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    <abstract id="aspace_c4821425e6cfb4a006526af0c105f250">Letters written by Francis M. Skillin of the Maine 15th Volunteers, Company H to friends and family in Garland, Maine. Topics include Union General Neale Dow and Maine draft evaders fleeing to Canada. Four letters were written from Martinsburg during the winter of 1864-65. Other letters were written from Augusta, Maine; Cambridge, Massachusetts; Pensacola, Florida; and Baltimore, Maryland.</abstract>
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    <subject source="local">Civil War -- Maine 15th Veteran Volunteers, Company H</subject>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85158243" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Dow, Neal, 1804-1897</persname>
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