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<p>55</p>
<p>Alfred L. Mantor</p>
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<p>Wednesday, January 13, 1864.</p>
<p>Bought this diary Price .75 cts</p>
<p>“ one [?] “ .25</p>
<p>“ Six Pens “ .06</p>
<p>Received a letter from Mr. M</p>
<p>Mantor</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thursday 14</p>
<p>Went down on main street and</p>
<p>purchased a Cap 2.50 cts</p>
<p>Thirteen Buttons .60</p>
<p>Apples 5</p>
<p>In the evening assisted in the</p>
<p>colored school</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Friday 15</p>
<p>The veterans are up and off on</p>
<p>their furlough</p>
<p>Received 21 dollars and two</p>
<p>notes, one against E.S. Williams of two</p>
<p>dollars. And one against J. Stephens</p>
<p>of five which are to be collected and the</p>
<p>whole to be given to Doct Otis to be ap</p>
<p>propriated to the benefit of the [??]</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Wednesday, January 13, 1864.</p>
<p>Bought this diary Price .75 cts</p>
<p>“ one [?] “ .25</p>
<p>“ Six Pens “ .06</p>
<p>Received a letter from Mr. M</p>
<p>Mantor</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thursday 14</p>
<p>Went down on main street and</p>
<p>purchased a Cap 2.50 cts</p>
<p>Thirteen Buttons .60</p>
<p>Apples 5</p>
<p>In the evening assisted in the</p>
<p>colored school</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Friday 15</p>
<p>The veterans are up and off on</p>
<p>their furlough</p>
<p>Received 21 dollars and two</p>
<p>notes, one against E.S. Williams of two</p>
<p>dollars. And one against J. Stephens</p>
<p>of five which are to be collected and the</p>
<p>whole to be given to Doct Otis to be ap</p>
<p>propriated to the benefit of the [??]</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Saturday, January 16, 1864.</p>
<p>Went down street with report book</p>
<p>and purchased 10cts worth of Apples</p>
<p>In the eve attended a prayer meet</p>
<p>ing at Mr Coans. Had a delight</p>
<p>ful meeting I felt a desire to</p>
<p>consecrate my life anew to the Sacred</p>
<p>(I took part)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Sunday 17</p>
<p>This morning went to the Hospital</p>
<p>made out the morning report went </p>
<p>to guard mounting, and attended</p>
<p>a Colored Sabbath school</p>
<p>Afternoon heard our Chaplan</p>
<p>preach</p>
<p>Took a walk up to the Cemetery with Cap l Ford</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Monday 18</p>
<p>One resolution. Capt L. W. Ford & Henry</p>
<p>Loveland have made a promise not to </p>
<p>taste any spirits while in town.</p>
<p>I t has been a rainy day. I purchased</p>
<p>a Bible Price one dollars 1.25 and twenty five cts</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Tuesday, January 19, 1864.</p>
<p>It is rather rough weather. The city of</p>
<p>Hudison drifted on to the Merimack</p>
<p>and came very near going to pieces</p>
<p>Have had a heavy marching order in–</p>
<p>spection by one of Gen Barns Staff</p>
<p>Act Orderly as usual. Have drawn a </p>
<p>book. Title, Saints Rest Baxter</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Wednesday 20</p>
<p>Made out the morning report. went to</p>
<p>Guard mounting duty. Called on the</p>
<p>Chaplain. In the eve called on some</p>
<p>northern teachers. had a very pleasant [?]</p>
<p>visit. Bought one Handkerchief 50 cts</p>
<p>Candy 20</p>
<p>Two collars 10</p>
<p>Twenty eight months ago today the organization of the 27th
Regt.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thursday 21</p>
<p>This has been a very pleasant day The</p>
<p>cittizens are electing their representatives</p>
<p>Took a walk up to the cemetery this</p>
<p>eve. I had a sphereotype likeness taken</p>
<p>Received for shirt 75 cts 1.00</p>
<p>Due for 1 Cap 60 cts Ball Dr. For apples 10</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Saturday, January 16, 1864.</p>
<p>Went down street with report book</p>
<p>and purchased 10cts worth of Apples</p>
<p>In the eve attended a prayer meet</p>
<p>ing at Mr Coans. Had a delight</p>
<p>ful meeting I felt a desire to</p>
<p>consecrate my life anew to the Sacred</p>
<p>(I took part)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Sunday 17</p>
<p>This morning went to the Hospital</p>
<p>made out the morning report went </p>
<p>to guard mounting, and attended</p>
<p>a Colored Sabbath school</p>
<p>Afternoon heard our Chaplan</p>
<p>preach</p>
<p>Took a walk up to the Cemetery with Cap l Ford</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Monday 18</p>
<p>One resolution. Capt L. W. Ford & Henry</p>
<p>Loveland have made a promise not to </p>
<p>taste any spirits while in town.</p>
<p>I t has been a rainy day. I purchased</p>
<p>a Bible Price one dollars 1.25 and twenty five cts</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Tuesday, January 19, 1864.</p>
<p>It is rather rough weather. The city of</p>
<p>Hudison drifted on to the Merimack</p>
<p>and came very near going to pieces</p>
<p>Have had a heavy marching order in–</p>
<p>spection by one of Gen Barns Staff</p>
<p>Act Orderly as usual. Have drawn a </p>
<p>book. Title, Saints Rest Baxter</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Wednesday 20</p>
<p>Made out the morning report. went to</p>
<p>Guard mounting duty. Called on the</p>
<p>Chaplain. In the eve called on some</p>
<p>northern teachers. had a very pleasant [?]</p>
<p>visit. Bought one Handkerchief 50 cts</p>
<p>Candy 20</p>
<p>Two collars 10</p>
<p>Twenty eight months ago today the organization of the 27th
Regt.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thursday 21</p>
<p>This has been a very pleasant day The</p>
<p>cittizens are electing their representatives</p>
<p>Took a walk up to the cemetery this</p>
<p>eve. I had a sphereotype likeness taken</p>
<p>Received for shirt 75 cts 1.00</p>
<p>Due for 1 Cap 60 cts Ball Dr. For apples 10</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Friday, January 22, 1864.</p>
<p>Have just returned from an evening</p>
<p>school Mr Coans is not there</p>
<p>The day is past and gone the evening</p>
<p>shades appear. Oh may I ever keep</p>
<p>in view the night of death draws </p>
<p>near. For Apples 23 cts</p>
<p>Have given his dollars to Carrie. Lent by Letter $5.00</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Saturday 23</p>
<p>All things as usual</p>
<p>Paid for washing 45 cts</p>
<p>Eve attended a prayer meeting Subject</p>
<p>Sell all thou hast and distribute to </p>
<p>the poor. And thou shalt have treas–</p>
<p>ure in Heaven</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Sunday 24</p>
<p>Went to the colored Sabbath School had a </p>
<p>class. In the afternoon met in the district</p>
<p>school–house & heard our Chaplain preach</p>
<p>Have commenced a letter this evening</p>
<p>to Mary. Lent 5.00 to G. Hitcheveh</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Monday, January 25, 1864.</p>
<p>Attended the evening school</p>
<p>This day has been somewhat broken</p>
<p>of that monitonous guard duty which has</p>
<p>hither to been our lot. Battallion line</p>
<p>was formed at 1 ½ o clock to escort Gen</p>
<p>Barns to the Boat where he is to leave for</p>
<p>the army of the Potomac. Sent a letter to Mary</p>
<p>Enclosed a sphereotype. Lent 25 cts to E. Williams</p>
<p>to Farrell</p>
<p>Received Permit</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Tuesday 26</p>
<p>Paid off Deed 24 dollars and twenty</p>
<p>five cts. Seven new recruits came</p>
<p>into the company. Eve attended</p>
<p>the mission school. After school</p>
<p>four of us took a walk out on</p>
<p>Freemason Street. Thense onto the</p>
<p>Pleasure bridge. Saw the lights reflected on</p>
<p>the water from the gun–boats and meditated <s>the</s></p>
<p>a lesson</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Wednesday</p>
<p>Have commenced drilling the new</p>
<p>recruits. Have been about the quar–</p>
<p>ters most of the day. Met Lieut J.</p>
<p>G. Langley</p>
<p> </p>
<p>“Pray with out ceasing” </p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Friday, January 22, 1864.</p>
<p>Have just returned from an evening</p>
<p>school Mr Coans is not there</p>
<p>The day is past and gone the evening</p>
<p>shades appear. Oh may I ever keep</p>
<p>in view the night of death draws </p>
<p>near. For Apples 23 cts</p>
<p>Have given his dollars to Carrie. Lent by Letter $5.00</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Saturday 23</p>
<p>All things as usual</p>
<p>Paid for washing 45 cts</p>
<p>Eve attended a prayer meeting Subject</p>
<p>Sell all thou hast and distribute to </p>
<p>the poor. And thou shalt have treas–</p>
<p>ure in Heaven</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Sunday 24</p>
<p>Went to the colored Sabbath School had a </p>
<p>class. In the afternoon met in the district</p>
<p>school–house & heard our Chaplain preach</p>
<p>Have commenced a letter this evening</p>
<p>to Mary. Lent 5.00 to G. Hitcheveh</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Monday, January 25, 1864.</p>
<p>Attended the evening school</p>
<p>This day has been somewhat broken</p>
<p>of that monitonous guard duty which has</p>
<p>hither to been our lot. Battallion line</p>
<p>was formed at 1 ½ o clock to escort Gen</p>
<p>Barns to the Boat where he is to leave for</p>
<p>the army of the Potomac. Sent a letter to Mary</p>
<p>Enclosed a sphereotype. Lent 25 cts to E. Williams</p>
<p>to Farrell</p>
<p>Received Permit</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Tuesday 26</p>
<p>Paid off Deed 24 dollars and twenty</p>
<p>five cts. Seven new recruits came</p>
<p>into the company. Eve attended</p>
<p>the mission school. After school</p>
<p>four of us took a walk out on</p>
<p>Freemason Street. Thense onto the</p>
<p>Pleasure bridge. Saw the lights reflected on</p>
<p>the water from the gun–boats and meditated the</p>
<p>a lesson</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Wednesday</p>
<p>Have commenced drilling the new</p>
<p>recruits. Have been about the quar–</p>
<p>ters most of the day. Met Lieut J.</p>
<p>G. Langley</p>
<p> </p>
<p>“Pray with out ceasing” </p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Thursday, January 28, 1864.</p>
<p>Have sent a letter to Father</p>
<p>It has been a very warm day. In the</p>
<p>evening attended a Mission school</p>
<p>[?]. Of all the instructions</p>
<p>in the east or in the west. That</p>
<p>glorious instruction of the school–</p>
<p>room is the best. Do come along.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Friday 29</p>
<p>5cts</p>
<p>20”</p>
<p>Warm and sultry have been drill–</p>
<p>ing the new recruits Eve attend.</p>
<p>ed mission school. I was changed</p>
<p>to one more advanced. had a </p>
<p>short chat with a Miss Taylor</p>
<p>I have made strong resolutions for</p>
<p>the past two or three days that I will</p>
<p>try and relinquish that desire for worldly gain</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Saturday 30</p>
<p>Drilled the recruits. Cleansed the</p>
<p>quarters and got ready for Inspection</p>
<p>Evening attended a prayer meeting, and</p>
<p>took part. “It is more blessed to</p>
<p>give than to receive”</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Sunday, January 31, 1864.</p>
<p>Attended the mission sabbath school</p>
<p>was called upon to the school <s>meet</s></p>
<p><s>ing</s> with prayer.</p>
<p>In the afternoon met in the</p>
<p>Theater and listened to a discourse</p>
<p>from our Chaplain</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Monday, February 1</p>
<p>This is rather of a damp day. have</p>
<p>been drilling the new recruits</p>
<p>Eve attended the mission school</p>
<p>After recitations two Gentleman</p>
<p>addressed the school. One was from</p>
<p>New York. “Thou and my foundation</p>
<p>Oh my God.” </p>
<p>Lent 5 dollars to E J Williams</p>
<p>Also 5 dollars to J Stephens</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Tuesday 2</p>
<p>Have just returned from mission school</p>
<p>Doct [?] addressed the school</p>
<p>Lent to W. Ford five dollars.</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Thursday, January 28, 1864.</p>
<p>Have sent a letter to Father</p>
<p>It has been a very warm day. In the</p>
<p>evening attended a Mission school</p>
<p>[?]. Of all the instructions</p>
<p>in the east or in the west. That</p>
<p>glorious instruction of the school–</p>
<p>room is the best. Do come along.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Friday 29</p>
<p>5cts</p>
<p>20”</p>
<p>Warm and sultry have been drill–</p>
<p>ing the new recruits Eve attend.</p>
<p>ed mission school. I was changed</p>
<p>to one more advanced. had a </p>
<p>short chat with a Miss Taylor</p>
<p>I have made strong resolutions for</p>
<p>the past two or three days that I will</p>
<p>try and relinquish that desire for worldly gain</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Saturday 30</p>
<p>Drilled the recruits. Cleansed the</p>
<p>quarters and got ready for Inspection</p>
<p>Evening attended a prayer meeting, and</p>
<p>took part. “It is more blessed to</p>
<p>give than to receive”</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Sunday, January 31, 1864.</p>
<p>Attended the mission sabbath school</p>
<p>was called upon to the school meet</p>
<p>ing with prayer.</p>
<p>In the afternoon met in the</p>
<p>Theater and listened to a discourse</p>
<p>from our Chaplain</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Monday, February 1</p>
<p>This is rather of a damp day. have</p>
<p>been drilling the new recruits</p>
<p>Eve attended the mission school</p>
<p>After recitations two Gentleman</p>
<p>addressed the school. One was from</p>
<p>New York. “Thou and my foundation</p>
<p>Oh my God.” </p>
<p>Lent 5 dollars to E J Williams</p>
<p>Also 5 dollars to J Stephens</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Tuesday 2</p>
<p>Have just returned from mission school</p>
<p>Doct [?] addressed the school</p>
<p>Lent to W. Ford five dollars.</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Wednesday, February 3, 1864</p>
<p>Called on Lieut Judd & Wife</p>
<p>Wrote a letter to Brother Moses</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thursday 4</p>
<p>Just returned f the mission school</p>
<p>Send a letter to Moses</p>
<p>Mr Coans gave me for the first </p>
<p>time a regular class up stairs</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Friday 5</p>
<p>Received three hundred dollars</p>
<p>from E. J. Williams to keep until</p>
<p>he calls for it</p>
<p>Just returned from M. School</p>
<p>Mr Tilton of Boston ad–</p>
<p>dressed the school</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Saturday, February 6, 1864</p>
<p>Returned from Meeting.</p> <p>Heard a very interesting discourse</p> <p>from our Chaplain</p>
<p>Sent 5 dollars to Wm C. Thayer</p><p> </p>
<p>Sunday 7</p>
<p>Went to Church Text– God reigneth</p>
<p>Let the earth world rejoice</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Monday 8</p>
<p>Visited Fort Monroe and the</p>
<p>outer defences. Also went to</p>
<p>Hampton. Called on Mrs Leymore</p>
<p>and family. Visited the Mc</p>
<p>Clellan Hospital Buildings</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Wednesday, February 3, 1864</p>
<p>Called on Lieut Judd & Wife</p>
<p>Wrote a letter to Brother Moses</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thursday 4</p>
<p>Just returned f the mission school</p>
<p>Send a letter to Moses</p>
<p>Mr Coans gave me for the first </p>
<p>time a regular class up stairs</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Friday 5</p>
<p>Received three hundred dollars</p>
<p>from E. J. Williams to keep until</p>
<p>he calls for it</p>
<p>Just returned from M. School</p>
<p>Mr Tilton of Boston ad–</p>
<p>dressed the school</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Saturday, February 6, 1864</p>
<p>Returned from Meeting.</p> <p>Heard a very interesting discourse</p> <p>from our Chaplain</p>
<p>Sent 5 dollars to Wm C. Thayer</p><p> </p>
<p>Sunday 7</p>
<p>Went to Church Text– God reigneth</p>
<p>Let the earth world rejoice</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Monday 8</p>
<p>Visited Fort Monroe and the</p>
<p>outer defences. Also went to</p>
<p>Hampton. Called on Mrs Leymore</p>
<p>and family. Visited the Mc</p>
<p>Clellan Hospital Buildings</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Tuesday, February 9, 1864.</p>
<p>One more man enlisted in the</p>
<p>company. Have just returned </p>
<p>from school. There were three</p>
<p>hundred and fifteen schollars </p>
<p>present</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Wednesday 10</p>
<p>Drilled the recruits. Eve called</p>
<p>on the Teachers of the Mission School</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thursday 11</p>
<p>Drilled the Recruits [?]</p>
<p>Eve instructed my class in</p>
<p>the M. School</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Friday, February 12, 1864.</p>
<p>Have just returned from School</p>
<p>An order has come to detail eight</p>
<p>men to report to Lieut Newell Co.</p>
<p>A.</p>
<p>Another day has past and gone</p>
<p>Count that day lost.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Saturday 13</p>
<p>Have detailed eight men to report</p>
<p>to Lieut Newl with two days rations</p>
<p>and fully armed and equiped</p>
<p>Eve have just returned from a prayer</p>
<p>meeting</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Sunday 14</p>
<p>Forenoon attended the mission Sabbath</p>
<p>School. I assisted in taking the</p>
<p>names of Scholars</p>
<p>Afternoon met in the Baptist</p>
<p>Church on Cumberland St.</p>
<p>In the eve heard a discourse foun–</p>
<p>ded upon these words As Moses lifted</p>
<p>up the septant in the wilderness. So must</p>
<p>the Son of God be lifted up. It was very impressive</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Tuesday, February 9, 1864.</p>
<p>One more man enlisted in the</p>
<p>company. Have just returned </p>
<p>from school. There were three</p>
<p>hundred and fifteen schollars </p>
<p>present</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Wednesday 10</p>
<p>Drilled the recruits. Eve called</p>
<p>on the Teachers of the Mission School</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thursday 11</p>
<p>Drilled the Recruits [?]</p>
<p>Eve instructed my class in</p>
<p>the M. School</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Friday, February 12, 1864.</p>
<p>Have just returned from School</p>
<p>An order has come to detail eight</p>
<p>men to report to Lieut Newell Co.</p>
<p>A.</p>
<p>Another day has past and gone</p>
<p>Count that day lost.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Saturday 13</p>
<p>Have detailed eight men to report</p>
<p>to Lieut Newl with two days rations</p>
<p>and fully armed and equiped</p>
