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05_1861-11-16-Page 01
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861616 Meadville November 16th. 1861 Dear nephew it is with much pleasure that yours of 26 of October came to hand I was pleased to hear that your health is good when I am writing this the query arises in my mind is he still living for I have been reading of the battle at Belmont and of the loss of life in the Union Regiments when I read the accounts of these dreadful battles I feel like the Prophet of old when he witnessed the destruction of Jerusalem how long oh Lord how long it seems to me this is a war without a paralel in the History of the world how can it be possible for the South to think for one moment of subjugating the north the very
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861616 Meadville November 16th. 1861 Dear nephew it is with much pleasure that yours of 26 of October came to hand I was pleased to hear that your health is good when I am writing this the query arises in my mind is he still living for I have been reading of the battle at Belmont and of the loss of life in the Union Regiments when I read the accounts of these dreadful battles I feel like the Prophet of old when he witnessed the destruction of Jerusalem how long oh Lord how long it seems to me this is a war without a paralel in the History of the world how can it be possible for the South to think for one moment of subjugating the north the very
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