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- 1889-1990 (Creation)
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48pp
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Per Dr. Arnold Schrier, collaborator of Kerby A. Miller, who provided the letter: 'The original of this letter is in the possession of Mr. James Cahill, Barnderry, Attanna, Co. Leix, who sent it to me on February 11, 1955 with permission to make a photostat. Of the letter-writer, James Cahill wrote: "This man was my uncle Jeremiah Cahill. Julia he mentioned was his sister & Phelan was a relative. I think he only wrote one more letter & said in that he had a narrow escape from a flock of Wild Boar. He was in the British Army as well being in India & Africa. We never heard from him in all them years. He would be about 90 years if alive now [1955].'
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The Jeremiah Cahill letter is a letter written by Jeremiah Cahill, serving in Troop C of the First United States Cavalry at Fort Assinniboine, Montana to his brother in Ireland. The series contains Kerby A. Miller's letter transcripts, a reproduction of the letter collected by Professor Arnold Schrier, and documentation regarding attempts to obtain miitary records pertaining to Cahill, and associated correspondence.