<p>Eve have just returned from a prayer</p>
<p>meeting</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Sunday 14</p>
<p>Forenoon attended the mission Sabbath</p>
<p>School. I assisted in taking the</p>
<p>names of Scholars</p>
<p>Afternoon met in the Baptist</p>
<p>Church on Cumberland St.</p>
<p>In the eve heard a discourse foun–</p>
<p>ded upon these words As Moses lifted</p>
<p>up the septant in the wilderness. So must</p>
<p>the Son of God be lifted up. It was very impressive</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Monday, February 15, 1864.</p>
<p>Have just returned from an</p>
<p>evening school</p>
<p>The veterans were paid off today</p>
<p>Received the five dollars that W. C.</p>
<p>Thayer owed me. Also five fifty on</p>
<p>a note of B. O. Connells which was to</p>
<p>apply on the Orplan subscription</p>
<p>Also two dollars for the same purpose from E. J. Williams</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Tuesday 16</p>
<p>No School this evening</p>
<p>Morn amid the</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Wednesday 17</p>
<p>Geting our things collected</p>
<p>for a move into Camp</p>
<p>In the after noon move</p>
<p>Eve myself together with</p>
<p>about ten others call on</p>
<p>our Chaplain</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Thursday, February 18, 1864.</p>
<p>Moved out of the city into</p>
<p>camp just south of the Cem–</p>
<p>etery.</p>
<p>Eve called on our Chaplain</p>
<p>by way of supprise</p>
<p>Gathered materials for tents</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Friday 19</p>
<p>The Veterans have returned</p>
<p>this eve.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Saturday 20</p>
<p>Woorked pretty hard getting </p>
<p>our tent up</p>
<p>Had an invitation to </p>
<p>take Tea at Mr Coans</p>
<p>Complyed with the invitation</p>
<p>and attended a meeting at</p>
<p>Professor Woodburgs</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Monday, February 15, 1864.</p>
<p>Have just returned from an</p>
<p>evening school</p>
<p>The veterans were paid off today</p>
<p>Received the five dollars that W. C.</p>
<p>Thayer owed me. Also five fifty on</p>
<p>a note of B. O. Connells which was to</p>
<p>apply on the Orplan subscription</p>
<p>Also two dollars for the same purpose from E. J. Williams</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Tuesday 16</p>
<p>No School this evening</p>
<p>Morn amid the</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Wednesday 17</p>
<p>Geting our things collected</p>
<p>for a move into Camp</p>
<p>In the after noon move</p>
<p>Eve myself together with</p>
<p>about ten others call on</p>
<p>our Chaplain</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Thursday, February 18, 1864.</p>
<p>Moved out of the city into</p>
<p>camp just south of the Cem–</p>
<p>etery.</p>
<p>Eve called on our Chaplain</p>
<p>by way of supprise</p>
<p>Gathered materials for tents</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Friday 19</p>
<p>The Veterans have returned</p>
<p>this eve.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Saturday 20</p>
<p>Woorked pretty hard getting </p>
<p>our tent up</p>
<p>Had an invitation to </p>
<p>take Tea at Mr Coans</p>
<p>Complyed with the invitation</p>
<p>and attended a meeting at</p>
<p>Professor Woodburgs</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Sunday, February 21, 1864.</p>
<p>Went to the sabbath mission</p>
<p>School in the fore part of the</p>
<p>day. After part listened</p>
<p>to a discourse from our</p>
<p>Chaplain in the Baptist</p>
<p>Church on Cumberland St.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Monday 22</p>
<p>Worked hard on tent went</p>
<p>to the Adjutants Gens and</p>
<p>obtained a permit to get</p>
<p>a small cook house on Cathers</p>
<p>St. </p>
<p>Eve went to M. School</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Tuesday 23</p>
<p>Finished building the</p>
<p>bunks and laid the floors</p>
<p>of our tent</p>
<p>Eve had a class as usual</p>
<p>in the M. School</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Wednesday February 24, 1864.</p>
<p>Went on guard was relieved at</p>
<p>four ½ Am. Eve called on Mr.</p>
<p>Coans people. Received two</p>
<p>little Books printed by the America</p>
<p>Tract Society from Miss Haseel</p>
<p>Entitled Incentives and Ades</p>
<p>to labors in Christ’s Mercy and</p>
<p>Earthly Care</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thursday 25</p>
<p>Wrote a letter to M. A. Clark</p>
<p>Eve attended the M. School</p>
<p>How oft alas this wretched heart</p>
<p>has wandered from the Long </p>
<p>How oft my loving thoughts</p>
<p>depart forgetful of his wrong.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Friday 26</p>
<p>In Camp as usual. Eve had</p>
<p>my usual accustomed class</p>
<p>in the M School</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Sunday, February 21, 1864.</p>
<p>Went to the sabbath mission</p>
<p>School in the fore part of the</p>
<p>day. After part listened</p>
<p>to a discourse from our</p>
<p>Chaplain in the Baptist</p>
<p>Church on Cumberland St.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Monday 22</p>
<p>Worked hard on tent went</p>
<p>to the Adjutants Gens and</p>
<p>obtained a permit to get</p>
<p>a small cook house on Cathers</p>
<p>St. </p>
<p>Eve went to M. School</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Tuesday 23</p>
<p>Finished building the</p>
<p>bunks and laid the floors</p>
<p>of our tent</p>
<p>Eve had a class as usual</p>
<p>in the M. School</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Wednesday February 24, 1864.</p>
<p>Went on guard was relieved at</p>
<p>four ½ Am. Eve called on Mr.</p>
<p>Coans people. Received two</p>
<p>little Books printed by the America</p>
<p>Tract Society from Miss Haseel</p>
<p>Entitled Incentives and Ades</p>
<p>to labors in Christ’s Mercy and</p>
<p>Earthly Care</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thursday 25</p>
<p>Wrote a letter to M. A. Clark</p>
<p>Eve attended the M. School</p>
<p>How oft alas this wretched heart</p>
<p>has wandered from the Long </p>
<p>How oft my loving thoughts</p>
<p>depart forgetful of his wrong.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Friday 26</p>
<p>In Camp as usual. Eve had</p>
<p>my usual accustomed class</p>
<p>in the M School</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Saturday, February 27, 1864.</p>
<p>Freed up for inspection</p>
<p>About six o clock was elcteded</p>
<p>to take the place of Co G Sergt</p>
<p>who is put under arrest</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Sunday 28</p>
<p>Inspection by Lieut W. G.</p>
<p>Davis After attended the</p>
<p>M. Sabbath school had a class</p>
<p>At three o clock attended the</p>
<p>regimental meeting on Cumberland</p>
<p>St. <s>Even</s> Text– 2 Cor 4th, 17th & 18th</p>
<p>Even went to Portsmouth.</p>
<p>No meeting</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Monday 20 </p>
<p>This is a very cold damp day</p>
<p>and ruins considerably</p>
<p>Eve stayed in Camp all</p>
<p>the Sergts being gone</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Tuesday, March 1, 1864.</p>
<p>Have been reading and writing </p>
<p>some Have just read a Book entitled</p>
<p>Inside Fort Sumpter</p>
<p>On guard</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Wednesday 2</p>
<p>I came off guard at four o clock</p>
<p>every thing all strait Sergt O. C.</p>
<p>is selected</p>
<p>Eight men and a Corpl</p>
<p>have just started on an ecpidit</p>
<p>–ion with two days rations</p>
<p>and forty rounds of cartridges</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thursdays 3</p>
<p>Have been building me a chim</p>
<p>–ney. Worked hard all day</p>
<p>Eve attended a M. School</p>
<p>“Honor those to whome honor is</p>
<p>due.” then they will honor you</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Saturday, February 27, 1864.</p>
<p>Freed up for inspection</p>
<p>About six o clock was elcteded</p>
<p>to take the place of Co G Sergt</p>
<p>who is put under arrest</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Sunday 28</p>
<p>Inspection by Lieut W. G.</p>
<p>Davis After attended the</p>
<p>M. Sabbath school had a class</p>
<p>At three o clock attended the</p>
<p>regimental meeting on Cumberland</p>
<p>St. Even Text– 2 Cor 4th, 17th & 18th</p>
<p>Even went to Portsmouth.</p>
<p>No meeting</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Monday 20 </p>
<p>This is a very cold damp day</p>
<p>and ruins considerably</p>
<p>Eve stayed in Camp all</p>
<p>the Sergts being gone</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Tuesday, March 1, 1864.</p>
<p>Have been reading and writing </p>
<p>some Have just read a Book entitled</p>
<p>Inside Fort Sumpter</p>
<p>On guard</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Wednesday 2</p>
<p>I came off guard at four o clock</p>
<p>every thing all strait Sergt O. C.</p>
<p>is selected</p>
<p>Eight men and a Corpl</p>
<p>have just started on an ecpidit</p>
<p>–ion with two days rations</p>
<p>and forty rounds of cartridges</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thursdays 3</p>
<p>Have been building me a chim</p>
<p>–ney. Worked hard all day</p>
<p>Eve attended a M. School</p>
<p>“Honor those to whome honor is</p>
<p>due.” then they will honor you</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Friday, March 4, 1864.</p>
<p>Got a pass & Corpl Hawks & </p>
<p>I visited Gety’s Station and the</p>
<p>outer defences. Returned at three</p>
<p>o clock on the Cars. Eve went In</p>
<p>the M. School. But was called out</p>
<p>to go on a march with two days</p>
<p>rations. Got ready and proceeded to Gety</p>
<p>station. Camped in the open field</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Saturday 5</p>
<p>Morning find it rather damp. About</p>
<p>ten fall in to change our position</p>
<p>fall back to the woods. There comes</p>
<p>a thunger shower, we leave fpr tje</p>
<p>Cavelry shelter About three our shelter</p>
<p>tents come. I go to the edge to call out</p>
<p>the Cooks. Tents pitched and beds made</p>
<p>the order comes to go by rail to the front</p>
<p>I get back just in time to go. 9 o clock</p><p>[<i>Continued sidways</i>]</p><p>Moving towards Suffolk</p>
<p>camp within ten miles of the</p>
<p>place In open field</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Sunday 9</p>
<p>About 9 fell back a mile and went into </p>
<p>building at the Celebrated <u>Magnolia</u></p>
<p><u>Salt Sulphur </u>Springs. Gathered some</p>
<p>husks for beding and spent the day</p>
<p>very pleasurably in reading and</p>
<p>meditation. The rebel pickets drivers</p>
<p>in Captured Gen Ransones Orderly </p>
<p>with dispatches </p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Monday, March 7, 1864.</p>
<p>Slept nicely. A bright day. The rebs</p>
<p>all gone. Ten o clock Batallion line is</p>
<p>formed and we unload our pieces</p>
<p>At noon fall in and stack arms</p>
<p>to be ready to start for when the</p>
<p>Team arrives. Three o clock on our way</p>
<p>arrive here before dash. Eve attend M. School</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Tuesday 8</p>
<p>Have been fixing up my Gun, and </p>
<p>things generally. Eve heard my class</p>
<p>recite at the Mission School</p>
<p>While walking and picked up a watch</p>
<p>on Freemason St. found the owner</p>
<p>Miss Dagett</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Wednesday 9</p>
<p>Been to work about my tent built</p>
<p>a gun rack. Made a palce for the</p>
<p>clothing. Eve had an invitation</p>
<p>to spend the evening at
Mr Coans</p>
<p>There were some thirty present</p>
<p>among them there our Chaplain</p>
<p>Were very pleasantly entertained by</p>
<p>Mrs Coans who persented us with refreshments</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Friday, March 4, 1864.</p>
<p>Got a pass & Corpl Hawks & </p>
<p>I visited Gety’s Station and the</p>
<p>outer defences. Returned at three</p>
<p>o clock on the Cars. Eve went In</p>
<p>the M. School. But was called out</p>
<p>to go on a march with two days</p>
<p>rations. Got ready and proceeded to Gety</p>
<p>station. Camped in the open field</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Saturday 5</p>
<p>Morning find it rather damp. About</p>
<p>ten fall in to change our position</p>
<p>fall back to the woods. There comes</p>
<p>a thunger shower, we leave fpr tje</p>
<p>Cavelry shelter About three our shelter</p>
<p>tents come. I go to the edge to call out</p>
<p>the Cooks. Tents pitched and beds made</p>
<p>the order comes to go by rail to the front</p>
<p>I get back just in time to go. 9 o clock</p><p>[<i>Continued sidways</i>]</p><p>Moving towards Suffolk</p>
<p>camp within ten miles of the</p>
<p>place In open field</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Sunday 9</p>
<p>About 9 fell back a mile and went into </p>
<p>building at the Celebrated Magnolia</p>
<p>Salt Sulphur Springs. Gathered some</p>
<p>husks for beding and spent the day</p>
<p>very pleasurably in reading and</p>
<p>meditation. The rebel pickets drivers</p>
<p>in Captured Gen Ransones Orderly </p>
<p>with dispatches </p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Monday, March 7, 1864.</p>
<p>Slept nicely. A bright day. The rebs</p>
<p>all gone. Ten o clock Batallion line is</p>
<p>formed and we unload our pieces</p>
<p>At noon fall in and stack arms</p>
<p>to be ready to start for when the</p>
<p>Team arrives. Three o clock on our way</p>
<p>arrive here before dash. Eve attend M. School</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Tuesday 8</p>
<p>Have been fixing up my Gun, and </p>
<p>things generally. Eve heard my class</p>
<p>recite at the Mission School</p>
<p>While walking and picked up a watch</p>
<p>on Freemason St. found the owner</p>
<p>Miss Dagett</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Wednesday 9</p>
<p>Been to work about my tent built</p>
<p>a gun rack. Made a palce for the</p>
<p>clothing. Eve had an invitation</p>
<p>to spend the evening at
Mr Coans</p>
<p>There were some thirty present</p>
<p>among them there our Chaplain</p>
<p>Were very pleasantly entertained by</p>
<p>Mrs Coans who persented us with refreshments</p></td></tr></table>
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<td><p>Thursday, March 10, 1864.</p>
<p>Morning have been walling in</p>
<p>the Cemetery which is a good place</p>
<p>for reflection</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Friday 11</p>
<p>Fumbled about passing the</p>
<p>day in rather of a dull millitary</p>
<p>style Eve attended the largest </p>
<p>school we have ever had there</p>
<p>being over six hundred present</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Saturday 12</p>
<p>Went to Gety’s Station. In company</p>
<p>with Corpl Hawks Chisles Lincon</p>
<p>Haseel, Winton, Allen, Coan, & Coan 2d.</p>
<p>Also visited Fort Redman and</p>
<p>a part of the line of fortified</p>
<p>stone. Went up on the Cars at 7</p>
<p>Am. and returned by the same con</p>
<p>veyance at 4:45 Pm.</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Sunday, March 13, 1864.</p>
<p>Got ready for inspection</p>
<p>Went to meeting at 11 A.M.</p>
<p>on Church St. in the Episcopal</p>
<p>Church. Alas attended a meet–</p>
<p>ing at the same place at 71/4 o</p>
<p>clock P.M.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Monday 14</p>
<p>Teamed my Gun and fixed</p>
<p>up thing generally</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Tuesday 15</p>
<p>Read a little book entitled</p>
<p>Earthly Care Received it</p>
<p>from Miss Haseel</p>
<p>Men of thought, and men</p>
<p>of action pleas clear the way</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Morning have been walling in</p>
<p>the Cemetery which is a good place</p>
<p>for reflection</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Friday 11</p>
<p>Fumbled about passing the</p>
<p>day in rather of a dull millitary</p>
<p>style Eve attended the largest </p>
<p>school we have ever had there</p>
<p>being over six hundred present</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Saturday 12</p>
<p>Went to Gety’s Station. In company</p>
<p>with Corpl Hawks Chisles Lincon</p>
<p>Haseel, Winton, Allen, Coan, & Coan 2d.</p>
<p>Also visited Fort Redman and</p>
<p>a part of the line of fortified</p>
<p>stone. Went up on the Cars at 7</p>
<p>Am. and returned by the same con</p>
<p>veyance at 4:45 Pm.</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Sunday, March 13, 1864.</p>
<p>Got ready for inspection</p>
<p>Went to meeting at 11 A.M.</p>
<p>on Church St. in the Episcopal</p>
<p>Church. Alas attended a meet–</p>
<p>ing at the same place at 71/4 o</p>
<p>clock P.M.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Monday 14</p>
<p>Teamed my Gun and fixed</p>
<p>up thing generally</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Tuesday 15</p>
<p>Read a little book entitled</p>
<p>Earthly Care Received it</p>
<p>from Miss Haseel</p>
<p>Men of thought, and men</p>
<p>of action pleas clear the way</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Wednesday, March 16, 1864.</p>
<p>Forenoon practiced singing</p>
<p>out of the Bugle Call</p>
<p>At four o clock went on Gaurd</p>
<p>at Widea Water St.</p>
<p>Eve went to the Preachers</p>
<p>at church on Church St.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thursday 17</p>
<p>On Guard until four o clock,</p>
<p>Eve attended the M. School</p>
<p>This is the day the Lord hath on</p>
<p>made. He counts the hours his</p>
<p>own.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Friday 18</p>
<p>Have written a letter to</p>
<p>Makala Eve heard my class</p>
<p>recite in the Mission School</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Saturday, March 19, 1864.</p>
<p>General inspect in at 11 o</p>
<p>clock. After noon received</p>
<p>a note from Oliver Clark Co A.</p>
<p>asking me to be at Mr Coans</p>
<p>at half past one or sooner to</p>
<p>join in an excursion to the</p>
<p>Marine Hospital. Visited had a</p>
<p>pleasant time Mrs Coan & Teachers accom</p>
<p>panied us</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Sunday 20</p>
<p>Company Inspection at 9 ½ o</p>
<p>clock. Attended meeting</p>
<p>at 11 o clock Text Math 6th, 10th</p>
<p>“Thy kingdom come, they will</p>
<p>be done in Earth as it is in</p>
<p>Heaven”</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Monday 21</p>
<p>Came off guard Eve called on</p>
<p>Mr Coans people after School</p>
<p>Have got orders to leave</p>
<p>the city for Gety’s Line of Works</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Wednesday, March 16, 1864.</p>
<p>Forenoon practiced singing</p>
<p>out of the Bugle Call</p>
<p>At four o clock went on Gaurd</p>
<p>at Widea Water St.</p>
<p>Eve went to the Preachers</p>
<p>at church on Church St.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thursday 17</p>
