To: Eunice; From: Fredrick Wilkes, Cairo, Illinois - Boats irregular from Cairo. Three (3) days to Helena. Found friends in the 29th Regular Wisc. Vol. Gen. Prentiss provide boat for crossing. Met other acquaintances in the 32nd Wisc. Great movements being made on Vicksburgh. Boyd Sebastian is helping locate Albert's remains. The Army is fearful of the Copperheads actions. Major Smedley's men arrested 3 drunken trouble-makers (singing rebel songs) and confiscated the horse and buggy.
Owned by Frank Goldsmith Johnson
Dimensions: Height 7 1/2" Width 4 1/2"