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One year of letters written home by John E. Gillespie, a Union soldier from Chester County, Pennsylvania in a three-month volunteer unit that defended Washington, DC at the beginning of the U.S. Civil War. The unit eventually reorganized into a three-year unit that fought a number of battles including Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg. Gillespie's letters were written from June 1861 to May 1862.
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