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            <text>Black Maryland Woman to the Adjutant General of the Army&#13;
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Baltimore oct 21st 1864  &#13;
Adjt Gen Thomas &#13;
Dr Sir, My Son Jesse Fry Co. I. 4th U.S.C.T. on whom I was almost wholly dependent has been reported Killed please inform me if such is the fact, if it is so please give me the date of his death, and where he was killed, Your obt Sevant &#13;
Delia Fry &#13;
no 160 Sarah Ann &#13;
Street Balt Md&#13;
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Delia Fry to Adjt Gen Thomas, 21 Oct. 1864, F-28 1864, Letters Received, ser. 366, Colored Troops Division, RG 94 [B-344].  A note on the file reads “Oct 25/64. Reply written ‘Absent sick’ (place not known).” According to his service record, Jesse Fry was discharged in Philadelphia “from Summit House USGH on account of epilepsy and general debility” on May 5, 1865. (Service record of Jesse Fry, 4th USCI, Carded Records, Volunteer Organizations: Civil War, ser. 519, RG 94.)</text>
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