Letters from Chaplains: Post-war Confederate, etc.

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Nathaniel E. Pierson NY 89th Infantry Chaplain. Content: "We are alive with the contrabands here and Captain Gurnsey has resigned and gone home on a furlo from a hurt he got on the boat." Also, other letters.

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Worcester, MA, United States

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