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Letter to father discusses news and possible movement of his battalion.

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Gray responds to letter from brother and updates him about his current situation.

Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection contains letters to Henry L. Gray's family in Bradley, Maine chronicling his time with the USS Cambridge and their activities throughout the American Civil War. Included in the correspondence are notes on the locations of the ship, proximity to rebel forces, capture of Charleston by the Union Army, and the rebel blockade in Savannah, Georgia. He also references such historical events as the death of Lincoln and the surrenders of General Lee...

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Gray writes to his mother with instructions to distribute photographs he recently had taken of himself.

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Henry thanks his sister, Lizzie, for writing to him and tells of his time spent at sea for the past five days. He tells her that he thinks he will soon be drafted again.

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Gray writes to his father to tell him that he was drafted again and that he had found out the name of the man mother was inquiring about.

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Henry updates his father about his movements and instructing him to carry out a few favors.

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The letter is split between Henry updating his sister about his movements and then continued by him acknowledging the receipt of his coat sent by his father.

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Henry writes to his father to update him about his movements since he last wrote.

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Henry writes to his father to provide him an update to his movements and well-being.