Pvt.
Ferdinand Kilbourn,
Tioga
National Guard, [
to:
Wellsboro Agitator, 6-5-1861.
“The remaining members
of the Tioga National Guards, tender their
thanks to the ladies of Covington and Mansfield for their kind and timely donation of two
boxes of edibles, consisting of luxuries unknown to camp life, the box of underclothing,
and the packages of what-nots,
with their contents of needles, pins, thread, buttons and such like notions which are
most indispensable in camp life, and only which a kind friend, fond mother or beloved
sister can furnish. It needed not such reminders to keep the green memory of the fair ones
at home, but they are precious assurances of affection.
“Hoping not to prove
unworthy of a place in the memory of the friends and girls we left behind us. In behalf of
the
“F. Kilbourn.”
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