Wisconsin & Ohio & Chicago

Lancaster, Wis Feb 8^th 1909

L. W. Hopkins

 

            Dear Sir

                        I was a Union Soldier from start to the end of the "Civil War": but am desirous of reading and having in my library all books that I can ever manage to purchase written on that subject on both sides Among them should be "From Bull Run to Appomattox".

 

Where can I get it & what will a copy cost? I was under M^cClellan in 1861 & 1862 & after chancellorsvill was sent west.

 

Family cares & especially the care of two families in Dixie whose heads were lost in the last cause kept me more than busy & I had no time to hunt up this class of literature & read it. Now I can do but little else at 84—

Sketches written by participants are more reliable than the guesses of Historians.

 

            Respy yours

                                                                                    John G Clark

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