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Letter. Mary L. West, Dansville, New York to "Miss [Sarah] Stilson," Corning, New York
Part of: Sarah Stilson Correspondence
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Responding to an inquiry of Sarah Stilson's, Mary West writes that her brother Waldo ". . . was taken prisoner by the rebs. May 7th and, with others, immediately taken to Libby Prison, Richmond . . . ." West is unwounded but, according to the report of a surgeon who left the prison on 28 May, in need of food.
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![Letter. [Oliver] Waldo [West], Headquarters, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac, to "chére amie Lyra" [Sarah Stilson], Corning, New York](https://iiif-image.library.nd.edu/iiif/2/RareBooks%2Fcollections%2Fead_xml%2Fimages%2FMSN-CW_5061%2FMSN-CW_5061-30.a.150/full/!300,300/0/default.webp)
![Letter. [Oliver] Waldo [West], Camp, 1st New York Dragoons, to "Dearly beloved in the Equation" [Sarah Stilson], Corning, New York](https://iiif-image.library.nd.edu/iiif/2/RareBooks%2Fcollections%2Fead_xml%2Fimages%2FMSN-CW_5061%2FMSN-CW_5061-31.a.150/full/!300,300/0/default.webp)
![Letter. H[enry] J. Gifford, near Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia, to "Friend Lyra" [Sarah Stilson]](https://iiif-image.library.nd.edu/iiif/2/RareBooks%2Fcollections%2Fead_xml%2Fimages%2FMSN-CW_5061%2FMSN-CW_5061-32.a.150/full/!300,300/0/default.webp)
![Letter. Geo[rge] H. Stuart, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Sarah L. Stilson, Corning, New York](https://iiif-image.library.nd.edu/iiif/2/RareBooks%2Fcollections%2Fead_xml%2Fimages%2FMSN-CW_5061%2FMSN-CW_5061-34.a.150/full/!300,300/0/default.webp)
![Letter. [Oliver] Waldo [West], Camp Parole, Annapolis, Maryland, to "Lyra" [Sarah Stilson]](https://iiif-image.library.nd.edu/iiif/2/RareBooks%2Fcollections%2Fead_xml%2Fimages%2FMSN-CW_5061%2FMSN-CW_5061-36.a.150/full/!300,300/0/default.webp)