Letters, January 23, 1862-November 22, 1864.

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Letters, January 23, 1862-November 22, 1864.

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18 letters written to Burke's sister Ellen E. Hudson in Canandaigua, New York, recount experiences of cavalry life, scouts, and skirmishes in Arkansas and Mississippi.

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Burke, John W.

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Burke lived in Illinois for at least five years before the Civil War. He enlisted as a private in Company K, 5th Illinois Cavalry on September 10, 1861, reenlisted as a veteran on January 1, 1864, and was mustered out as a sergeant on October 27, 1865. By 1885 he was living in Saline County, Kansas, where he began to receive a veteran's pension in 1890. From the description of Letters, January 23, 1862-November 22, 1864. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 611...

United States. Army. Illinois Cavalry Regiment, 5th (1862-1864) Company K.

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Hudson, Ellen E. (Burke), 1838-fl. 1920.

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