<p>On Guard until four o clock,</p>
<p>Eve attended the M. School</p>
<p>This is the day the Lord hath on</p>
<p>made. He counts the hours his</p>
<p>own.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Friday 18</p>
<p>Have written a letter to</p>
<p>Makala Eve heard my class</p>
<p>recite in the Mission School</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Saturday, March 19, 1864.</p>
<p>General inspect in at 11 o</p>
<p>clock. After noon received</p>
<p>a note from Oliver Clark Co A.</p>
<p>asking me to be at Mr Coans</p>
<p>at half past one or sooner to</p>
<p>join in an excursion to the</p>
<p>Marine Hospital. Visited had a</p>
<p>pleasant time Mrs Coan & Teachers accom</p>
<p>panied us</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Sunday 20</p>
<p>Company Inspection at 9 ½ o</p>
<p>clock. Attended meeting</p>
<p>at 11 o clock Text Math 6th, 10th</p>
<p>“Thy kingdom come, they will</p>
<p>be done in Earth as it is in</p>
<p>Heaven”</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Monday 21</p>
<p>Came off guard Eve called on</p>
<p>Mr Coans people after School</p>
<p>Have got orders to leave</p>
<p>the city for Gety’s Line of Works</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Tuesday, March 22, 1864.</p>
<p>Left the city at 10 o clock. I snow</p>
<p>–ing fast. Grows cold. snow continues</p>
<p>to fall. the wind blows. Reach</p>
<p>Getty’s fortifications. Snow is</p>
<p>pretty deep. the tents are stif and</p>
<p>frozen. Camp in the 10th N H.</p>
<p>for the night</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Wednesday 23</p>
<p>Shoveled off the snow and pre–</p>
<p>pared the ground for pitching the</p>
<p>tents</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thursday 24</p>
<p>I pitched my tent and laid</p>
<p>the floor There are thirteen pitched</p>
<p>in our street</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Friday, March 25, 1864.</p>
<p>Wrote a letter to Mary. been</p>
<p>fixing up my tent and the street</p>
<p>have been heading the life of</p>
<p>one – Nelson</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Saturday 26</p>
<p>Commenced to finish up</p>
<p>our stocading but receive orders</p>
<p>for Co. C. to be ready to leave</p>
<p>here tomorrow morning</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Sunday 27</p>
<p>Moved from camp near fort Keens</p>
<p>two miles to the left and encamped</p>
<p>in a pine grove</p>
<p>Evening had a meeting for </p>
<p>prayer and conference</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Tuesday, March 22, 1864.</p>
<p>Left the city at 10 o clock. I snow</p>
<p>–ing fast. Grows cold. snow continues</p>
<p>to fall. the wind blows. Reach</p>
<p>Getty’s fortifications. Snow is</p>
<p>pretty deep. the tents are stif and</p>
<p>frozen. Camp in the 10th N H.</p>
<p>for the night</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Wednesday 23</p>
<p>Shoveled off the snow and pre–</p>
<p>pared the ground for pitching the</p>
<p>tents</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thursday 24</p>
<p>I pitched my tent and laid</p>
<p>the floor There are thirteen pitched</p>
<p>in our street</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Friday, March 25, 1864.</p>
<p>Wrote a letter to Mary. been</p>
<p>fixing up my tent and the street</p>
<p>have been heading the life of</p>
<p>one – Nelson</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Saturday 26</p>
<p>Commenced to finish up</p>
<p>our stocading but receive orders</p>
<p>for Co. C. to be ready to leave</p>
<p>here tomorrow morning</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Sunday 27</p>
<p>Moved from camp near fort Keens</p>
<p>two miles to the left and encamped</p>
<p>in a pine grove</p>
<p>Evening had a meeting for </p>
<p>prayer and conference</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Monday, March 28, 1864.</p>
<p>Have been fixing up our camp</p>
<p>and stocading the tents</p>
<p>Have written a letter to Father</p>
<p>“Savor the moments rich in bless–</p>
<p>ing which before the cross I spend”</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Tuesday 29</p>
<p>On guard Inspected the guard</p>
<p>The men are stocadeing their tents</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Wednesday 30</p>
<p>Went up to the regimental</p>
<p>Camp. All things move along</p>
<p>smoothly in the Company</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Thursday, March 31, 1864.</p>
<p>Ast officer of the guard.</p>
<p>Visited Fort Ringold in the afternoon</p>
<p>Eve had a sing out of the Jubilee</p>
<p>and prayer in my tent</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Friday, April 1</p>
<p>Still spending our time in</p>
<p>the woods. 9 men on guard</p>
<p>daily out of the company </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Saturday 2</p>
<p>This has been a very rainy</p>
<p>day but I have purchased </p>
<p>a stove of a man by the name</p>
<p>of Brooks which us</p>
<p>very comfortable. Have</p>
<p>been reading a book entitled</p>
<p>Life Dreaming</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Monday, March 28, 1864.</p>
<p>Have been fixing up our camp</p>
<p>and stocading the tents</p>
<p>Have written a letter to Father</p>
<p>“Savor the moments rich in bless–</p>
<p>ing which before the cross I spend”</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Tuesday 29</p>
<p>On guard Inspected the guard</p>
<p>The men are stocadeing their tents</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Wednesday 30</p>
<p>Went up to the regimental</p>
<p>Camp. All things move along</p>
<p>smoothly in the Company</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Thursday, March 31, 1864.</p>
<p>Ast officer of the guard.</p>
<p>Visited Fort Ringold in the afternoon</p>
<p>Eve had a sing out of the Jubilee</p>
<p>and prayer in my tent</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Friday, April 1</p>
<p>Still spending our time in</p>
<p>the woods. 9 men on guard</p>
<p>daily out of the company </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Saturday 2</p>
<p>This has been a very rainy</p>
<p>day but I have purchased </p>
<p>a stove of a man by the name</p>
<p>of Brooks which us</p>
<p>very comfortable. Have</p>
<p>been reading a book entitled</p>
<p>Life Dreaming</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Sunday April 3, 1864.</p>
<p>Had no meeting read some in </p>
<p>the forenoon. afternoon went up to</p>
<p>camp to see if we couldent find where</p>
<p>there was preaching. found non</p>
<p>Eve has a prayer meeting in my tent</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Monday 4</p>
<p>Wrote a letter to Elijah Field</p>
<p>Drilled the servants both fore–</p>
<p>noon and afternoon</p>
<p>This is the anniversary of our Gun</p>
<p>Boat Expedition (Series) at Washington</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Tuesday 5</p>
<p>This has been a very rainy day.</p>
<p>have done my washing. been</p>
<p>reading a book entitled Nelsons</p>
<p>Journal</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Wednesday, April 6, 1864.</p>
<p>Staid in camp all day. drilled</p>
<p>in the morning</p>
<p>Nearer my God to Thee</p>
<p>Nearer to Thee</p>
<p>Even though it bee a cross</p>
<p>That raiseth my</p>
<p>Still all my song shall be</p><p>[<i>Continued sideways</i>]</p>
<p>Nearer my God to thee</p>
<p>Nearer to thee</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thursday 7</p>
<p>I drilled the recruits as usual</p>
<p>Eve had a prayer meeting</p>
<p>Six present besides myself</p>
<p>REceived a piece of Cake. Sent by</p>
<p>Miss Vinton. (friend of the miss jean)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Friday 8</p>
<p>Had no drill. Slicked up the</p>
<p>camp. E Dickinson & I wandered</p>
<p>around in the woods in search</p>
<p>of wild flowers</p>
<p>Received a letter from Cousin E.</p>
<p>Graves and Miller</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Sunday April 3, 1864.</p>
<p>Had no meeting read some in </p>
<p>the forenoon. afternoon went up to</p>
<p>camp to see if we couldent find where</p>
<p>there was preaching. found non</p>
<p>Eve has a prayer meeting in my tent</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Monday 4</p>
<p>Wrote a letter to Elijah Field</p>
<p>Drilled the servants both fore–</p>
<p>noon and afternoon</p>
<p>This is the anniversary of our Gun</p>
<p>Boat Expedition (Series) at Washington</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Tuesday 5</p>
<p>This has been a very rainy day.</p>
<p>have done my washing. been</p>
<p>reading a book entitled Nelsons</p>
<p>Journal</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Wednesday, April 6, 1864.</p>
<p>Staid in camp all day. drilled</p>
<p>in the morning</p>
<p>Nearer my God to Thee</p>
<p>Nearer to Thee</p>
<p>Even though it bee a cross</p>
<p>That raiseth my</p>
<p>Still all my song shall be</p><p>[<i>Continued sideways</i>]</p>
<p>Nearer my God to thee</p>
<p>Nearer to thee</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thursday 7</p>
<p>I drilled the recruits as usual</p>
<p>Eve had a prayer meeting</p>
<p>Six present besides myself</p>
<p>REceived a piece of Cake. Sent by</p>
<p>Miss Vinton. (friend of the miss jean)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Friday 8</p>
<p>Had no drill. Slicked up the</p>
<p>camp. E Dickinson & I wandered</p>
<p>around in the woods in search</p>
<p>of wild flowers</p>
<p>Received a letter from Cousin E.</p>
<p>Graves and Miller</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Saturday, April 9, 1864.</p>
<p>In the morning it commenced</p>
<p>raining gradually but before it</p>
<p>was dark rained quite hard</p>
<p>Sergt Burdick & Corpl Holsten</p>
<p>have gone to the city</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Sunday 10</p>
<p>Attended church on the camp. Preach</p>
<p>–ing by one of the christian commis–</p>
<p>sion Sergt. “Where two or there are</p>
<p>gathered together in my name there</p>
<p>will I be in the midst”</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Monday 11</p>
<p>Drilled as usual</p>
<p>“The Eternal God is my reffuge and</p>
<p>underneath are His everlasting Arm</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Tuesday, April 12 1864.</p>
<p>Went to the city of Norfolk & Ports</p>
<p>mouth. Called and took dinner with</p>
<p>MRs Coans People. Called on the Chaplain</p>
<p>Returned by way of the Navy yard</p>
<p>Part of the Regt are paid off. Have Orders</p>
<p>to be at Gettys Station at 7 tomorrow for Pay</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Wednesday 13</p>
<p>The orders for the stay changed</p>
<p>Order. Be ready with sixty rounds of</p>
<p>Cartridges and move directly for</p>
<p>Getty’s Station. At 12 o clock we were</p>
<p>on our way to Suffolk. Camped</p>
<p>within one mile of S.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thursday 14</p>
<p>Tuesday morning the orders comes</p>
<p>to breakfast and be ready to move</p>
<p>at day light. We marched through S</p>
<p>and a distance of ten miles beyond</p>
<p>and return. Go into camp near </p>
<p>where we encamped the previous</p>
<p>night. Sleep until 2 o clock Am. </p>
<p>when we take the cars and arrive at</p>
<p>Fullcamp Creek at day light. </p></td></tr></table>
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<p>In the morning it commenced</p>
<p>raining gradually but before it</p>
<p>was dark rained quite hard</p>
<p>Sergt Burdick & Corpl Holsten</p>
<p>have gone to the city</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Sunday 10</p>
<p>Attended church on the camp. Preach</p>
<p>–ing by one of the christian commis–</p>
<p>sion Sergt. “Where two or there are</p>
<p>gathered together in my name there</p>
<p>will I be in the midst”</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Monday 11</p>
<p>Drilled as usual</p>
<p>“The Eternal God is my reffuge and</p>
<p>underneath are His everlasting Arm</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Tuesday, April 12 1864.</p>
<p>Went to the city of Norfolk & Ports</p>
<p>mouth. Called and took dinner with</p>
<p>MRs Coans People. Called on the Chaplain</p>
<p>Returned by way of the Navy yard</p>
<p>Part of the Regt are paid off. Have Orders</p>
<p>to be at Gettys Station at 7 tomorrow for Pay</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Wednesday 13</p>
<p>The orders for the stay changed</p>
<p>Order. Be ready with sixty rounds of</p>
<p>Cartridges and move directly for</p>
<p>Getty’s Station. At 12 o clock we were</p>
<p>on our way to Suffolk. Camped</p>
<p>within one mile of S.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thursday 14</p>
<p>Tuesday morning the orders comes</p>
<p>to breakfast and be ready to move</p>
<p>at day light. We marched through S</p>
<p>and a distance of ten miles beyond</p>
<p>and return. Go into camp near </p>
<p>where we encamped the previous</p>
<p>night. Sleep until 2 o clock Am. </p>
<p>when we take the cars and arrive at</p>
<p>Fullcamp Creek at day light. </p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Sunday April 3, 1864.</p>
<p>Had no meeting read some in </p>
<p>the forenoon. afternoon went up to</p>
<p>camp to see if we couldent find where</p>
<p>there was preaching. found non</p>
<p>Eve has a prayer meeting in my tent</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Monday 4</p>
<p>Wrote a letter to Elijah Field</p>
<p>Drilled the servants both fore–</p>
<p>noon and afternoon</p>
<p>This is the anniversary of our Gun</p>
<p>Boat Expedition (Series) at Washington</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Tuesday 5</p>
<p>This has been a very rainy day.</p>
<p>have done my washing. been</p>
<p>reading a book entitled Nelsons</p>
<p>Journal</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Wednesday, April 6, 1864.</p>
<p>Staid in camp all day. drilled</p>
<p>in the morning</p>
<p>Nearer my God to Thee</p>
<p>Nearer to Thee</p>
<p>Even though it bee a cross</p>
<p>That raiseth my</p>
<p>Still all my song shall be</p><p>[<i>Continued sideways</i>]</p>
<p>Nearer my God to thee</p>
<p>Nearer to thee</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thursday 7</p>
<p>I drilled the recruits as usual</p>
<p>Eve had a prayer meeting</p>
<p>Six present besides myself</p>
<p>REceived a piece of Cake. Sent by</p>
<p>Miss Vinton. (friend of the miss jean)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Friday 8</p>
<p>Had no drill. Slicked up the</p>
<p>camp. E Dickinson & I wandered</p>
<p>around in the woods in search</p>
<p>of wild flowers</p>
<p>Received a letter from Cousin E.</p>
<p>Graves and Miller</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Friday April 15, 1864.</p>
<p>Feet are pretty sore from the affects </p>
<p>of this tramp. Orders come to march</p>
<p>the Co. over the regimental head Quarters</p>
<p>for pay</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Saturday 16</p>
<p>Have orders to get ready for</p>
<p>monthly inspection</p>
<p>Have written a letter to Wmls</p>
<p>Ebin. Lent ten dollars in it</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Sunday 17</p>
<p>At halfpast nine fall for</p>
<p>a heavy marching order inspection</p>
<p>Are marched to camp Reno</p>
<p>and inspected by Capt Wilcox</p>
<p>Had no preaching today</p>
<p>Have just had a prayer meeting</p>
<p>in my tent.</p><p>[<i>Written sideways</i>]</p><p>Adjutant Liet of the </p>
<p>27th Died at four o clock p.m.</p></td><td><p> </p>
<p>Monday, April 18, 1864.</p>
<p>Drilled in Camp</p>
<p>“Bear one anothers burdens, and so</p>
<p>fulfill the law of Christ.”</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Tuesday 19</p>
<p>morning mounted the Guard</p>
<p>“And let us not be weary in well</p>
<p>doing, for in due season we shall</p>
<p>reap if we faint not”</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Wednesday 20</p>
<p>Packed up and joined the</p>
<p>Regt at camp Reno</p>
<p>Built Cook house and</p>
<p>Stocaded some tents</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>Thursday, April 21, 1864.</p>
<p>Had Batallion drill</p>
<p>Received orders that if </p>
<p>any are wished to send home</p>
<p>any thing he could not con–</p>
<p>veniently carry on a march. he</p>
<p>could have a chance</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Friday 22</p>
<p>Had batallion drill</p>
<p>Orders are that all boxes</p>
<p>must be sent into head </p>
<p>quarters before ten o clock</p>
<p>tomorrow morning</p>
<p>No dress parade</p>
<p>Sergt– Avery & I are packing.</p>
<p>[<i>Continued sideways</i>]</p>
<p>a box to send home</p><p>[<i>Written sideways</i>]</p>
<p>This being so large</p>
<p>to carry I close here</p>
<p>and take a smaller one</p>
<p>I have got</p>
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<p>Thursday, April 21, 1864.</p>
<p>Had Batallion drill</p>
<p>Received orders that if </p>
<p>any are wished to send home</p>
<p>any thing he could not con–</p>
<p>veniently carry on a march. he</p>
<p>could have a chance</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Friday 22</p>
<p>Had batallion drill</p>
<p>Orders are that all boxes</p>
<p>must be sent into head </p>
<p>quarters before ten o clock</p>
<p>tomorrow morning</p>
<p>No dress parade</p>
<p>Sergt– Avery & I are packing.</p>
<p>[<i>Continued sideways</i>]</p>
<p>a box to send home</p><p>[<i>Written sideways</i>]</p>
<p>This being so large</p>
<p>to carry I close here</p>
<p>and take a smaller one</p>
<p>I have got</p>
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<p>Norfolk V.U. Feb 15</p>
<p>1st – Lent – Corpl L W Ford Five Dollars Received Pamt</p>
<p>1st – Lent – E S Williams Five Dollars Received Pamt</p>
<p>1st – Lent – G. W. Stephens Five Dollars Received Pamt</p>
<p>3d – Lent – Corpl L. W. Ford Five Dollars Received Pamt</p>
<p>3d – Leut – Jason h. River Five Dollars </p>
<p>6 Lent – W.C. Thayer Five Dollars Received Pamt</p></td><td></td></tr></table>
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<p>Norfolk V.U. Feb 15</p>
<p>1st – Lent – Corpl L W Ford Five Dollars Received Pamt</p>
<p>1st – Lent – E S Williams Five Dollars Received Pamt</p>
<p>1st – Lent – G. W. Stephens Five Dollars Received Pamt</p>
<p>3d – Lent – Corpl L. W. Ford Five Dollars Received Pamt</p>
<p>3d – Leut – Jason h. River Five Dollars </p>
<p>6 Lent – W.C. Thayer Five Dollars Received Pamt</p></td><td></td></tr></table>
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Alfred L. Mantor Diary, 1864 (Ms2013-074)
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the Civil War diary of Alfred Mantor, a corporal (and later sergeant) with C Company of the 27th Massachusetts Infantry. Mantor's diary covers January through April of 1864, shortly before he was killed in action in May. Entries focus on his regiment's activities, as well as his personal experiences teaching Sunday school in the Norfolk, Virginia, area.
