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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 145205, member: 59"]Back then the letters home were often written out by more educated comrades for those who were illiterate or only semi-literate. In this case, however, I suspect Orrin wrote it himself. One of the first records I found for an Orrin Cooke of NY of the right age to be a CW soldier - and which took me to the right place to find him - was a listing for him among the students at the Delaware Literary Institute in 1859. It gave his hometown as West Oneonta, NY.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 145205, member: 59"]Back then the letters home were often written out by more educated comrades for those who were illiterate or only semi-literate. In this case, however, I suspect Orrin wrote it himself. One of the first records I found for an Orrin Cooke of NY of the right age to be a CW soldier - and which took me to the right place to find him - was a listing for him among the students at the Delaware Literary Institute in 1859. It gave his hometown as West Oneonta, NY.[/QUOTE]
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