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Letter, George Thomas, Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Minerva Thomas
Part of: Thomas Family Correspondence
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Thomas reports here that Capt. Gladden L. Farwell was killed in action outside Jackson, Mississippi. In fact, Farwell survived the war; military records indicate that he was mustered out of the 28th Illinois Infantry in 1864.