Alfred L. Mantor, originally a farmer from Hawley, MA, enlisted when he was 25 years old as a Corporal to C Company of the 27th Massachusetts Infantry on September 25, 1861. Mantor was promoted to Sergeant on September 8, 1863. Mantor was killed in action on May 7, 1864 at Port Walthall Junction, VA.
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The Alexandria and Fairfax Counties [Virginia] Civil War Correspondence collection consists of 19 letters by 17 soldiers, and the letters date from 1861 and 1862 and were written by soldiers stationed in and around Alexandria and Fairfax counties and Washington, DC in the first 12-16 months of the Civil War. The majority of the letters were written to family members and contain mostly news from home, camp life, and local events. However, most letters also include some piece of war news or battle/skirmish description and opinions about the war. Some letters include transcripts.
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Alexandria and Fairfax Counties [Virginia] Civil War Correspondence, 1861-1862 (Ms2013-029), J. T. Baskin Letter, October 3, 1861
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Letter from J. T. Baskin to his sister, describing Yankee forces and camp life.
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1/20/2014
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Box 1, Folder 1
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appears to have been written by someone taking dictation from<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p><i>John Carnahan</i>]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Dickensonvill [Dickensonville] May 21st /62</p>
<p>Mr Dear Wife</p>
<p>Once more I take the</p>
<p>opportunity to tell you concerning my</p>
<p>health I have been a little debilitated</p>
<p>[within?] the last few days; but I think</p>
<p>that I am once more improving I</p>
<p>sent for a physician & got some</p>
<p>medicine which I think will benefit</p>
<p>me; the most now that is the mat-</p>
<p>ter with me is weakness but I think</p>
<p>in a few days I will be able to sit</p>
<p>up, We have no news of any importance</p>
<p>I would like very much to hear from</p>
<p>home & to hear what are your conclusions</p>
<p>if there is any danger of the Yankees</p>
<p>getting in. I have heard no news</p>
<p>concerning the enemy in SW Va</p>
<p>for a good while, but I do not [apprehend?]</p>
<p>any danger here. I have not received</p>
<p>a letter from home in two or three</p>
<p>weaks I would like very much to</p>
<p>hear from home. My love to</p>
<p>all my children & other relations</p>
<p>I want to hear from you immediately</p>
<p>Your true & affectionate husband</p>
<p>J.N. Carnahan</p>
<p>P.S. Direct to Dickensonville</p>
<p>Russell Co</p>
<p>Virginia</p>
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<p>[<i>Note: This letter appears to have been written by someone taking dictation from </i><i></i><i>John Carnahan</i>]</p>
<i></i>
<p>Dickensonvill [Dickensonville] May 21st /62</p>
<p>Mr Dear Wife</p>
<p>Once more I take the</p>
<p>opportunity to tell you concerning my</p>
<p>health I have been a little debilitated</p>
<p>[within?] the last few days; but I think</p>
<p>that I am once more improving I</p>
<p>sent for a physician & got some</p>
<p>medicine which I think will benefit</p>
<p>me; the most now that is the mat-</p>
<p>ter with me is weakness but I think</p>
<p>in a few days I will be able to sit</p>
<p>up, We have no news of any importance</p>
<p>I would like very much to hear from</p>
<p>home & to hear what are your conclusions</p>
<p>if there is any danger of the Yankees</p>
<p>getting in. I have heard no news</p>
<p>concerning the enemy in SW Va</p>
<p>for a good while, but I do not [apprehend?]</p>
<p>any danger here. I have not received</p>
<p>a letter from home in two or three</p>
<p>weaks I would like very much to</p>
<p>hear from home. My love to</p>
<p>all my children & other relations</p>
<p>I want to hear from you immediately</p>
<p>Your true & affectionate husband</p>
<p>J.N. Carnahan</p>
<p>P.S. Direct to Dickensonville</p>
<p>Russell Co</p>
<p>Virginia</p>
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John Newton Carnahan Letters (Ms2009-112)
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This collection contains 16 letters written by John Newton Carnahan, a private in Company F, 54th Virginia Infantry, during the Civil War. Dated from camps in Southwest Virginia and eastern Kentucky, the letters are addressed to Carnahan's wife, Juliette Sophia Calfee Carnahan, and children at home in Pulaski County, Virginia.
Carnahan's letters focus largely on personal matters, instructing his children in good behavior and offering his wife counsel on the management of their farm and the sale of produce. He relays news of mutual acquaintances, makes frequent mention of his religious faith, and continually writes of a deep homesickness while pleading for more letters from home. Carnahan notes camp conditions and initially claims his health is much improved by army life, citing the weight he has gained while in service. In later letters, however, he increasingly complains of bowel trouble and states that he is suffering from "colery [cholera] morbus," which today would be diagnosed as acute gastroenteritis.
Departing from personal matters in his letter of December 15, 1861, Carnahan describes the aftermath of what was probably the Battle of Ivy Mountain, Kentucky, though his casualty figures do not match those in the historical record. On January 17, 1862, he briefly writes of the Battle of Middle Creek, Kentucky, in which his regiment had participated a week earlier. Carnahan describes the Middle Creek battle again in a letter dated February 3, 1862, when he also provides a lengthy account of the regiment's movements since the previous November.
Following a three-month gap, the collection resumes with a letter dated May 9, 1862. Not in Carnahan's own hand, this letter and another dated May 21 were dictated, perhaps to his cousin Mary Aston, and find the soldier in ill health in Dickensonville, Virginia.
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Civil War
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John Newton Carnahan, 1824-1862
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<a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00485.xml">John Newton Carnahan Letters, 1861-1862</a>
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Letter, John Carnahan to Wife, Dickensonville Va., May 21, 1862 (Ms2009-112)
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Carnahan, John Newton, 1824-1862
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1862-05-21
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/kad
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Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
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<p>[<i>Note: This letter appears
to have been written by someone taking dictation from<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p><i>John Carnahan</i>]</p>
<p>May 9th /62</p>
<p>My Dear Wife & children</p>
<p>I think it my duty to write to you</p>
<p>to day in order to let you know concerning my health</p>
<p>I am improving; but slowly I can turn myself in</p>
<p>the bed any way now; and can walk a-cross the</p>
<p>room with help Our re<s>i</s>giment is at Abingdon <s>now</s></p>
<p>The report came that the enemy was at at Taswell [Tazewell]</p>
<p>Court House and General Marshals [Humphrey Marshall] brigade
was ordered</p>
<p>to Doublin [Dublin] but when he got to Abingdon he heard</p>
<p>the report was false & did not go any farther</p>
<p>part of his brigade is at the Salt-works I would</p>
<p>not be supprised if the Yankees did not attempt</p>
<p>to get there yet When the report came that the enemy</p>
<p>was coming Col Trigg [Robert C. Trigg] ordered all his sick
to be taken</p>
<p>to Abingdon; but I did not think I was able to</p>
<p>go and concluded I would risk staying & am</p>
<p>glad that I did so, I am going to stay here untill</p>
<p>I get perfectly well I would like very much to see you</p>
<p>all & to know how you are getting along farming,</p>
<p>will you get your corn in this month?</p>
<p>You must try and get along as well as you</p>
<p>poseible can When I get well perhaps I can get a furlough</p>
<p>to come home All of Cousin Mary's family sends their</p>
<p>love to you <s>all</s> I want to hear from you as soon</p>
<p>as possible Direct your letter to Dickensenville Russell Co
Va</p>
<p>Kiss the baby for me Please write soon.</p>
<p>Yours very affectionately</p>
<p>J N Carnahan</p>
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<p>[<i>Note: This letter appears
to have been written by someone taking dictation from</i></p><p><i></i></p><i></i>
<p><i>John Carnahan</i>]</p>
<p>May 9th /62</p>
<p>My Dear Wife & children</p>
<p>I think it my duty to write to you</p>
<p>to day in order to let you know concerning my health</p>
<p>I am improving; but slowly I can turn myself in</p>
<p>the bed any way now; and can walk a-cross the</p>
<p>room with help Our reigiment is at Abingdon now</p>
<p>The report came that the enemy was at at Taswell [Tazewell]</p>
<p>Court House and General Marshals [Humphrey Marshall] brigade
was ordered</p>
<p>to Doublin [Dublin] but when he got to Abingdon he heard</p>
<p>the report was false & did not go any farther</p>
<p>part of his brigade is at the Salt-works I would</p>
<p>not be supprised if the Yankees did not attempt</p>
<p>to get there yet When the report came that the enemy</p>
<p>was coming Col Trigg [Robert C. Trigg] ordered all his sick
to be taken</p>
<p>to Abingdon; but I did not think I was able to</p>
<p>go and concluded I would risk staying & am</p>
<p>glad that I did so, I am going to stay here untill</p>
<p>I get perfectly well I would like very much to see you</p>
<p>all & to know how you are getting along farming,</p>
<p>will you get your corn in this month?</p>
<p>You must try and get along as well as you</p>
<p>poseible can When I get well perhaps I can get a furlough</p>
<p>to come home All of Cousin Mary's family sends their</p>
<p>love to you all I want to hear from you as soon</p>
<p>as possible Direct your letter to Dickensenville Russell Co
Va</p>
<p>Kiss the baby for me Please write soon.</p>
<p>Yours very affectionately</p>
<p>J N Carnahan</p>
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John Newton Carnahan Letters (Ms2009-112)
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This collection contains 16 letters written by John Newton Carnahan, a private in Company F, 54th Virginia Infantry, during the Civil War. Dated from camps in Southwest Virginia and eastern Kentucky, the letters are addressed to Carnahan's wife, Juliette Sophia Calfee Carnahan, and children at home in Pulaski County, Virginia.
Carnahan's letters focus largely on personal matters, instructing his children in good behavior and offering his wife counsel on the management of their farm and the sale of produce. He relays news of mutual acquaintances, makes frequent mention of his religious faith, and continually writes of a deep homesickness while pleading for more letters from home. Carnahan notes camp conditions and initially claims his health is much improved by army life, citing the weight he has gained while in service. In later letters, however, he increasingly complains of bowel trouble and states that he is suffering from "colery [cholera] morbus," which today would be diagnosed as acute gastroenteritis.
Departing from personal matters in his letter of December 15, 1861, Carnahan describes the aftermath of what was probably the Battle of Ivy Mountain, Kentucky, though his casualty figures do not match those in the historical record. On January 17, 1862, he briefly writes of the Battle of Middle Creek, Kentucky, in which his regiment had participated a week earlier. Carnahan describes the Middle Creek battle again in a letter dated February 3, 1862, when he also provides a lengthy account of the regiment's movements since the previous November.
Following a three-month gap, the collection resumes with a letter dated May 9, 1862. Not in Carnahan's own hand, this letter and another dated May 21 were dictated, perhaps to his cousin Mary Aston, and find the soldier in ill health in Dickensonville, Virginia.
