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War Through the Eyes of a Young Sailor

John M. Dillingham letter to father, January 13, 1864

John M. Dillingham letter to father, January 13, 1864

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Freeport Historical Society

Held at a Confederate prison in Richmond, Monroe Dillingham asks his father to send him food.

In his last letter home, Dillingham writes, "I want you to send me a box of grub. put in a ham bolana sausages [ ? ] and fill it up with bread and stuff that will keep for two or three weeks send a big one."