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Worthy McClintock was a soldier from Solon, Ohi,o who served in Company H of the 18th Infantry Regiment of the United States
Army during the Civil War. He was stationed at Camp Thomas, Columbus, Ohio and saw duty in Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky
from June 1862 through the summer of 1864. He fought in the Battle of Chattanooga and the Battle of Chickamauga and apparently
died while in service sometime before November 1, 1864. The collection consists of approximately twenty-five pieces of correspondence
primarily between Worthy and his parents (Joshua and Lucy), but also includes a few letters from family friends and other
correspondents.
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