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Good content A.L.S. on patriotic letterhead, 2pp. 8vo., Ironton, MO, Nov. 17, [1861-62], in which Union soldier C.W. Reel reports to his cousin on chasing after Jeff Thompson and his"Swamp Rats". In part:"...I am driving a government team...We followed Jeff Thompson 95 miles and did not ketch him. We was gone 11 days. There was a trane of a hundred and twenty wagons. There was 500 Cavalry went with us and they done all the scouting and they took 45 prisoners and about 35 horses..." Very good. Thompson commanded the First Military District of Missouri, which covered the swampy southeastern quarter of the state from St. Louis to the Mississippi River, thus gaining renown as the "Swamp Fox of the Confederacy."

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