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Christmas 1861 – Robert Gould Shaw’s Holiday Letter From Frederick, Maryland

Posted on December 21, 2016December 21, 2017 by Jake Wynn

Robert Gould Shaw wrote this letter to his mother while sitting in his guard tent three miles east of Frederick, Maryland early on Christmas Day 1861.

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