DAMAGED AUTOGRAPH LETTER WRITTEN ON JULY 5, 1863 TO MAJOR WILLIAM MCLAUGHLIN

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Echols, John
DAMAGED AUTOGRAPH LETTER WRITTEN ON JULY 5, 1863 TO MAJOR WILLIAM MCLAUGHLIN
Published By: Self Published
Date Published: 1863
Binding: Ephemera
Book Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Book/DJ: Poor
Description: Handwritten letter with much of the left side torn off. Includes a cabinet card of John Echols taken after the war, as well as his personal brass name stencil used during the war. Also includes the front cover of the Life of Washington by Irving, with Echol's signature in pencil, dated 1857, on the inside. Included are several pages about Echols by one of his descendants. Images available upon request.
Letter reads: Dr. Mc. I hope to be a the Narrows on next Monday. I wish that you would ask Col. Wharton if he cannot help me in some way to get home, either by ambulance or some other safe way. Bowyer has just come in and we are just going down to try t get your (cloth? ). He will leave here on Saturday night and if nothing happens will be in Dublin on Sunday. It is forever now snowing hard and very cold. I wish that you can see that I can get the quarters where you are, if you should be ordered away, or stay with you when I report for duty, which will be in a very few days. No news except what you will see in the papers, In haste very truly yours Jno Echols
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