Description
One four-page Civil War letter (ALS) from J. Washburn to his brother, defending the Confederacy, about a month after the attack
on Fort Sumter. Washburn had recently visited his brother, possibly in Princeton, and he describes at length the opposing
views that the two have on causes for the differences between the South and the North. Savannah, GA, May 16, 1861.
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