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Dakota City, Iowa Civil War Letter

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Dakota City, Iowa Civil War Letter
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Dateline Dakotah, Apr. 3rd, 1865. Addressed to JJ Barclay of Bedford, Pennsylvania from Geo. L. Cruikshank. He writes, "It was a long time after your capture before we heard anything in regard to you. At one time a report came that a Lt. belonging to the 11th Pa. had died of his wounds at a farm in the vicinity of the engagement ...many concluded it must be you." Later he discusses the fate of their regiment: "I can give you but little information about Co. A at present...the last I heard they were at Suffolk...Barber 1st Lt. wounded and a prisoner..." etc. Great read! 3pp. Folded blue paper. There appears to be institutional collections of other letters from Cruikshank and they provide the following biography: "George Cruikshank was living and working in the mercantile business in Fort Dodge, Iowa when he enlisted in the 11th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment in August, 1861. Cruikshank and other men from Fort Dodge went to Dubuque to enlist and were attached to the Pennsylvania unit, apparently because there were not enough men to form an Iowa unit. He served until September 20, 1864 when he returned to Iowa. In December, 1864 he married Esther M. Flowers of Humboldt County, Iowa. He worked in the mercantile trade in Fort Dodge and Dakota City before taking up farming in Humboldt County in 1875. He held various Humboldt County offices, including township clerk, secretary of the school board, postmaster at Dakota City and Addison, and chairman of the Humboldt Creamery Company." [Ref: https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/data/180306956] Date: 1865 City: Dakota City State: Iowa HWAC# 77346