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November 11, 1863

November 11, 2013 by mvanders

Adjutant’s Office 20th Maine Vols, Camp at Kelly’s Ford, Va

My Dear Brother:

I improve the first opportunity since the battle to write you. You have learned from this I am unhurt by the list of causalities in our Corps. I wrote home just as soon as I could snatch a moment which you shall possibly read – in which I tried to give a description of the engagement of the 7th. If you get the same account by the papers that we do, you have but a faint idea of the affair. It is considered the most brilliant feat of the war by those that witnessed it. […]

Holman Melcher to Nathanial Melcher [Holman Melcher Papers]

Filed Under: Holman Melcher Papers Tagged With: 20th Maine, Holman Melcher, Nathaniel Melcher

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