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Ms2009-112
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Civil War
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John Newton Carnahan, 1824-1862
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<a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00485.xml">John Newton Carnahan Letters, 1861-1862</a>
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Letter, John Carnahan to Wife and Children, [Dickensonville Va.?], May 9, 1862 (Ms2009-112)
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Carnahan, John Newton, 1824-1862
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1862-05-09
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/kad
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Letters
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Ms2009-112_CarnahanJohnNewton_Letter_1862_0509
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Civil War
Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
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1862-02-16
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<p>Camp Cassel Woods Russell County va</p>
<p>Feb the 16th 1862</p>
<p>Dear Wife and Children</p>
<p>I agane drop you all</p>
<p>a fiew lines informing you I am Injoying good Health</p>
<p>I now weigh one hundred and Eighty five Pounds having</p>
<p>gained Six pounds sins I came heer this is through</p>
<p>the goodness of my Divine Redeemer whome wee</p>
<p>should continually serve and adore for all his good</p>
<p>ness to us from ower Earlyest dayes Down to the</p>
<p>present time and will be to the end of time if</p>
<p>wee only love serve and obay his holy words</p>
<p>I am fortunate in comeing to this Plase and finding</p>
<p>Sutch kind Relatives Mrs Marey Ann Litton</p>
<p>has Dun my washing and mending my Cloaths and</p>
<p>Mrs Jane Dickerson has given me 2 pare of socks</p>
<p>they are verry kind to me all the time and wishes me</p>
<p>to come out and Stay all night sumtime this I have</p>
<p>Declined to Do Cosen Marey Aston is sending for</p>
<p>me to come out to See her frequently This I intend</p>
<p>dooing Shortly if every thing permits I think it is</p>
<p>likely wee will be stationed somewhere in this</p>
<p>[Cou]ntry oposite pound gap or the Road up Sandy</p>
<p>[<i>page torn</i>] to
keep Back Colonel Garfields [James A. Garfield] forces</p>
<p>[t]hose are the forces wee fought at Middle Creek</p>
<p>they Say thare is Eight thousend Mein under his</p>
<p>command thay ware fighting at fort Donelson</p>
<p>2 dayes ago I am Sorry to hear of the <span class='tooltip' title='<a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Roanoke_Island'>Battle of Roanoke Island</a>'>loss of Wises forces</span></p>
<p>
I will be under lasting obligations to you</p>
<p>if you will wright often to me it is the [only?]</p>
<p>Real satisfaction I git is Reading a letter from</p>
<p>you and the Children I have Received but 4 letters</p>
<p>[<i>page torn</i>] you
sins I left camp Hall [<i>page torn</i>]</p>
<p>[<i>page torn</i>] sure I
have written you [<i>page torn</i>]</p>
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<p>Camp Cassel Woods Russell County va</p>
<p>Feb the 16th 1862</p>
<p>Dear Wife and Children</p>
<p>I agane drop you all</p>
<p>a fiew lines informing you I am Injoying good Health</p>
<p>I now weigh one hundred and Eighty five Pounds having</p>
<p>gained Six pounds sins I came heer this is through</p>
<p>the goodness of my Divine Redeemer whome wee</p>
<p>should continually serve and adore for all his good</p>
<p>ness to us from ower Earlyest dayes Down to the</p>
<p>present time and will be to the end of time if</p>
<p>wee only love serve and obay his holy words</p>
<p>I am fortunate in comeing to this Plase and finding</p>
<p>Sutch kind Relatives Mrs Marey Ann Litton</p>
<p>has Dun my washing and mending my Cloaths and</p>
<p>Mrs Jane Dickerson has given me 2 pare of socks</p>
<p>they are verry kind to me all the time and wishes me</p>
<p>to come out and Stay all night sumtime this I have</p>
<p>Declined to Do Cosen Marey Aston is sending for</p>
<p>me to come out to See her frequently This I intend</p>
<p>dooing Shortly if every thing permits I think it is</p>
<p>likely wee will be stationed somewhere in this</p>
<p>[Cou]ntry oposite pound gap or the Road up Sandy</p>
<p>[<em>page torn</em>] to keep Back Colonel Garfields [James A. Garfield] forces</p>
<p>[t]hose are the forces wee fought at Middle Creek</p>
<p>they Say thare is Eight thousend Mein under his</p>
<p>command thay ware fighting at fort Donelson</p>
<p>2 dayes ago I am Sorry to hear of the loss of Wises</p>
<p>forces I will be under lasting obligations to you</p>
<p>if you will wright often to me it is the [only?]</p>
<p>Real satisfaction I git is Reading a letter from</p>
<p>you and the Children I have Received but 4 letters</p>
<p>[<em>page torn</em>] you sins I left camp Hall [<em>page torn</em>]</p>
<p>[<em>page torn</em>] sure I have written you [<em>page torn</em>]</p>
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<p>I shall now Devote a few lines to Domestic Concerns if you
can</p>
<p>Rent your land to advantage to sum Responable person do so</p>
<p>keeping the Best land for your own use or as mutch</p>
<p>as you can conveniantly tend keep your Calves if they</p>
<p>have Dun well this winter turn to the Mountains</p>
<p>your heifer calves and your Sheep you will find</p>
<p>your Sheep will pay well now and as long as [th]is</p>
<p>war lasts the soldiers must have Cloaths and jenes</p>
<p>is the Best ware they can get I will want one Pare</p>
<p>of Pants in the course of Six weeks and if I can not</p>
<p>get a furlough to come home I will Wright for them</p>
<p>to be sent to Brother Samuel W Camahans care at</p>
<p>Abingdon if you would wish to com to See me you</p>
<p>Could do so I would get a young man and his buggy</p>
<p>to meet you at Abingdon ower Cousen here are</p>
<p>anxious to See you and would be glad to have you</p>
<p>with them them for a month and I am sure I</p>
<p>would not object to the arrangement If l cannot</p>
<p>get a furlough I would be glad <s>to do so</s> for you to</p>
<p>come out and Stay a while answer this as soon as this</p>
<p>comes to hand and let me no your wishes on this [Suff? <i>Page torn</i>]</p>
<p>till me how your small grain looks how your[<i>page torn</i>]</p>
<p>looks and all the Rest of the things looks how the</p>
<p>sore place is on John horses jaw is if it is well</p>
<p>till Samuel W Carnahan [jun?] to [loo?] sum for his pappy</p>
<p>and his mo till all the Children that I would be glad</p>
<p>to see them all and see how mutch they have learned</p>
<p>I think they will try and learn all they Can Edwin</p>
<p>R and Miss Margaret Ann has written so often it is</p>
<p>tedious for me to Read their Dailey Communication</p>
<p>[<i>page </i>torn] Affectionate
Husband as long[<i>page torn</i>]</p>
<p>[<i>page </i>torn][Jo]hn
N Carnahan</p>
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<p>I shall now Devote a few lines to Domestic Concerns if you
can</p>
<p>Rent your land to advantage to sum Responable person do so</p>
<p>keeping the Best land for your own use or as mutch</p>
<p>as you can conveniantly tend keep your Calves if they</p>
<p>have Dun well this winter turn to the Mountains</p>
<p>your heifer calves and your Sheep you will find</p>
<p>your Sheep will pay well now and as long as [th]is</p>
<p>war lasts the soldiers must have Cloaths and jenes</p>
<p>is the Best ware they can get I will want one Pare</p>
<p>of Pants in the course of Six weeks and if I can not</p>
<p>get a furlough to come home I will Wright for them</p>
<p>to be sent to Brother Samuel W Camahans care at</p>
<p>Abingdon if you would wish to com to See me you</p>
<p>Could do so I would get a young man and his buggy</p>
<p>to meet you at Abingdon ower Cousen here are</p>
<p>anxious to See you and would be glad to have you</p>
<p>with them them for a month and I am sure I</p>
<p>would not object to the arrangement If l cannot</p>
<p>get a furlough I would be glad to do so for you to</p>
<p>come out and Stay a while answer this as soon as this</p>
<p>comes to hand and let me no your wishes on this [Suff? <i>Page torn</i>]</p>
<p>till me how your small grain looks how your[<i>page torn</i>]</p>
<p>looks and all the Rest of the things looks how the</p>
<p>sore place is on John horses jaw is if it is well</p>
<p>till Samuel W Carnahan [jun?] to [loo?] sum for his pappy</p>
<p>and his mo till all the Children that I would be glad</p>
<p>to see them all and see how mutch they have learned</p>
<p>I think they will try and learn all they Can Edwin</p>
<p>R and Miss Margaret Ann has written so often it is</p>
<p>tedious for me to Read their Dailey Communication</p>
<p>[<i>page </i>torn] Affectionate
Husband as long[<i>page torn</i>]</p>
<p>[<i>page </i>torn][Jo]hn
N Carnahan</p>
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John Newton Carnahan Letters (Ms2009-112)
Description
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This collection contains 16 letters written by John Newton Carnahan, a private in Company F, 54th Virginia Infantry, during the Civil War. Dated from camps in Southwest Virginia and eastern Kentucky, the letters are addressed to Carnahan's wife, Juliette Sophia Calfee Carnahan, and children at home in Pulaski County, Virginia.
Carnahan's letters focus largely on personal matters, instructing his children in good behavior and offering his wife counsel on the management of their farm and the sale of produce. He relays news of mutual acquaintances, makes frequent mention of his religious faith, and continually writes of a deep homesickness while pleading for more letters from home. Carnahan notes camp conditions and initially claims his health is much improved by army life, citing the weight he has gained while in service. In later letters, however, he increasingly complains of bowel trouble and states that he is suffering from "colery [cholera] morbus," which today would be diagnosed as acute gastroenteritis.
Departing from personal matters in his letter of December 15, 1861, Carnahan describes the aftermath of what was probably the Battle of Ivy Mountain, Kentucky, though his casualty figures do not match those in the historical record. On January 17, 1862, he briefly writes of the Battle of Middle Creek, Kentucky, in which his regiment had participated a week earlier. Carnahan describes the Middle Creek battle again in a letter dated February 3, 1862, when he also provides a lengthy account of the regiment's movements since the previous November.
Following a three-month gap, the collection resumes with a letter dated May 9, 1862. Not in Carnahan's own hand, this letter and another dated May 21 were dictated, perhaps to his cousin Mary Aston, and find the soldier in ill health in Dickensonville, Virginia.
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Ms2009-112
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Civil War
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John Newton Carnahan, 1824-1862
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<a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00485.xml">John Newton Carnahan Letters, 1861-1862</a>
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1861-1862
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<p>Russell County Camp Cassel Wood Feb 14th 1862</p>
<p>Dear Wife and Children Ever Dear</p>
<p>I Received</p>
<p>your Wellcome and Kind letter Dated February 5th</p>
<p>which is the 4 letter I have Received from you sins I</p>
<p>left Wytheville in your last you wished wee could</p>
<p>come to ower native State your wish is granted and I am</p>
<p>of opinion wee will not leave it Shortly I must</p>
<p>till you of my good luck sins I cam heer I have</p>
<p>found 2 Cousins and they are verry kind to me indeed</p>
<p>they are in good circumstances one is by the name</p>
<p>of Litton the other Dickerson and Cousin</p>
<p>Mary Aston lives seven miles from here</p>
<p>and is continualy sinding word for me to come</p>
<p>to see her I am truly glad I have found such</p>
<p>good frends here I think wee will stay heer for</p>
<p>sum Time and Cousins sayes they would be glad</p>
<p>to see you if you could get transportation</p>
<p>from Abingdon here you could come to see</p>
<p>me and find sum ather frends that would treat</p>
<p>you well wee are 25 miles from Abingdon</p>
<p>and a good Road all the way wee may all get</p>
<p>furlough yet the Lieutenant Colonel is trying</p>
<p>to get the general to grant furlough to us</p>
<p>and if thara is any granted I will be a mongst</p>
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<p>Russell County Camp Cassel Wood Feb 14th 1862</p>
<p>Dear Wife and Children Ever Dear</p>
<p>I Received</p>
<p>your Wellcome and Kind letter Dated February 5th</p>
<p>which is the 4 letter I have Received from you sins I</p>
<p>left Wytheville in your last you wished wee could</p>
<p>come to ower native State your wish is granted and I am</p>
<p>of opinion wee will not leave it Shortly I must</p>
<p>till you of my good luck sins I cam heer I have</p>
<p>found 2 Cousins and they are verry kind to me indeed</p>
<p>they are in good circumstances one is by the name</p>
<p>of Litton the other Dickerson and Cousin</p>
<p>Mary Aston lives seven miles from here</p>
<p>and is continualy sinding word for me to come</p>
<p>to see her I am truly glad I have found such</p>
<p>good frends here I think wee will stay heer for</p>
<p>sum Time and Cousins sayes they would be glad</p>
<p>to see you if you could get transportation</p>
<p>from Abingdon here you could come to see</p>
<p>me and find sum ather frends that would treat</p>
<p>you well wee are 25 miles from Abingdon</p>
<p>and a good Road all the way wee may all get</p>
<p>furlough yet the Lieutenant Colonel is trying</p>
<p>to get the general to grant furlough to us</p>
<p>and if thara is any granted I will be a mongst</p>
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<p>the first ones that leaves as I am fearful to</p>
<p>Wate till the last as ther ma be sum urgent</p>
<p>Call for us to be at owerpost about the first</p>
<p>of Aprile Thare is six thousend yankeys</p>
<p>now at Paintville [Paintsville] Prestonsburg and Piketon
[Pikeville]</p>
<p>and are sending up in steamboats stores</p>
<p>to those plase to invade virginia from that</p>
<p>point let them come wee trust in the lord of</p>
<p>hosts and will fight on virginias soile</p>
<p>with [?] strength for ower homes and</p>
<p>(wives) + children in my last letter I did not</p>
<p>mention my pet in perticular give him a kiss</p>
<p>for me and ask his forgiveness and give my</p>
<p>love to all my babes I want to see you all</p>
<p>verry mutch I have Seventy five Dollars I</p>
<p>will send hom by first oportunity if I cannot</p>
<p>com home my self I had just sid this morning</p>
<p>that I would not wright home agane untill I got</p>
<p>a letter I had not long to wait (you must wright</p>
<p>oftener) give my love to all the frends the volunteers</p>
<p>are not Drafted for the war and thos in the service</p>
<p>of my age will not be likely to serve agane under</p>
<p>present Regulations unless they wish to do so</p>
<p>your Affectionate Husband J N Carnahan</p>
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<p>the first ones that leaves as I am fearful to</p>
<p>Wate till the last as ther ma be sum urgent</p>
<p>Call for us to be at owerpost about the first</p>
<p>of Aprile Thare is six thousend yankeys</p>
<p>now at Paintville [Paintsville] Prestonsburg and Piketon
[Pikeville]</p>
<p>and are sending up in steamboats stores</p>
<p>to those plase to invade virginia from that</p>
<p>point let them come wee trust in the lord of</p>
<p>hosts and will fight on virginias soile</p>
<p>with [?] strength for ower homes and</p>
<p>(wives) + children in my last letter I did not</p>
<p>mention my pet in perticular give him a kiss</p>
<p>for me and ask his forgiveness and give my</p>
<p>love to all my babes I want to see you all</p>
<p>verry mutch I have Seventy five Dollars I</p>
<p>will send hom by first oportunity if I cannot</p>
<p>com home my self I had just sid this morning</p>
<p>that I would not wright home agane untill I got</p>
<p>a letter I had not long to wait (you must wright</p>
<p>oftener) give my love to all the frends the volunteers</p>
<p>are not Drafted for the war and thos in the service</p>
<p>of my age will not be likely to serve agane under</p>
<p>present Regulations unless they wish to do so</p>
<p>your Affectionate Husband J N Carnahan</p>
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This collection contains 16 letters written by John Newton Carnahan, a private in Company F, 54th Virginia Infantry, during the Civil War. Dated from camps in Southwest Virginia and eastern Kentucky, the letters are addressed to Carnahan's wife, Juliette Sophia Calfee Carnahan, and children at home in Pulaski County, Virginia.
Carnahan's letters focus largely on personal matters, instructing his children in good behavior and offering his wife counsel on the management of their farm and the sale of produce. He relays news of mutual acquaintances, makes frequent mention of his religious faith, and continually writes of a deep homesickness while pleading for more letters from home. Carnahan notes camp conditions and initially claims his health is much improved by army life, citing the weight he has gained while in service. In later letters, however, he increasingly complains of bowel trouble and states that he is suffering from "colery [cholera] morbus," which today would be diagnosed as acute gastroenteritis.
Departing from personal matters in his letter of December 15, 1861, Carnahan describes the aftermath of what was probably the Battle of Ivy Mountain, Kentucky, though his casualty figures do not match those in the historical record. On January 17, 1862, he briefly writes of the Battle of Middle Creek, Kentucky, in which his regiment had participated a week earlier. Carnahan describes the Middle Creek battle again in a letter dated February 3, 1862, when he also provides a lengthy account of the regiment's movements since the previous November.
Following a three-month gap, the collection resumes with a letter dated May 9, 1862. Not in Carnahan's own hand, this letter and another dated May 21 were dictated, perhaps to his cousin Mary Aston, and find the soldier in ill health in Dickensonville, Virginia.
