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- Lyman S. Williams to Carrie A. Williams
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Topics include moving camp towards Winchester, Virginia, a Confederate attack on the picket lines resulting in rebel prisoners, captured artillery & ammunition trains, receiving his commission as 1st Lieutenant of Company I, and his happiness that President Abraham Lincoln was re-elected.
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- Lyman S. Williams to Parents
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Topics include a retreat to the James River (known later as a "great skedaddle," a word that Williams uses here but in the context of not being paid), a fight at Savage's Station, a review by General McClellan, and the men killed and wounded in the fight.
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- Lyman S. Williams to Caroline Williams
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Topics include the comforts of camp life.
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- Lyman S. Williams to Warren Williams
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Topics include the election of officers.