital staff, discuss the war news, news friends and relatives at home and serving in the war, progress of the war, and his work in the hospital. Last letter discusses the army activities at the end of the war and the death of Lincoln.

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 51st (1861-1865)

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Colburn, L. Otis.

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Underwood, Barton W.

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Walker, Samuel S

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Private from Chicago who served in the 51st Illinois Infantry during the Civil War, was wounded in the chest and spent months in the hospital and then worked in the hospital becoming Corporal of the Guard in 1864. From the description of Letters, Oct. 1863-April 1865. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 56089371 ...