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Letter, John Carnahan to Wife and Children, Camp Castlewood, Russell County Va., February 14, 1862 (Ms2009-112)
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Civil War
Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
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<p>it is verry possable wee will be ordered to Northwestern</p>
<p>Virginia wee are now moveing towards Abingdon and</p>
<p>if I can get a furlough when wee come to the Rail</p>
<p>Road I will com home</p>
<p>[<i>Continued on page 2</i>]</p>
<p>then if my life is spared I will go agane if I must)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>(God Bless and save you all is my Prayer and for me to
return)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>shortly is a sensear wish</p>
<p>my Dear Wife February 3rd 1862</p>
<p>I have concluded to give you a Journal of</p>
<p>ower march from Wytheville <s>to</s> Va to Paintville [Paintsville]
Kentucky</p>
<p>we commensed ower march tuesday at 12 oclock november</p>
<p>1861 wee then Received orders to strike tents and took up
ower</p>
<p>line of march for Prestonsburg Kentucky Floyd County</p>
<p>the Regment in frunt the Artilery next then came the</p>
<p>trasportation wagons wee marched a distince of 5 1/2 miles</p>
<p>that day the next day we started at 8 oclock wee marched</p>
<p>a distince of 13 miles that day stoped at Thomas Shannons</p>
<p>in Bland County took up ower march the next day at 8</p>
<p>oclock crossed Brushy and also the garden mountains [Burkes
Garden]</p>
<p>and pitched ower tents at Mr Harrold Peerys this was a</p>
<p>wet Disagreeable Day and Night Stayed all Night with</p>
<p>Brother Thomas Carnahan marched the next Day to near</p>
<p>Jeffersonsville [Jeffersonville] a distince of 13 miles a Disagreeable
snow</p>
<p>squall fell that night nov 16 took up ower line of march</p>
<p>8 1/2 oclock marched this Day 10 miles and camped at</p>
<p>Liberty Hill we remained at this place untill the 18th</p>
<p>we then left and Crossed Paint lick mountains into the</p>
<p>Rich lands a distence of <s>8</s>9 miles wee Remained at
this</p>
<p>plase untill Nov the 28th wee then took up ower line</p>
<p>of march and camped in the Richlands at Ratlifs [Ratliff]
took</p>
<p>up ower line of march this morning across the Sandy</p>
<p>mountains marched a distence of 20 miles this day</p>
<p>ower wagons did not come up untill about aleven o</p>
<p>Clock la in a Straw pen that Night wee remained heer</p>
<p>untill December 5th wee marched 12 miles and camped on</p>
<p>union mans lands and fed ower teems out of his corn</p>
<p>Dec 6th wee got to Piketon [Pikeville] wee remained at Piketon</p>
<p>Untill December the 10th wee then marched towards</p>
<p>Prestonsburg 14 miles December 11th this day wee</p>
<p>marched twelve miles to Prestonsburg and camped</p>
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<p>it is verry possable wee will be ordered to Northwestern</p>
<p>Virginia wee are now moveing towards Abingdon and</p>
<p>if I can get a furlough when wee come to the Rail</p>
<p>Road I will com home</p>
<p>[<i>Continued on page 2</i>]</p>
<p>then if my life is spared I will go agane if I must)</p><p></p>
<p>(God Bless and save you all is my Prayer and for me to
return)</p><p></p>
<p>shortly is a sensear wish</p>
<p>my Dear Wife February 3rd 1862</p>
<p>I have concluded to give you a Journal of</p>
<p>ower march from Wytheville to Va to Paintville [Paintsville]
Kentucky</p>
<p>we commensed ower march tuesday at 12 oclock november</p>
<p>1861 wee then Received orders to strike tents and took up
ower</p>
<p>line of march for Prestonsburg Kentucky Floyd County</p>
<p>the Regment in frunt the Artilery next then came the</p>
<p>trasportation wagons wee marched a distince of 5 1/2 miles</p>
<p>that day the next day we started at 8 oclock wee marched</p>
<p>a distince of 13 miles that day stoped at Thomas Shannons</p>
<p>in Bland County took up ower march the next day at 8</p>
<p>oclock crossed Brushy and also the garden mountains [Burkes
Garden]</p>
<p>and pitched ower tents at Mr Harrold Peerys this was a</p>
<p>wet Disagreeable Day and Night Stayed all Night with</p>
<p>Brother Thomas Carnahan marched the next Day to near</p>
<p>Jeffersonsville [Jeffersonville] a distince of 13 miles a Disagreeable
snow</p>
<p>squall fell that night nov 16 took up ower line of march</p>
<p>8 1/2 oclock marched this Day 10 miles and camped at</p>
<p>Liberty Hill we remained at this place untill the 18th</p>
<p>we then left and Crossed Paint lick mountains into the</p>
<p>Rich lands a distence of 89 miles wee Remained at
this</p>
<p>plase untill Nov the 28th wee then took up ower line</p>
<p>of march and camped in the Richlands at Ratlifs [Ratliff]
took</p>
<p>up ower line of march this morning across the Sandy</p>
<p>mountains marched a distence of 20 miles this day</p>
<p>ower wagons did not come up untill about aleven o</p>
<p>Clock la in a Straw pen that Night wee remained heer</p>
<p>untill December 5th wee marched 12 miles and camped on</p>
<p>union mans lands and fed ower teems out of his corn</p>
<p>Dec 6th wee got to Piketon [Pikeville] wee remained at Piketon</p>
<p>Untill December the 10th wee then marched towards</p>
<p>Prestonsburg 14 miles December 11th this day wee</p>
<p>marched twelve miles to Prestonsburg and camped</p>
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<tr>
<th>Left Page</th>
<th>Right Page</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p>[<i>Continued from page 1</i>]</p>
<p>then if my life is spared I will go agane if I must)</p>
<p>(God Bless and save you all is my Prayer and for me to
return)</p>
<p>shortly is a sensear wish</p>
<p>[<i>Continued on page 3</i>]</p>
<p>[I?] my hart is all with my wife and childer I will not<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Reinlist agane untill all of the [melitia?] serves one Tower
[tour]<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>of twelve months</p>
<p>on the oposite side of the River December 13the wee</p>
<p>crossed the River and mooved one mile Down in the Same</p>
<p>and Pitched ower tints in a large bottom wee Remained</p>
<p>thare untill the 27the wee then took up ower line of</p>
<p>march for Paintville [Paintsville] Johnson County Ky <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
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<table><tr><th>Left Page</th>
<th>Right Page</th>
</tr><tr><td><p>[<i>Continued from page 1</i>]</p>
<p>then if my life is spared I will go agane if I must)</p>
<p>(God Bless and save you all is my Prayer and for me to
return)</p>
<p>shortly is a sensear wish</p>
<p>[<i>Continued on page 3</i>]</p>
<p>[I?] my hart is all with my wife and childer I will not</p><p></p>
<p>Reinlist agane untill all of the [melitia?] serves one Tower
[tour]</p><p></p>
<p>of twelve months</p>
<p>on the oposite side of the River December 13the wee</p>
<p>crossed the River and mooved one mile Down in the Same</p>
<p>and Pitched ower tints in a large bottom wee Remained</p>
<p>thare untill the 27the wee then took up ower line of</p>
<p>march for Paintville [Paintsville] Johnson County Ky <span></span>this Day</p>
<p>wee marched 7 miles over a verry Rough Road and</p>
<p>Pitched ower tents in a corn Stalk Field December</p>
<p>the 18th wee reached to Paintsville a distince of five miles</p>
<p>wee Remained Thare untill Christmass morning when</p>
<p>it was reported wee if wee Remained thare wee would
be</p>
<p>Surrounded immediately wee then fell back 4 miles up</p>
<p>Sandy River pitched ower tents and commensed fortifying</p>
<p>ower position Provisions becoming verry scarce it</p>
<p>became Necessary for us to fall back as wee had not</p>
<p>a sufficient force to advance further on and the</p>
<p>Enimy ware close on us and on the 6th of January wee</p>
<p>began to fall Back wee then Started ower transportation</p>
<p>wagons in frunt ower artilery next then the Regment in</p>
<p>column wee have had ower Regment in line of</p>
<p>Battle Twice once on christmas morning and one</p>
<p>night on the 5th of January marching half the</p>
<p>Night in the mud Returned at 12oclock that night</p>
<p>and was ordered up at 3 oclock to strike tents with</p>
<p>as little noise as possable this Day the Transportation</p>
<p>wagons went one Road and the Regment another this</p>
<p>Day or night we Slept without tents and Supper</p>
<p>untill the next Night the 8the wee then pitched ower</p>
<p>tents and lay down and the alarm came in at 3oclock</p>
<p>with orders to Strike tents and get under arms without</p>
<p>Breakfast wee did so immediately and commensed falling</p>
<p>Back and camped on middle Creek marching 5 miles</p>
<p>wee Stayed here one Day January 9 wee received orders on</p>
<p>the morning of the 10the to Strike tents and get under</p></td>
<td><p>[<i>Continued from above
page 2</i>]</p>
<p>[I?] my hart is all with my wife and childer I will not</p>
<p>Reinlist agane untill all of the [melitia?] serves one Tower
[tour]</p>
<p>of twelve months</p>
<p>arms as soon as Possable the train had scarsly passed the</p>
<p>forks of the creek when the attact commensed at about</p>
<p>8oclock But the ingagement did not commens in Reality</p>
<p>untill one oclock ower Company and the first Company</p>
<p>ware ordered of about 3 oclock in the Eavening with</p>
<p>2 pieces of Artilery to guard a Road in ower rear wher</p>
<p>thare was a force of fifteen hundred comeing to cut of</p>
<p>ower retreet the Enimy must have lost from 3 to 5 hundred</p>
<p>on that Memorable Day ower loss was 9 killed and 10</p>
<p>wounded Thare was 7 Regments of the Enimy from the</p>
<p>best information we can get wee only fought about</p>
<p>seven hundred all told ower Regment was plased in the</p>
<p>Rear of the cannon to protect it wee ware as mutch</p>
<p>in that fight as though wee wee had fired several
times</p>
<p>the artilery Dun good Execution on that Day wee war</p>
<p>considered the Best Regment and ware plased behind</p>
<p>the Battery in case of the Enimy attempting to take it</p>
<p>wee would come to charge Bayonetts the fight ended</p>
<p>at Dark ower forses in the field and left last wee came</p>
<p>up to the wagons at 2oclock that Night wee moved</p>
<p>Six miles and camped without pitching ower tints the</p>
<p>Regment getting up at 4oclock at night next morn</p>
<p>ing the 12th wee marched 8 miles and pitched ower tints</p>
<p>and stayed at this plase Beaver Creek for the last</p>
<p>Eight Dayes wee have Eat six meals wee left</p>
<p>Beaver Creek and marched five miles and camped on</p>
<p>Caney Creek 14th wee marched tinn miles and on the</p>
<p>15the wee marched 8 miles and camped on Rockhouse</p>
<p>house Creek a fork of Kentucky River Stayed heer</p>
<p>8 Dayes wee Remained at this plase untill Jan 27th</p>
<p>then marched 13 miles passing whitesburg Letcher</p>
<p>County Kentucky movved 4 miles and camped 4</p>
<p>miles west of Pound gap wee are now awaiting orders</p></td>
</tr></table>
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<p>to moove in to virginia or sum where Els</p>
<p>so now you have a full Journal of ower marches but wee</p>
<p>can not get all to bilieve what wee have underwent</p>
<p>now I wish to give you Sophiah my notion about selling</p>
<p>your bacon if this war continues Bacon will be heigh</p>
<p>you must sell when you think you see a chance</p>
<p>for pease or sell when you can get from 16 to 20 cents</p>
<p>it ma be uncertain how long this war ma last or how</p>
<p>soon Pease ma be made Produce will be low comparitivly</p>
<p>when peace is made Butter will continue heigh as long</p>
<p>as this war lasts [jenes?] will be heigh as long as wee are</p>
<p>cut of from commerce in fact all Provisions and Cloaths</p>
<p>of all kinds will be heigh I droped Mr Pratt a</p>
<p>few lines asking him to get you a good hand to</p>
<p>crop with you or rent a part of the land out if</p>
<p>you ware willing to Do so while you have to Stay</p>
<p>thare by your self I am detirmed you shall have your</p>
<p>own way about Everything untill I return home</p>
<p>plant the best land in corn and sow the rest in</p>
<p>oats or as mutch as you can I will get seed oats</p>
<p>for you from Brother Samuel W Carnahan oats</p>
<p>are easly sowen and gathered and a first Rate feed</p>
<p>I have Recieved but 3 letters from you sins I have</p>
<p>left you one at Prestonsburg one at or near Paintville</p>
<p>by F A Owen and one by male Dated December 5<sup>th</sup></p>
<p>this is all the letters I have received from you and</p>
<p>three from Brother SW I got one from him Dated</p>
<p>January 27 he informed me he had inclosed <s>it</s> my last
letter to him to you</p>
<p>this is all the letters I have Received in my last I did</p>
<p>sum what scold you but if you have written often</p>
<p>er I am sure I will freely forgive you if you have not</p>
<p>written oftener try and do so as often as you can</p>
<p>and permit me to subscribe myself your [oen?] owen</p>
<p>Affectionate Husband John N Carnahan</p>
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<p>to moove in to virginia or sum where Els</p>
<p>so now you have a full Journal of ower marches but wee</p>
<p>can not get all to bilieve what wee have underwent</p>
<p>now I wish to give you Sophiah my notion about selling</p>
<p>your bacon if this war continues Bacon will be heigh</p>
<p>you must sell when you think you see a chance</p>
<p>for pease or sell when you can get from 16 to 20 cents</p>
<p>it ma be uncertain how long this war ma last or how</p>
<p>soon Pease ma be made Produce will be low comparitivly</p>
<p>when peace is made Butter will continue heigh as long</p>
<p>as this war lasts [jenes?] will be heigh as long as wee are</p>
<p>cut of from commerce in fact all Provisions and Cloaths</p>
<p>of all kinds will be heigh I droped Mr Pratt a</p>
<p>few lines asking him to get you a good hand to</p>
<p>crop with you or rent a part of the land out if</p>
<p>you ware willing to Do so while you have to Stay</p>
<p>thare by your self I am detirmed you shall have your</p>
<p>own way about Everything untill I return home</p>
<p>plant the best land in corn and sow the rest in</p>
<p>oats or as mutch as you can I will get seed oats</p>
<p>for you from Brother Samuel W Carnahan oats</p>
<p>are easly sowen and gathered and a first Rate feed</p>
<p>I have Recieved but 3 letters from you sins I have</p>
<p>left you one at Prestonsburg one at or near Paintville</p>
<p>by F A Owen and one by male Dated December 5<sup>th</sup></p>
<p>this is all the letters I have received from you and</p>
<p>three from Brother SW I got one from him Dated</p>
<p>January 27 he informed me he had inclosed it my last
letter to him to you</p>
<p>this is all the letters I have Received in my last I did</p>
<p>sum what scold you but if you have written often</p>
<p>er I am sure I will freely forgive you if you have not</p>
<p>written oftener try and do so as often as you can</p>
<p>and permit me to subscribe myself your [oen?] owen</p>
<p>Affectionate Husband John N Carnahan</p>
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This collection contains 16 letters written by John Newton Carnahan, a private in Company F, 54th Virginia Infantry, during the Civil War. Dated from camps in Southwest Virginia and eastern Kentucky, the letters are addressed to Carnahan's wife, Juliette Sophia Calfee Carnahan, and children at home in Pulaski County, Virginia.
Carnahan's letters focus largely on personal matters, instructing his children in good behavior and offering his wife counsel on the management of their farm and the sale of produce. He relays news of mutual acquaintances, makes frequent mention of his religious faith, and continually writes of a deep homesickness while pleading for more letters from home. Carnahan notes camp conditions and initially claims his health is much improved by army life, citing the weight he has gained while in service. In later letters, however, he increasingly complains of bowel trouble and states that he is suffering from "colery [cholera] morbus," which today would be diagnosed as acute gastroenteritis.
Departing from personal matters in his letter of December 15, 1861, Carnahan describes the aftermath of what was probably the Battle of Ivy Mountain, Kentucky, though his casualty figures do not match those in the historical record. On January 17, 1862, he briefly writes of the Battle of Middle Creek, Kentucky, in which his regiment had participated a week earlier. Carnahan describes the Middle Creek battle again in a letter dated February 3, 1862, when he also provides a lengthy account of the regiment's movements since the previous November.
Following a three-month gap, the collection resumes with a letter dated May 9, 1862. Not in Carnahan's own hand, this letter and another dated May 21 were dictated, perhaps to his cousin Mary Aston, and find the soldier in ill health in Dickensonville, Virginia.
