What a joy to share this letter from David Patrick to his mother Laura. I was on the Rally Bus heading home from the Women’s March in Washington DC and could not sleep. To pass the miles, I started searching for Civil War soldier letters and the 40th Iowa. I never expected to find this genealogy gem. It was waiting for me in a manuscript archive in Arkansas.
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Citation: David Patrick Civil War Letter to his mother, 29 October 1863, MSS.13-.14, Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Arkansas Studies Institute, Little Rock, AR.
