Box 1
Contains 43 Results:
Writer: E. Henry Writer's location: Camp Sorthumberland?Writer's Military Unit: Union, 96th PA InfantryAddressee: Father & Sisters, 2/23/1862
Balloon Reconnaissance over Manassas (See also Balloon 2/27/63 and 6/18/63).Number of pages: 5
Writer: Pvt. George R. Baldwin Writer's location: Fort Scott, VAWriter's Military Unit: Union, Co. C - 1st Connecticut, Heavy ArtilleryAddressee: Friend Ellery, 3/29/1862
Whore House Escapades.Number of pages: 4 and envelope.
Writer: J. W. Austin Writer's location: New Madrid, MOWriter's Military Unit: Union, 5th Iowa InfantryAddressee: Brother, Sister, Father, 4/4/1862
Damaging storm, cannonating at Island #10, soldiers being killed and injured playing with shells.Number of pages: 4
Writer: E.S. Reed Writer's location: City, NCWriter's Military Unit: Union, 23rd Massachusetts RegimentAddressee: Friend, 4/5/1862
Fighting in knee deep mud. "I got struck twice with a ball"Number of pages: 4. Illustrated.
Writer: Hank Lamereaux Writer's location: New Bern, NCWriter's Military Unit: Union, UnknownAddressee: Brother, 5/16/1862
Soldier struck by lightning.Number of pages: 4 and envelope.
Writer: Capt. John N.Wiedemyer Writer's location: Camp Churchill Clark, Corinth, MSWriter's Military Unit: Confederate, 6th Missouri InfantryAddressee: Wife, 5/16/1862
"Give one a patriot's grave but not a coward's name"Number of pages: 4
Writer: Unsigned Writer's location: Camp No. 7, near Corinth, MSWriter's Military Unit: Union, UnknownAddressee: Wife, 5/25/1862
Soldiers prick their ears only when bulldogs (cannons) bark. Regiment issued new clothing.Number of pages: 4. Illustrated.
Writer: Capt. John M. Huntington Writer's location: Clarksburg, VAWriter's Military Unit: Union, 86th Regiment Ohio VolunteersAddressee: (Blank), 7/9/1862
Whimsical Civil War BroadsideNumber of pages: 1
Writer: Pvt. Isaac Newton Writer's location: Ft Morgan, N&C RR, TNWriter's Military Unit: Union, 37th Illinois InfantryAddressee: Sister, 7/12/1862
Soldiers falling in love with locals - Trading salt and coffee for whiskey with rebels - deer hunt - (Original drawing on masthead) (See also Trading 6/25/63, 7/20/63, 8/10/64, 12/18/64).Number of pages: 4
Writer: Col. J. A. Mulligan Writer's location: Camp Comiskey, New Creek, VAWriter's Military Unit: Union, 23rd Illinois VolunteersAddressee: Major Naughton, 8/2/1862
"It is sad to think that through all this quiet and magnificence ... there shall be blows and blood and ruin"Number of pages: 3