W.F. Barr Civil War Letter

Scope and Content:
Photostat of letter written during the Civil War by W.F. Barr at C.H., Culpepper, Virgina to S. Bleckley Esq. in Anderson, South Carolina on August 21, 1861. Barr wrote from the Confederate Hospital stating that he and "several others of our Regiment" were confined with measles. He gave as his location: "We are now encamped six miles north of where we were when Mr. Hammond was here at a place called Germantown, one and a half mile this side of Fair Fax. The C.H. Germantown was burnt down by the Yankees." Other names mentioned in the letter are: Tom Bagwell, Jacob Maudlin, Mrs. Hubbard, B.A McAlster, Jas. Sloan, and A.O.N. Call.

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