Number of Pages
31
Date
1861-1864

Thomas Orwig writes twelve letters to Eli Slifer, the Secretary of the Commonwealth during the Civil War, regarding Orwig's military and administrative affairs with Battery "E" of 1st Pennsylvania artillery. " My greatest [military] ambition is to crush the rebellion," as Orwig notes. Transcripts included.

Time Period
Location
MC 2003.4, B8, F19
Origin
Gift of Edwin G. Dill
Letters from Thomas Orwig to Eli Slifer