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Box 4273.001

 Container

Contains 1 Collection or Record:

John R. Lynn Letter, 1863 February 28

 File — Box: 4273.001, Folder: 020
Scope and Contents The collection consists of a single letter from Lynn to his father, Joel Lynn of Hartford, Ohio County, Indiana, written from Camargo, Illinois, February 28, 1863. Most of the letter relates to cattle, but Lynn also mentions that "There is Strong talk of a [military] draft here & also in some parts of the State Strong talk of resistance (which will prove a Humbug)".
Dates: 1863 February 28
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4273, Wade Hall Collection of Civil War Materials