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<p>Letcher County Ky. January 26the 1862</p>
<p>Twenty miles north Pound gap</p>
<p>Dear Wife</p>
<p>God has blessed me with</p>
<p>good health Ever sins I have ben in the</p>
<p>Survice I am freer from pain now than</p>
<p>I have ben in the last tenn years it is</p>
<p>trew I have a bad cold occasionly and I</p>
<p>feel Bad then and a bad Bowel Complaint</p>
<p>occasionly the latter Prevails in the Camp</p>
<p>all the time wee have ben at this Place</p>
<p>Eight Dayes Resting and awaiting orders</p>
<p>from the War Department ordering us out</p>
<p>of here we are now living as lasy a life as men</p>
<p>can live dooing nothing but Eat Colonel</p>
<p>Trigg [Robert C. Trigg] sayes his men shall Rest we have no</p>
<p>guard Duty to do no Role Calls to answer</p>
<p>wee can go to bed at Dark and lay all</p>
<p>night and Day if we choose to do so this</p>
<p>is a beauitiful frosty Sabeth morning the</p>
<p>Blewbirds are singing all Round us which</p>
<p>makes me wish I as at home and Peace</p>
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<p>Letcher County Ky. January 26the 1862</p>
<p>Twenty miles north Pound gap</p>
<p>Dear Wife</p>
<p>God has blessed me with</p>
<p>good health Ever sins I have ben in the</p>
<p>Survice I am freer from pain now than</p>
<p>I have ben in the last tenn years it is</p>
<p>trew I have a bad cold occasionly and I</p>
<p>feel Bad then and a bad Bowel Complaint</p>
<p>occasionly the latter Prevails in the Camp</p>
<p>all the time wee have ben at this Place</p>
<p>Eight Dayes Resting and awaiting orders</p>
<p>from the War Department ordering us out</p>
<p>of here we are now living as lasy a life as men</p>
<p>can live dooing nothing but Eat Colonel</p>
<p>Trigg [Robert C. Trigg] sayes his men shall Rest we have no</p>
<p>guard Duty to do no Role Calls to answer</p>
<p>wee can go to bed at Dark and lay all</p>
<p>night and Day if we choose to do so this</p>
<p>is a beauitiful frosty Sabeth morning the</p>
<p>Blewbirds are singing all Round us which</p>
<p>makes me wish I as at home and Peace</p>
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<table>
<tr>
<th>Left Page</th>
<th>Right Page</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p>made I am sure if I live to Return home</p>
<p>I will Injoy the sweets of liberty moore than</p>
<p>I have evr Dun if I am spared Sound in</p>
<p>Boddy and mind and my family greets my</p>
<p>Return as I hope they will, I have been awaiting</p>
<p>a letter from home for sum time and negleting</p>
<p>wrighting home and when I am Disappointed</p>
<p>from male to male I become allmost</p>
<p>hart Sick seeing others get 3 or 4 letters</p>
<p>at a time and I Doomed to Disappoint</p>
<p>ment I allmost came to the conclusion</p>
<p>that I am forgotten at home or at best</p>
<p>is thought of but Seldom when the last</p>
<p>male came in and I got no letters I thought</p>
<p>I would not wright any moore to any boddy</p>
<p>where is Edwin and Margaret Ann</p>
<p>I have ben out from home allmost five</p>
<p>months and no letter from them yet if</p>
<p>if they neglect me any longer I must</p>
<p>suppose they have (forgotten me) I have</p>
<p>my Baby Boys hare as neer my hart as I can</p>
<p>ware it and thare is not a Day passing</p></td>
<td>
<p>over my head that I do not think of him and</p>
<p>all of you and I hop the good lord will stop</p>
<p>this unnatural war and let us Return home</p>
<p>to ower Families and Prase and Adore his</p>
<p>holy name for future generations to come</p>
<p>in the Battle of the 10th ower loss was but tenn</p>
<p>killed and [six?] wounded the loss of the Enimy</p>
<p>was severe from 3 to five hundred killed</p>
<p>I am Sure I will have the Deeds of that Day</p>
<p>to be recorded by future historian through</p>
<p>the goodness of god my life was spared</p>
<p>and that of all of ower Regments but the</p>
<p>Balls passed over thim as thick as a Summer</p>
<p>hale storm and sum of the Boys [lay?] [?]</p>
<p>on the ground one side Cheering for</p>
<p>Abe Lincon [Abraham Lincoln] and the union the other for</p>
<p>Jef Daves [Jefferson Davis] and the Southern Confederacy</p>
<p>if men ware as True to their god as they</p>
<p>are to their Country wares would soon</p>
<p>seas and the Lord Praised from sea to see</p>
<p>from hill to hill the Echo of Prais would</p>
<p>Ring and man his creators praise sing</p></td>
</tr>
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<table><tr><th>Left Page</th>
<th>Right Page</th>
</tr><tr><td><p>made I am sure if I live to Return home</p>
<p>I will Injoy the sweets of liberty moore than</p>
<p>I have evr Dun if I am spared Sound in</p>
<p>Boddy and mind and my family greets my</p>
<p>Return as I hope they will, I have been awaiting</p>
<p>a letter from home for sum time and negleting</p>
<p>wrighting home and when I am Disappointed</p>
<p>from male to male I become allmost</p>
<p>hart Sick seeing others get 3 or 4 letters</p>
<p>at a time and I Doomed to Disappoint</p>
<p>ment I allmost came to the conclusion</p>
<p>that I am forgotten at home or at best</p>
<p>is thought of but Seldom when the last</p>
<p>male came in and I got no letters I thought</p>
<p>I would not wright any moore to any boddy</p>
<p>where is Edwin and Margaret Ann</p>
<p>I have ben out from home allmost five</p>
<p>months and no letter from them yet if</p>
<p>if they neglect me any longer I must</p>
<p>suppose they have (forgotten me) I have</p>
<p>my Baby Boys hare as neer my hart as I can</p>
<p>ware it and thare is not a Day passing</p></td>
<td>
<p>over my head that I do not think of him and</p>
<p>all of you and I hop the good lord will stop</p>
<p>this unnatural war and let us Return home</p>
<p>to ower Families and Prase and Adore his</p>
<p>holy name for future generations to come</p>
<p>in the Battle of the 10th ower loss was but tenn</p>
<p>killed and [six?] wounded the loss of the Enimy</p>
<p>was severe from 3 to five hundred killed</p>
<p>I am Sure I will have the Deeds of that Day</p>
<p>to be recorded by future historian through</p>
<p>the goodness of god my life was spared</p>
<p>and that of all of ower Regments but the</p>
<p>Balls passed over thim as thick as a Summer</p>
<p>hale storm and sum of the Boys [lay?] [?]</p>
<p>on the ground one side Cheering for</p>
<p>Abe Lincon [Abraham Lincoln] and the union the other for</p>
<p>Jef Daves [Jefferson Davis] and the Southern Confederacy</p>
<p>if men ware as True to their god as they</p>
<p>are to their Country wares would soon</p>
<p>seas and the Lord Praised from sea to see</p>
<p>from hill to hill the Echo of Prais would</p>
<p>Ring and man his creators praise sing</p></td>
</tr></table>
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<p>if wee are ordered Back to Abingdon</p>
<p>Shortly and from thare to Boleing green [Bowling Green, KY]</p>
<p>I will wright you as soon as wee get</p>
<p>the order as I will want sum Cloaths</p>
<p>I left my [fateegue?] shirt and gray Pants</p>
<p>in Bland County va with sum of the</p>
<p>officers Cloaths and my Black pants and</p>
<p>my uniform pants are wareing out I</p>
<p>have mended them Boath in the seat</p>
<p>I can mend verry well getting Patches</p>
<p>is the wourst thing for me to doo in</p>
<p>camp give my love to all Enquiring</p>
<p>frends your Affectionate husband</p>
<p>John N Carnahan</p>
<p>Direct your letters as usual</p>
<p>January 29 five miles from pound gap</p>
<p>as I could male this at the Regular male</p>
<p>Day I Drop you a line agane Saying</p>
<p>I am Not so well to Day haveing a Spell</p>
<p>of Colery [Cholera] Morbus and it has lasted me</p>
<p>for the last 2 dayes</p>
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<p>if wee are ordered Back to Abingdon</p>
<p>Shortly and from thare to Boleing green [Bowling Green, KY]</p>
<p>I will wright you as soon as wee get</p>
<p>the order as I will want sum Cloaths</p>
<p>I left my [fateegue?] shirt and gray Pants</p>
<p>in Bland County va with sum of the</p>
<p>officers Cloaths and my Black pants and</p>
<p>my uniform pants are wareing out I</p>
<p>have mended them Boath in the seat</p>
<p>I can mend verry well getting Patches</p>
<p>is the wourst thing for me to doo in</p>
<p>camp give my love to all Enquiring</p>
<p>frends your Affectionate husband</p>
<p>John N Carnahan</p>
<p>Direct your letters as usual</p>
<p>January 29 five miles from pound gap</p>
<p>as I could male this at the Regular male</p>
<p>Day I Drop you a line agane Saying</p>
<p>I am Not so well to Day haveing a Spell</p>
<p>of Colery [Cholera] Morbus and it has lasted me</p>
<p>for the last 2 dayes</p>
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This collection contains 16 letters written by John Newton Carnahan, a private in Company F, 54th Virginia Infantry, during the Civil War. Dated from camps in Southwest Virginia and eastern Kentucky, the letters are addressed to Carnahan's wife, Juliette Sophia Calfee Carnahan, and children at home in Pulaski County, Virginia.
Carnahan's letters focus largely on personal matters, instructing his children in good behavior and offering his wife counsel on the management of their farm and the sale of produce. He relays news of mutual acquaintances, makes frequent mention of his religious faith, and continually writes of a deep homesickness while pleading for more letters from home. Carnahan notes camp conditions and initially claims his health is much improved by army life, citing the weight he has gained while in service. In later letters, however, he increasingly complains of bowel trouble and states that he is suffering from "colery [cholera] morbus," which today would be diagnosed as acute gastroenteritis.
Departing from personal matters in his letter of December 15, 1861, Carnahan describes the aftermath of what was probably the Battle of Ivy Mountain, Kentucky, though his casualty figures do not match those in the historical record. On January 17, 1862, he briefly writes of the Battle of Middle Creek, Kentucky, in which his regiment had participated a week earlier. Carnahan describes the Middle Creek battle again in a letter dated February 3, 1862, when he also provides a lengthy account of the regiment's movements since the previous November.
Following a three-month gap, the collection resumes with a letter dated May 9, 1862. Not in Carnahan's own hand, this letter and another dated May 21 were dictated, perhaps to his cousin Mary Aston, and find the soldier in ill health in Dickensonville, Virginia.
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<p>Camp on Beaver Creek 40 miles from Pound gap</p>
<p>Dec January 17the 1861 [1862]</p>
<p>Dear Wife and Children</p>
<p>Through the Blessings of a</p>
<p>kind Providence I am still in the land of the living</p>
<p>and except a bad bowel Complaint am enjoying good</p>
<p>health wee met the Enimy on the 10the of this month</p>
<p>3 miles west of Prestonsburg and gave him Battle ower</p>
<p>loss was 10 killed and sum 15 wounded their loss is estimated</p>
<p>at from 3 to 5 hundred their loss must ben grate or they</p>
<p>would have attacked us agane the fight began about one</p>
<p>oclock and lasted untill after Dark leaving ower men</p>
<p>in possession of the Battlefield ower men [got?] of their ded</p>
<p>and wounded that Night and wee are still making ower</p>
<p>way sloley to Pound gap and it is supposed wee will</p>
<p>go to Abingdon thare to await orders from the war</p>
<p>Department wee may go to into winter quarters</p>
<p>for a while unless ower Presence is needed</p>
<p>badly Elswhere Colonel Triggs [Robert C. Trigg] Regment did not fire</p>
<p>a gun ower company and Capton Dickersons [Andrew Dickerson] Company</p>
<p>ware ordered a way with 2 cannon 3 miles from the</p>
<p>battlefield to guard a Road comeing from Salliersville [Salyersville, KY]</p>
<p>supposed a Company of fifteen hundred war advanseing</p>
<p>on us in that Direction wee Stayed 2 owers after the</p>
<p>Ball was opened ower Regment was as cool as a summer</p>
<p>Spring in a Shady grove Colonel calls us his Bull</p>
<p>dogs and General Marshall [Humphrey Marshall] sayes wee are the Boyes</p>
<p>that pleases him wee arr cool he makes his quarters</p>
<p>close to ower Regment at the Begining of the ingagement</p>
<p>Col Trigs [Robert C. Trigg] Regment was stationed behind Capton</p>
<p>Jefferey Artilery Company to guard the Artilery</p>
<p>in cas of a charge I felt Safe all the time trusting</p>
<p>to God to guard me on the Battlefield as well as</p>
<p>at home I prommised you when I left you my</p>
<p>pen should convey the Truth and nothing Els</p>
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<p>Camp on Beaver Creek 40 miles from Pound gap</p>
<p><s>Dec</s> January 17the 1861 [1862]</p>
<p>Dear Wife and Children</p>
<p>Through the Blessings of a</p>
<p>kind Providence I am still in the land of the living</p>
<p>and except a bad bowel Complaint am enjoying good</p>
<p>health wee met the Enimy on the 10the of this month</p>
<p>3 miles west of Prestonsburg and gave him Battle ower</p>
<p>loss was 10 killed and sum 15 wounded their loss is
estimated</p>
<p>at from 3 to 5 hundred their loss must ben grate or they</p>
<p>would have attacked us agane the fight began about one</p>
<p>oclock and lasted untill after Dark leaving ower men</p>
<p>in possession of the Battlefield ower men [got?] of their
ded</p>
<p>and wounded that Night and wee are still making ower</p>
<p>way sloley to Pound gap and it is supposed wee will</p>
<p>go to Abingdon thare to await orders from the war</p>
<p>Department wee may go to into winter quarters</p>
<p>for a while unless ower Presence is needed</p>
<p>badly Elswhere Colonel Triggs [Robert C. Trigg] Regment did
not fire</p>
<p>a gun ower company and Capton Dickersons [Andrew Dickerson] Company</p>
<p>ware ordered a way with 2 cannon 3 miles from the</p>
<p>battlefield to guard a Road comeing from Salliersville
[Salyersville, KY]</p>
<p>supposed a Company of fifteen hundred war advanseing</p>
<p>on us in that Direction wee Stayed 2 owers after the</p>
<p>Ball was opened ower Regment was as cool as a summer</p>
<p>Spring in a Shady grove Colonel calls us his Bull</p>
<p>dogs and General Marshall [Humphrey Marshall] sayes wee are
the Boyes</p>
<p>that pleases him wee arr cool he makes his quarters</p>
<p>close to ower Regment at the Begining of the ingagement</p>
<p>Col Trigs [Robert C. Trigg] Regment was stationed behind Capton</p>
<p>Jefferey Artilery Company to guard the Artilery</p>
<p>in cas of a charge I felt Safe all the time trusting</p>
<p>to God to guard me on the Battlefield as well as</p>
<p>at home I prommised you when I left you my</p>
<p>pen should convey the Truth and nothing Els</p>
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<p>so I will till you about ower suffering here wee </p>
<p>have seen the Eliphant Ever sins Christmass wee went</p>
<p>8 Dayes on six meals laying 3 nights without Pitching</p>
<p>ower tents and infact wee have went on half Rations</p>
<p>Ever sins wee <s>will</s> have ben in Kentucky I weighed</p>
<p>yestarday and weighed 183 pound when I went into camp</p>
<p>at Christiansburg I wayed 168 pounds you will</p>
<p>hear of men Suffering but it is frequently made larger</p>
<p>than what it Realy is I do believe this Regment</p>
<p>has marched further than any other in the Southern</p>
<p>Confederacy wee ar sure to fix ower tents with a good</p>
<p>bed of straw or leaves or corn stalks or Brush or</p>
<p>[Reades?] wee Baked ower Bred one night on fense Rails</p>
<p>so we get a nough wee are contented with ower lot</p>
<p>this is a hasty written letter and you must excus</p>
<p>this if it is not as satisfactory as you could wish</p>
<p>but you will hear of the Battle through the Papers</p>
<p>I mus till you Colonel Moore lost in the ingage</p>
<p>ment 5 men
and Colonel Williams [John S. Williams] 5 men</p>
<p>I received your verry kind letter Dated on the 5 of
this</p>
<p>month and hesitated in wrighting this untill</p>
<p>I new sumwhat mor of ower Destination</p>
<p>and would have Dun so if it had not ben to calm</p>
<p>your feeres on my account you must Still</p>
<p>Supplicate a throne of [grane?] on my behalf</p>
<p>I forget you not Day or nigh I have got the</p>
<p>lock of my boys hare next my hart o how I long</p>
<p>to see him and you all Direct your letters</p>
<p>as usual your Affectionate Husband</p>
<p>John N Carnahan</p>
<p>The Agetant [Adjutant] gave me a Belgium Rifle the</p>
<p>Day after the Battle this shoots 6 hundred yards</p>
<p>If l Return home it shall come with me as a trophy</p>
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<p>so I will till you about ower suffering here wee </p>
<p>have seen the Eliphant Ever sins Christmass wee went</p>
<p>8 Dayes on six meals laying 3 nights without Pitching</p>
<p>ower tents and infact wee have went on half Rations</p>
<p>Ever sins wee will have ben in Kentucky I weighed</p>
<p>yestarday and weighed 183 pound when I went into camp</p>
<p>at Christiansburg I wayed 168 pounds you will</p>
<p>hear of men Suffering but it is frequently made larger</p>
<p>than what it Realy is I do believe this Regment</p>
<p>has marched further than any other in the Southern</p>
<p>Confederacy wee ar sure to fix ower tents with a good</p>
<p>bed of straw or leaves or corn stalks or Brush or</p>
<p>[Reades?] wee Baked ower Bred one night on fense Rails</p>
<p>so we get a nough wee are contented with ower lot</p>
<p>this is a hasty written letter and you must excus</p>
<p>this if it is not as satisfactory as you could wish</p>
<p>but you will hear of the Battle through the Papers</p>
<p>I mus till you Colonel Moore lost in the ingage</p>
<p>ment 5 men
and Colonel Williams [John S. Williams] 5 men</p>
<p>I received your verry kind letter Dated on the 5 of
this</p>
<p>month and hesitated in wrighting this untill</p>
<p>I new sumwhat mor of ower Destination</p>
<p>and would have Dun so if it had not ben to calm</p>
<p>your feeres on my account you must Still</p>
<p>Supplicate a throne of [grane?] on my behalf</p>
<p>I forget you not Day or nigh I have got the</p>
<p>lock of my boys hare next my hart o how I long</p>
<p>to see him and you all Direct your letters</p>
<p>as usual your Affectionate Husband</p>
<p>John N Carnahan</p>
<p>The Agetant [Adjutant] gave me a Belgium Rifle the</p>
<p>Day after the Battle this shoots 6 hundred yards</p>
<p>If l Return home it shall come with me as a trophy</p>
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This collection contains 16 letters written by John Newton Carnahan, a private in Company F, 54th Virginia Infantry, during the Civil War. Dated from camps in Southwest Virginia and eastern Kentucky, the letters are addressed to Carnahan's wife, Juliette Sophia Calfee Carnahan, and children at home in Pulaski County, Virginia.
Carnahan's letters focus largely on personal matters, instructing his children in good behavior and offering his wife counsel on the management of their farm and the sale of produce. He relays news of mutual acquaintances, makes frequent mention of his religious faith, and continually writes of a deep homesickness while pleading for more letters from home. Carnahan notes camp conditions and initially claims his health is much improved by army life, citing the weight he has gained while in service. In later letters, however, he increasingly complains of bowel trouble and states that he is suffering from "colery [cholera] morbus," which today would be diagnosed as acute gastroenteritis.
Departing from personal matters in his letter of December 15, 1861, Carnahan describes the aftermath of what was probably the Battle of Ivy Mountain, Kentucky, though his casualty figures do not match those in the historical record. On January 17, 1862, he briefly writes of the Battle of Middle Creek, Kentucky, in which his regiment had participated a week earlier. Carnahan describes the Middle Creek battle again in a letter dated February 3, 1862, when he also provides a lengthy account of the regiment's movements since the previous November.
Following a three-month gap, the collection resumes with a letter dated May 9, 1862. Not in Carnahan's own hand, this letter and another dated May 21 were dictated, perhaps to his cousin Mary Aston, and find the soldier in ill health in Dickensonville, Virginia.
