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From: Mari <>
Subject: Re: [IA-CIVIL-WAR] Cedar Valley Times, Feb. 6, 1862, Co. D, 12th Iowa Inf.
Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 14:35:22 -0500
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Sue,
I agree...have read a book taken from a Midwife's diary early
1800's......very insightful of the kind of lives they led then! One can't
begin to now what it must have been for them!!

Mari

At 01:05 PM 5/2/2004, wrote:
>Lois,
>
>I'm always finding out something new from these letters, too. The soldiers
>seemed to tackle a lot of minor, everyday issues that you just don't find
>references to elsewhere. I'm sure they considered their letters fairly
>unimportant
>at the time. If they only knew.
>
>Sue
>Sue..
>
>I find these old articles very informative, especially the 1862 and
>prior...Thanks for posting them!! Lois



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