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Record Group Number: 900000
Collection Number: M87- 6
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Creator: Shaw, Roderick Gospero, d. 1864
Collection/Series Title: Roderick Gospero Shaw and James Kilpatrick Shaw letters, 1861-1864.
Container: 00001
File Unit: 00001.00001
Item: 00007
Title: RGS to JSS, 17 May 1863, "4th Fla. Regt. [Near Wartrace, Tennessee]" Everything is quiet, comments on the "the state of affairs in Mississippi" [the Vicksburg Campaign], which he considers critical; death of Stonewall Jackson and Earl Van Dorn; has returned to regiment, studying tactics and battalion drill, beauty of country, poor provisions ["Meal after meal we sit to cornbread (once in a while a little flour) bacon and water"], recently vaccinated himself and arm is very sore and breaking out, hopes to get furlough, possible promotion, regiment engaged in a game of "town-ball."
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