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William Elmer Thorp correspondence, 1846-1868
1861-07-12 William E. Thorpe to Alfred Thorpe Page 2
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that we were going to march into Va. last Wednesday and I did not know but you had heard of it we had such orders but they were countermanded I suppose on acct. of our guns as the guns we then had were poor ones being old flint locks altered but yesterday we marched down to the Arsenal and changed them for guns made at Harpers Ferry in 1852 and are very good guns but I dont know now as we shall be able to get off as E. G. Spalding and some others are trying to get us for the National Guards and if they do we shall have to stay here around the city but us boys do not like that. You know I wrote to you about what I should do at the end of the three months well some say we are in for two years anyway that the state
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that we were going to march into Va. last Wednesday and I did not know but you had heard of it we had such orders but they were countermanded I suppose on acct. of our guns as the guns we then had were poor ones being old flint locks altered but yesterday we marched down to the Arsenal and changed them for guns made at Harpers Ferry in 1852 and are very good guns but I dont know now as we shall be able to get off as E. G. Spalding and some others are trying to get us for the National Guards and if they do we shall have to stay here around the city but us boys do not like that. You know I wrote to you about what I should do at the end of the three months well some say we are in for two years anyway that the state
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