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by (MEXICAN WAR)
(MEXICAN WAR). ALS. 2pgs. June 18, 1849. [place illegible] An autograph letter signed by an American soldier on duty during the Mexican-American War. Writing to his brother in college, he hopes that the war will end soon enough for him to make it through alive. [] my neglect in not answering your last letter the fact is I have had so much on my mind for the last 2 months that I hardly know what I am about have recd several dispatches from Mexico since I wrote you last all of which tend to make the prospect than less & less flattering the grand trouble is that their congress will not reach our bill this session owing to business of more information (truncated)