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On February 18, 1862, William B. Tucker wrote his uncle Robert Boyd from Johns Island near Charleston, South Carolina. He was a member of Company F, 2nd South Carolina Rifles.

Tucker gives a great amount of detail of the military maneuvering that had gone on between the Confederate and federal armies on the island.

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