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A letter from Henry Mervine, Deep Bottom, Va., to Lizzie Mervine, discusses his participation in the Civil War as a Yankee soldier. He describes the fighting around Petersburg. It is quiet on the war front. He tells her the African American troops are relieving white Northern troops and there is friendliness at the picket lines.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865