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Letter from Colonel Cherry to G.G. Arthur

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Letter from Colonel Cherry of the 15th North Carolina Reserves stationed in Greenville, N.C to G.G. Arthur. The colonel comments on Negroes joining the Union cause, lack of Union bravery, Confederate troop movements in Pennsylvania, the siege of Vicksburg, Lee's motives for moving northward and the results on the South if Lee is successful, Confederate deserters, and Union faith in "buffaloes" and Negroes.
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Arthur, G.G
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Civil War
  3. Civil War, 1861 1865
  4. Correspondence
  5. Desertions
  6. History
  7. Participation, African American
  8. Pennsylvania
  9. Siege, 1863
  10. United States
  11. Vicksburg (Miss.)

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