Following the American Civil War Sesquicentennial with day by day writings of the time, currently 1863.

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Army letters of Oliver Willcox Norton.

July 4, 2013

Army letters of Oliver Willcox Norton (Eighty-third Pennsylvania Volunteers)

Gettysburg, Penn., July 4, 1863, 10 A. M.

Dear Father:—

I am safe and well. We have met the enemy and given them hell. Colonel Vincent is mortally wounded. Alf Ayres is safe; so is Conway. No time for more.

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