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Photographer: Larry Gertner
Taken: September 11, 2012
Caption: Inset
Additional Description: Sept 17th 1862
Dear Mother & Father
Brothers & Sisters,
I take the opportunity of writing you these few lines to inform you of the sad news of the death of our dear brother Leo. He was wounded this morning about none o’clock and I immediately took him to the nearest hospital where he died about an hour afterward.
Photo of and letter written from Antietam by John I. Faller. Letter from the Faller family papers.
Submitted: July 21, 2020, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York.
Database Locator Identification Number: p531412
File Size: 0.094 Megabytes

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