UNITED STATES PRISONERS CAMP, POINT LOOKOUT, MD., Sept. 29, 1864. My Dear Mother: At the battle of Winchester, fought the 19th of this month, myself, together with seven others of our company, were captured, namely Henry Warren, Emerson Winstead, Pat Wooten, Bunyan Barnes, Edwin Barnes, Byrant Stokes and Joel Taylor. All of us are in [...]
AMP NEAR BUNKER HILL, VA., Aug. 30, 1864. Dear Mother: I take this occasion to drop you a few lines, as you will be more likely to get it if I send it by Capt. Thompson than by mail. I got with the regiment last Saturday at Bunker Hill, as they fell back from Charlestown. [...]
WINDER HOSPITAL, RICHMOND, SECOND DIVISION, WARD 28, May 25th, 1864. Dear Mother: You will undoubtedly be surprised and I fear alarmed to receive a letter from me at this place. But do not let your mind feel any uneasiness at all. Kind providence has so far favored me that I have passed through another very [...]
IN LINE BATTLE NEAR SPOTTSYLVANIA COURT HOUSE, VA., May 17, 1864. My Dear Mother: Again by kind Providence I am permitted to write you a short letter. There has been no general engagement since I last wrote you. Fights and skirmishing are kept up along the line. Our brigade is now the extreme left of [...]
Every one looks as if he had passed through a hard spell of sickness, black and muddy as hogs. IN LINE OF BATTLE NEAR SPOTSYLVANIA COURT HOUSE, VA., May 14, 1864. My Dear Folks: Through the kind providence of the Almighty God I have come out so far safe and sound and am spared once [...]
CAMP, WINTER QUARTERS, April 21st, 1864. My Dear Sister: Once more in our same old quarters, though we little thought a week ago that we would ever live to see them again. We had a very quiet time on picket this week, at the same time the most pleasant we have had this winter. Only [...]
CAMP NEAR ORANGE C. H., March 29, 1864. My Dear Mother: I wrote you a short letter only a few days ago, but as some little excitement outside of our regular routine of duty has occurred within the past few days, I thought I would drop you a little history of it. Governor Vance arrived [...]
I don’t like the idea of leaving our winter quarters this time of the year. We are bound to have some very severe weather yet. CAMP, FOURTH N. C., NEAR ORANGE COURT HOUSE, February, 1864. My Dear Mother: I received your letter dated February 21st, Friday, and I should have answered it yesterday, but for [...]
…a tramp of ten miles through the mud ankle deep is enough to tire a mule. CAMP NEAR ORANGE COURT HOUSE, VA., February 8, 1864. Dear Mother: I received your letter last week and I had just commenced to answer it when I heard commotion at Morton’s Ford. Our Brigade was on picket last week, [...]
CAMP FOURTH NORTH CAROLINA REG’T., NEAR ORANGE COURT HOUSE, Jan. 26, 1864. My Dear Folks: Your letter of the 16th inst. received a few days ago. Mr. Christman and the boxes got here Sunday night. Everything came safely, with the exception of Tom Stith’s box, that got stolen passing through Richmond; the practiced thieves around [...]
CAMP IN WINTER QUARTERS, NEAR ORANGE COURT HOUSE, January 10, 1864. My Dear Mother: I received your letter by mail, also the one you sent by Mixson. We were on picket at the time. Mixson got here to-day (Sunday) week. We got back from picket last night, having spent one week on the banks of [...]
CAMP NEAR MORTON’S FORD, VA., December 3rd, 1863. My Dear Mother: I know you are anxious to hear from me, so I thought I would write, if not but a few lines, to let you hear from me and to know that I was well and safe. We left this place to-day was one week [...]
CAMP NEAR MORTON’S FORD, VA., November 11th, 1863. My Dear Mother: We are once more in our same camp on the Rapidan, which we left just a month ago. We had just begun to be comfortable in our winter quarters on the Rappahannock when the Yankees run us out. Last Saturday, about ten o’clock, the [...]
ON MARCH NEAR RAPPAHANNOCK STATION, VA., October 18, 1863. My Dear Mother: I received your very welcome letter and did intend answering it last evening, but we were ordered to move, which prevented me from doing so. We left Rapidan about the 7th inst., and have been on the march ever since, and I believe [...]
CAMP NEAR MORTON’S FORD, ON RAPIDAN RIVER, October 5th, 1863. My Dear Mother: I received your letter of the 23rd yesterday while on picket duty and it seems to me from the way in which you write that you did not receive my last letter. I don’t think that it has been two weeks since [...]
CAMP ON RAPIDAN RIVER, SIX MILES NORTH OF RAPIDAN STATION, Sept. 22, 1863. My Dear Mother: I had intended to write you the very day we left Orange Court House, but the movement prevented me. We left there yesterday week, marched towards Rapidan, camped near the river for two days, hearing the cannonading between our [...]
CAMP NEAR ORANGE C. H., August 2nd, 1863. My Dear Mother: I received your letter day before yesterday, just as we received orders to march. We marched about fifteen miles yesterday through the hottest sun that I ever felt. The men were constantly dropping out from overheat, and one or two died from the effects. [...]
WILLIAMSPORT, MD., July 8, 1863. My Dear Mother: As I think there will be an opportunity of sending off a letter in a day or two, I believe I will drop you a few lines to let you know of some of my adventures since I last wrote you (Winchester). We have had rain every [...]
HEAD QUARTERS FOURTH BRIGADE, HILL’S DIV., NEAR GUNNEY DEPOT, 12 MILES FROM FREDERICKSBURG, December 2nd., 1862. My Dear Mother: Once more settled in camp for a little while, long enough to write, at least, I thought I would let you know where we are and what we are doing. We are on the railroad between [...]
HEADQUARTERS FOURTH BRIGADE. November 27, 1862. My Dear Mother: I received your letter yesterday, and also one from brother by Mr. Gorman. I was very glad to hear from you, as I had not received any news from home in some time. He handed me the gloves also, which you sent by him. Nothing ever [...]
HEAD QUARTERS, ANDERSON’S BRIGADE, November 14, 1862. My Dear Mother: As I have another good opportunity of sending a letter the other side of Richmond to be mailed, I thought I would avail myself of it. One of our surgeons will leave in the morning for North Carolina, so that I can have my letter [...]
NEAR BUNKER HILL, VA., October 1st, 1862. Dear Mother: I have just received a letter from you, dated Sept. 2nd. It is the first word I have heard from home since I left Richmond (I forgot I did receive one letter down at Anderson’s station, 30 miles from Richmond). It appears that you have not [...]
HEAD QUARTER’S ANDERSON’S BRIGADE, MAR. BUNKER’S HILL, VA., Sept. 29, 1862. My Dear Mother: It has been some time since I last wrote you. I hope you have not been uneasy about me, for I have never been in better health in my life. During the past two months we have been on the march [...]
HEAD QUARTERS, ANDERSON’S BRIGADE, SOUTH SIDE OF POTOMAC, OPPOSITE BERLIN, LOUDON CO., Sept. 5, 1862. My Dear Mother: I guess you are all very anxious about me, that is to know my whereabouts. Since I last wrote you I have been through the most hardships that I ever have before. Today makes eleven successive days [...]
HEAD QUARTERS, ANDERSON BRIGADE, 30 MILES FROM RICHMOND ON MANAPAS RAILROAD, August 23rd, 1862. My Dear Mother: This is the first opportunity that I have had to write to you since we left our camp near Richmond. Mr. Christman left us, or rather parted from us, in Richmond as we passed through on our march. [...]