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John Bishop Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-009
Abstract
Correspondence and documents of John Bishop Jr. and his family featuring his service in the Civil War
Dates:
1759 - 1951
Thomas Pimer papers
Collection — Box: 5
Identifier: MS-050
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of letters of Thomas Pimer to his father John during his service in the Civil War. From the week after he joined the 21st in September of 1862 to the week before he was finally mustered out of the regiment in June of 1865, Thomas wrote twenty-two letters home to his father. The letters trace Pimer's progress through the war. His first glimpse of combat comes at Fredericksburg, where the 21st is ordered to charge the Confederate batteries, but is then ordered to...
Dates:
1862-1865
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