Brochure explaining the purpose and organization of the fund: ".Governor Frank Dixon.proposed the organization of an ALABAMA WAR CHEST which would undertake to raise, through one state-wide annual appeal to citizens in every county, a fund for all...
Brochure from the Alabama War Chest, Inc. The organization is raising money to distribute among eight service agencies, which will assist soldiers and civilians in other Allied nations.
In the letter Dicken describes the death of his brother-in-law, I. B. Cadenhead, on July 22: "...from what I can learn he was shot through the chest with a miney ball, I saw him lying on the field, but we was retreating and there was no time for me...
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