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Camp Curtin

Civil War soldier-poet recorded the deaths of three comrades in four days from disease

Posted on May 31, 2018June 4, 2018 by Jake Wynn

Private Samuel Veatch used poetry to record the final words of comrades at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg in January 1862.

Posted in Civil War, PennsylvaniaTagged Bedford, Bedford County, Camp Curtin, Civil War, Civil War Medicine, Disease, Harrisburg, Newspaper, Pennsylvania, PoetryLeave a comment

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