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Samuel Calvin letters, May-August 1864
1864-08-17 Page 1
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La. Grange Tenn. Wed, Aug. 17th 1864 Friend Lou Your excellent letter dated Sabbath Eve July 31st reached me last Sabbath; while the hours were dragging wearily and heavily along, and I was tossing restlessly on my couch in the Regimental Hospital at this place. Althoug I was not expecting a letter from you then, as I did not think you owed me any. Still it was received with more than usual pleasure, and it is astonishing what an effect it produced. To think that far away; up in my Northern home there were still friends who thought of me as shown by those little evidences of their continued good will and friendship that reach me from time to time, containing precious words
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La. Grange Tenn. Wed, Aug. 17th 1864 Friend Lou Your excellent letter dated Sabbath Eve July 31st reached me last Sabbath; while the hours were dragging wearily and heavily along, and I was tossing restlessly on my couch in the Regimental Hospital at this place. Althoug I was not expecting a letter from you then, as I did not think you owed me any. Still it was received with more than usual pleasure, and it is astonishing what an effect it produced. To think that far away; up in my Northern home there were still friends who thought of me as shown by those little evidences of their continued good will and friendship that reach me from time to time, containing precious words
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