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Crimean War]. 3 ALsS by James Bell Lundy (Assistant Commissariat), to his wife, sent while he was fighting the Crimean War. ++ Oct. 27, 1855, expressing a lack of hope for peace. ++ “Head Quarters, Friday. 16 November 1855… You will see by my hand writing that I am much better than when I wrote my last… sharp attack of Crimean Fever, a nasty aguish one, and am so pulled down. Fancy, since last Friday morning, nearly 9 days, I have eaten nothing except two spoonfull of apple jelly, and two plates of soup!... It has been a miserable week, but I lay still, and resolutely refused either to eat or drink any thing, and have starved… [middle of page 2] 3 P.M. the most frightful explosion I ever heard… Ammunition Depot right attach, blew up. It was a horrible sight. The French loss is about 400, and the English 200. ++ ALS by James Bell Lundy. “19 Novem: 1855: I moved down here on Saturday evening, and am a great deal better altho’ a good deal shaken by the insidious Crimean Fever. I leave… in the ‘Indiana’ a fine large steamer, and am in order for leave to the 5 January… should I have any return of the fever and go home at once. ++ 2nd leaf of a different letter.
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