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    "A painful duty" - A letter to the father of a Pennsylvania soldier killed by typhoid fever
    Jake Wynn
    • Feb 3, 2020

    "A painful duty" - A letter to the father of a Pennsylvania soldier killed by typhoid fever

    Private Rolandus Lytle succumbed to typhoid fever in Virginia on August 14, 1862. An officer wrote to Lytle's father with the sad news.
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    Letter from a Pennsylvania drummer boy – April 1862
    Jake Wynn
    • Jan 7, 2020

    Letter from a Pennsylvania drummer boy – April 1862

    Jeremiah Helms served as a drummer boy in the 50th Pennsylvania. He was mortally wounded at Antietam in September 1862.
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