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23 June 1864: “How strange it is that where there is most danger there should be most wickedness, but so it is.”

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Item description: Letter, dated 23 June 1864, from George Hovey Cadman, a soldier in the 39th Ohio Infantry Regiment, to his wife Esther. Item citation: From folder 10 in George Hovey Cadman Papers (#122), Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of … Continue reading →

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19 June 1864: “This has been an awful day; fighting, and cannonading and a dreadful thunderstorm.”

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Item description: In this 19 June 1864 letter, George Hovey Cadman, a soldier in the 39th Ohio Infantry Regiment, wrote from the Marietta, Ga., area to his wife about a momentary truce between his company’s skirmishers and the “Johnnies” on … Continue reading →

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