Sunday, February 16, 2014

Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, July 20, 1861


WASHINGTON, July 20, 1861.

The city is in great excitement and filled with rumors from the seat of war. We have nothing yet however that is at all reliable. I suppose there will be some fighting today or to-morrow.

SOURCE: Walter George Smith, Life and letters of Thomas Kilby Smith, p. 169

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