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Description:: A damaged handwritten, four-page letter from Joseph Alston to his father, Charles Alston, in which he relays his experiences in battle and foresees a speedy end to the Civil War. In an attached note, he also informs his father that Union soldiers raided a plantation in Santee, South Carolina, freed its enslaved population, and burned its buildings and crops.

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