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Box 4273.001

 Container

Contains 1 Collection or Record:

Luther K. Casey Letter, 1865 October 16

 Item — Box: 4273.001, Folder: 038
Scope and Contents This collection consists of one letter from Luther K. Casey, Union soldier in Anderson Court House, South Carolina, to his uncle, W. D. Barrell, in Turner, Maine, 16 October 1865. Casey discusses the health of his fellow soldiers (evidently a part of the 1st Maine Battalion), an incident in which three of his comrades were murdered, and denounces South Carolina as "the hardest Secesh hole in the whole south."
Dates: 1865 October 16
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / MSS-4273, Wade Hall Collection of Civil War Materials