April 5, 2024
20TH MAINE SOLDIER LETTER
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Civil War letter from Martha Hackett, Patten, Maine, to Hiram Keay, serving in H Company, 20th Maine. Oct 1862 letter to Keay,- she is heartbroken to learn he has enlisted, begs him and bro Alden to get discharges- Alden is sick in hospital- writer would rather the rebels take her prisoner than lose Him (Alden, w the 16th Maine, dies in 1864). , Rodney Barker is a POW, other family news & repeated longing for Hiram to come home. 4pp ink, w cover, Addressed to "Mr Hiram Keay, Co H 20th Reg, Maine Vols, Washington" comes w service data for Hiram, 2oth Maine,served Aug 1862- Sept 1863, then to VRC., & for Alden Hackett.
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