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Summary ALS 4 pp. January 19, 1863 Letter from William Francis Brand to Amanda Catherine Armentrout, January 19, 1863

WFB, Camp Winder, Caroline County, Virginia, to “Dear Friend,” Greenville, w/envelope: oysters cost six dollars a gallon here; Company E at sixty men, is the largest in the brigade; troops constructing winter quarters with chimneys and securing good supplies of wood and water; “I have often been near you in my dreams since I last saw you”