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Creation Date
2-20-1862
Description
First page of letter from John Hebron to his mother Lydia Hebron of Steubenville, Ohio.
Bowling Green
Feb. 20th 62
Dear mother
I now set down to writ you a few line to let you know how I am getting along. I suppose you have heard of the taking of Bowling Green that great battle has come off at last without firing a gun when I wrote last we was between Green River and Bowling Green we was ordered to stay there and fix the Pike we stayed there 9 days and then we came to Bowling [Green] we camped on the north side of the river that night . . .
Keywords
Bowling Green, KY, U.S. Civil War 1861-1865