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2 August 1862: “The men are in the army & the women generally have gone farther south. The whole is one wide waste.”

Item description: Letter, 2 August 1862, from Richard Corson, captain in the 1st Pennsylvania Reserve Cavalry, to Jared Evans, Esq. Item citation: From the R. R. Corson Papers #5263-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at … Continue reading

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