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United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
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<p>January 5the 1861[1862]</p>
<p>3 Miles Above Paintville Kentucky</p>
<p>Dear Wife</p>
<p>I received a letter from you by Mr</p>
<p>Flemming A Owen and hasten to Answer it</p>
<p>This is my 9the letter to you sins I left Wythe</p>
<p>ville and have Received but 2 from you sins</p>
<p>I left thare one came up to me at Prestonsburg</p>
<p>by sum transportation Wagons and I received</p>
<p>one letter from Brother Samual W Carnahan</p>
<p>and a news Paper Brother letter was written on</p>
<p>the 25 of December in which he informed me</p>
<p>he would go to Pulaski County Sumtime in</p>
<p>this month and see how you all ware comeing on</p>
<p>I will wright to him often and to you all once</p>
<p>a week I think you will find him a friend in</p>
<p>nead and I think that you will find he is not</p>
<p>well Pleased with his over seer when they come</p>
<p>to Settle he will find too much turned to cash</p>
<p>on him when he could have Payed it with</p>
<p>traid this is my notion of things Time alone</p>
<p>will open ower Eyes Sisters will never forgive</p>
<p>me for Spending So mutch money on that</p>
<p>land and now they are thare with all of</p>
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<p>January 5the 1861[1862]</p>
<p>3 Miles Above Paintville Kentucky</p>
<p>Dear Wife</p>
<p>I received a letter from you by Mr</p>
<p>Flemming A Owen and hasten to Answer it</p>
<p>This is my 9the letter to you sins I left Wythe</p>
<p>ville and have Received but 2 from you sins</p>
<p>I left thare one came up to me at Prestonsburg</p>
<p>by sum transportation Wagons and I received</p>
<p>one letter from Brother Samual W Carnahan</p>
<p>and a news Paper Brother letter was written on</p>
<p>the 25 of December in which he informed me</p>
<p>he would go to Pulaski County Sumtime in</p>
<p>this month and see how you all ware comeing on</p>
<p>I will wright to him often and to you all once</p>
<p>a week I think you will find him a friend in</p>
<p>nead and I think that you will find he is not</p>
<p>well Pleased with his over seer when they come</p>
<p>to Settle he will find too much turned to cash</p>
<p>on him when he could have Payed it with</p>
<p>traid this is my notion of things Time alone</p>
<p>will open ower Eyes Sisters will never forgive</p>
<p>me for Spending So mutch money on that</p>
<p>land and now they are thare with all of</p>
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<table>
<tr>
<th>Left Page</th>
<th>Right Page</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p>fault With you in your conduct During that</p>
<p>time now is your time to Show them as you</p>
<p>are in their shoes you are left alone one year I hope no
longer as they ware</p>
<p>and if you show them it is not your nature to</p>
<p>Spend but circumstances that wee ware in compelled</p>
<p>you do do so I will send you all the money I</p>
<p>Draw wee war mustered for Pay on the first of</p>
<p>this month and will get ower money in the</p>
<p>Course of 3 weeks and as soon as I get a</p>
<p>safe oppertunity to send it home I will do so</p>
<p>wee have not received one cent yet for ower</p>
<p>services on the 9th of this month wee will be</p>
<p>in the survie of the Country 4 months and if</p>
<p>wee live 8 months will Soon [Role?] over ower heads</p>
<p>and I will Return home to you and my children</p>
<p>You ma think I am not anxious to come home</p>
<p>believe me this is not the case but to the contrary it</p>
<p>is no pleasant life that of a soldier they are</p>
<p>Generally Respected and well men they be living</p>
<p>in a tent all winter and cooking by a logpile is</p>
<p>not the Sport Sum no think Notwithstanding</p></td>
<td><p>I am as well satisfyed as a man could be under</p>
<p>those circumstances I injoy good health I have</p>
<p>a bad Cold occasionly and the tooth Ache I had</p>
<p>a tooth Drawed a few Dayes ago I was vaxcon</p>
<p>ated New Years Day I have had no Rheumatism</p>
<p>nor any of those Complaints I am subject to</p>
<p>I am not as mutch Exposed in camp as at home</p>
<p>as I take good care of my self here wee do nothing</p>
<p>here now in the way of Drilling they Detail</p>
<p>men to work on the fortifications I have</p>
<p>not worked any on those works yet we are</p>
<p>expecting an attack every Day on newyears morning</p>
<p>thare was brought into camp 4 men Dragoons</p>
<p>in Lincons [Lincoln] Army and one union man</p>
<p>the Dragoons ware from ohio and the union</p>
<p>man from this County wee do not no when</p>
<p>wee will moove from here I think wee will</p>
<p>move on to Mount Sturling [Mt. Sterling, KY] when we do
thare</p>
<p>must be sum fighting Dun thare is 3 thou</p>
<p>send of all Marshalls forses here now and the</p>
<p>Kentuckyans comeing in daley in sqads of</p>
<p>10 and 20 we ware Drawen up in line of battle</p>
<p>on Christmass Morning I did not Brake</p>
<p>my fast until Eavening of that Day</p></td>
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<table><tr><th>Left Page</th>
<th>Right Page</th>
</tr><tr><td><p>fault With you in your conduct During that</p>
<p>time now is your time to Show them as you</p>
<p>are in their shoes you are left alone one year I hope no
longer as they ware</p>
<p>and if you show them it is not your nature to</p>
<p>Spend but circumstances that wee ware in compelled</p>
<p>you do do so I will send you all the money I</p>
<p>Draw wee war mustered for Pay on the first of</p>
<p>this month and will get ower money in the</p>
<p>Course of 3 weeks and as soon as I get a</p>
<p>safe oppertunity to send it home I will do so</p>
<p>wee have not received one cent yet for ower</p>
<p>services on the 9th of this month wee will be</p>
<p>in the survie of the Country 4 months and if</p>
<p>wee live 8 months will Soon [Role?] over ower heads</p>
<p>and I will Return home to you and my children</p>
<p>You ma think I am not anxious to come home</p>
<p>believe me this is not the case but to the contrary it</p>
<p>is no pleasant life that of a soldier they are</p>
<p>Generally Respected and well men they be living</p>
<p>in a tent all winter and cooking by a logpile is</p>
<p>not the Sport Sum no think Notwithstanding</p></td>
<td><p>I am as well satisfyed as a man could be under</p>
<p>those circumstances I injoy good health I have</p>
<p>a bad Cold occasionly and the tooth Ache I had</p>
<p>a tooth Drawed a few Dayes ago I was vaxcon</p>
<p>ated New Years Day I have had no Rheumatism</p>
<p>nor any of those Complaints I am subject to</p>
<p>I am not as mutch Exposed in camp as at home</p>
<p>as I take good care of my self here wee do nothing</p>
<p>here now in the way of Drilling they Detail</p>
<p>men to work on the fortifications I have</p>
<p>not worked any on those works yet we are</p>
<p>expecting an attack every Day on newyears morning</p>
<p>thare was brought into camp 4 men Dragoons</p>
<p>in Lincons [Lincoln] Army and one union man</p>
<p>the Dragoons ware from ohio and the union</p>
<p>man from this County wee do not no when</p>
<p>wee will moove from here I think wee will</p>
<p>move on to Mount Sturling [Mt. Sterling, KY] when we do
thare</p>
<p>must be sum fighting Dun thare is 3 thou</p>
<p>send of all Marshalls forses here now and the</p>
<p>Kentuckyans comeing in daley in sqads of</p>
<p>10 and 20 we ware Drawen up in line of battle</p>
<p>on Christmass Morning I did not Brake</p>
<p>my fast until Eavening of that Day</p></td>
</tr></table>
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<p>I wish you to wright me how</p>
<p>your horses are dooing how John</p>
<p>Jaw has got if it has quit Runing</p>
<p>yet and if they are getting in good</p>
<p>order how your Calves are Dooing</p>
<p>Keep your Calves till me how your</p>
<p>Cows are Dooing and how maney</p>
<p>Pigs you have and Sheep [?] will</p>
<p>be a good prise next Summer</p>
<p>let me no how ower Small grain</p>
<p>looks and Every thing that will</p>
<p>interest me do the Best you</p>
<p>Can with all the land Rent it out</p>
<p>keeping the Best for your own use</p>
<p>Rent at a Standing Rent and have</p>
<p>a fixed time for the Rent to come</p>
<p>Due) my little Baby Boy how I would</p>
<p>like to see him tell me all about him</p>
<p>give my love to them all and tell your</p>
<p>pappy I would consider a letter from</p>
<p>him a Real Treat in must insist on</p>
<p>his wrighting to me give my love</p>
<p>to all inquiring frend and [jubells?]</p>
<p>you are mine as long as life lasts and I am</p>
<p>yours your Affectionate Husband</p>
<p>John N Carnahan</p>
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<p>I wish you to wright me how</p>
<p>your horses are dooing how John</p>
<p>Jaw has got if it has quit Runing</p>
<p>yet and if they are getting in good</p>
<p>order how your Calves are Dooing</p>
<p>Keep your Calves till me how your</p>
<p>Cows are Dooing and how maney</p>
<p>Pigs you have and Sheep [?] will</p>
<p>be a good prise next Summer</p>
<p>let me no how ower Small grain</p>
<p>looks and Every thing that will</p>
<p>interest me do the Best you</p>
<p>Can with all the land Rent it out</p>
<p>keeping the Best for your own use</p>
<p>Rent at a Standing Rent and have</p>
<p>a fixed time for the Rent to come</p>
<p>Due) my little Baby Boy how I would</p>
<p>like to see him tell me all about him</p>
<p>give my love to them all and tell your</p>
<p>pappy I would consider a letter from</p>
<p>him a Real Treat in must insist on</p>
<p>his wrighting to me give my love</p>
<p>to all inquiring frend and [jubells?]</p>
<p>you are mine as long as life lasts and I am</p>
<p>yours your Affectionate Husband</p>
<p>John N Carnahan</p>
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This collection contains 16 letters written by John Newton Carnahan, a private in Company F, 54th Virginia Infantry, during the Civil War. Dated from camps in Southwest Virginia and eastern Kentucky, the letters are addressed to Carnahan's wife, Juliette Sophia Calfee Carnahan, and children at home in Pulaski County, Virginia.
Carnahan's letters focus largely on personal matters, instructing his children in good behavior and offering his wife counsel on the management of their farm and the sale of produce. He relays news of mutual acquaintances, makes frequent mention of his religious faith, and continually writes of a deep homesickness while pleading for more letters from home. Carnahan notes camp conditions and initially claims his health is much improved by army life, citing the weight he has gained while in service. In later letters, however, he increasingly complains of bowel trouble and states that he is suffering from "colery [cholera] morbus," which today would be diagnosed as acute gastroenteritis.
Departing from personal matters in his letter of December 15, 1861, Carnahan describes the aftermath of what was probably the Battle of Ivy Mountain, Kentucky, though his casualty figures do not match those in the historical record. On January 17, 1862, he briefly writes of the Battle of Middle Creek, Kentucky, in which his regiment had participated a week earlier. Carnahan describes the Middle Creek battle again in a letter dated February 3, 1862, when he also provides a lengthy account of the regiment's movements since the previous November.
Following a three-month gap, the collection resumes with a letter dated May 9, 1862. Not in Carnahan's own hand, this letter and another dated May 21 were dictated, perhaps to his cousin Mary Aston, and find the soldier in ill health in Dickensonville, Virginia.
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John Newton Carnahan, 1824-1862
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<a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00485.xml">John Newton Carnahan Letters, 1861-1862</a>
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Letter, John Carnahan to Wife, Paintsville Ky., January 5, 1862 (Ms2009-112)
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Carnahan, John Newton, 1824-1862
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1862-01-05
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Civil War
Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
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<p>Paint Ville Kentuckey December 24 - 1861</p>
<p>Dear Wife</p>
<p>After passing through one of</p>
<p>the Most Excighting Nights wee have had yet</p>
<p>in camp I drop you a line informing you I am in</p>
<p>good health and comfort the Excighting times wee</p>
<p>ware loaded up Partly this morning so wee could</p>
<p>have ower wagons before us in case the Enimy came</p>
<p>up he was Reported to be comeing up on us 4500</p>
<p>Strong this morning he is sed to be but twelve</p>
<p>hundred and Still at Lewisa [Louisa] sum thirty.two</p>
<p>milis below here and as the male leaves heere</p>
<p>Christmass Morning I thought I would Drop you</p>
<p>a line as wee do not no what moment wee ma be</p>
<p>attacked and wee can not till by what forses as</p>
<p>the fo can cum up by watter and it would be</p>
<p>impossible for ower [Videts?] to give us the amount</p>
<p>of forses coming against us we are [<i>page torn</i>]</p>
<p>Rosencrantzes [William Rosecrans] forces are at Whee[<i>page
torn</i>]</p>
<p>and I see in a Cincinatta Paper thare is Several [<i>page torn</i>]</p>
<p>at camp Denison thare is no telling what a Day ma bring</p>
<p>forth and ower male facilitys taken from us. I shall</p>
<p>imbrace every opertunity of wrighting home though</p>
<p>you allowed I would forget to home when I got</p>
<p>of in so mutch company this makes 9 letters I</p>
<p>have written sins I left Wytheville and Received</p>
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<p>Paint Ville Kentuckey December 24 - 1861</p>
<p>Dear Wife</p>
<p>After passing through one of</p>
<p>the Most Excighting Nights wee have had yet</p>
<p>in camp I drop you a line informing you I am in</p>
<p>good health and comfort the Excighting times wee</p>
<p>ware loaded up Partly this morning so wee could</p>
<p>have ower wagons before us in case the Enimy came</p>
<p>up he was Reported to be comeing up on us 4500</p>
<p>Strong this morning he is sed to be but twelve</p>
<p>hundred and Still at Lewisa [Louisa] sum thirty.two</p>
<p>milis below here and as the male leaves heere</p>
<p>Christmass Morning I thought I would Drop you</p>
<p>a line as wee do not no what moment wee ma be</p>
<p>attacked and wee can not till by what forses as</p>
<p>the fo can cum up by watter and it would be</p>
<p>impossible for ower [Videts?] to give us the amount</p>
<p>of forses coming against us we are [<i>page torn</i>]</p>
<p>Rosencrantzes [William Rosecrans] forces are at Whee[<i>page
torn</i>]</p>
<p>and I see in a Cincinatta Paper thare is Several [<i>page torn</i>]</p>
<p>at camp Denison thare is no telling what a Day ma bring</p>
<p>forth and ower male facilitys taken from us. I shall</p>
<p>imbrace every opertunity of wrighting home though</p>
<p>you allowed I would forget to home when I got</p>
<p>of in so mutch company this makes 9 letters I</p>
<p>have written sins I left Wytheville and Received</p>
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<p>but one yet from you and none from any</p>
<p>other person a letter from home is a Real treat and</p>
<p>Particularly Juliette Sophiah Carnahan and</p>
<p>Children if they Actually New the Feelings of</p>
<p>the Brest of the wrighter I am sure they would</p>
<p>Send him a letter once a week tilling him how</p>
<p>his own Baby Boy is dooing whether he is above</p>
<p>crawling and will walk first and What Sweet</p>
<p>Litticia Peery has to Say about her Papy and</p>
<p>how my little Mary Elen R is coming on and</p>
<p>how my Boy John Anderson is dooing if he likes</p>
<p>to lurn his Book and how my little manly</p>
<p>Boy Edwin Ruthven is comeing on if he is</p>
<p>Mothers Stay and Support and what my Eldest</p>
<p>Daughter is dooing if she helps maw all she</p>
<p>Can and is learning to curb her temper so she</p>
<p>will be her Fath[ers] Joy and pride give my love</p>
<p>[<i>page torn</i>]uring frend till me how my Sisters</p>
<p>[<i>page torn</i>] they will never wright to me I shall</p>
<p>[<i>page torn</i>] [truble?] them with a letter you had better Direct</p>
<p>to John N Carnahan Abingdon va care Col</p>
<p>RC Trigg 54 Regment va vols General Marshalls [Humphrey
Marshall]</p>
<p>Bregade letters will come safer to m by that Direction</p>
<p>as wee ma Retreet or go in Different Directions</p>
<p>Your Affectionate Husband John N Carnahan</p>
<p>Excus bad wrighting as it is all Dun on my [knee?]</p>
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<p>but one yet from you and none from any</p>
<p>other person a letter from home is a Real treat and</p>
<p>Particularly Juliette Sophiah Carnahan and</p>
<p>Children if they Actually New the Feelings of</p>
<p>the Brest of the wrighter I am sure they would</p>
<p>Send him a letter once a week tilling him how</p>
<p>his own Baby Boy is dooing whether he is above</p>
<p>crawling and will walk first and What Sweet</p>
<p>Litticia Peery has to Say about her Papy and</p>
<p>how my little Mary Elen R is coming on and</p>
<p>how my Boy John Anderson is dooing if he likes</p>
<p>to lurn his Book and how my little manly</p>
<p>Boy Edwin Ruthven is comeing on if he is</p>
<p>Mothers Stay and Support and what my Eldest</p>
<p>Daughter is dooing if she helps maw all she</p>
<p>Can and is learning to curb her temper so she</p>
<p>will be her Fath[ers] Joy and pride give my love</p>
<p>[<i>page torn</i>]uring frend till me how my Sisters</p>
<p>[<i>page torn</i>] they will never wright to me I shall</p>
<p>[<i>page torn</i>] [truble?] them with a letter you had better Direct</p>
<p>to John N Carnahan Abingdon va care Col</p>
<p>RC Trigg 54 Regment va vols General Marshalls [Humphrey
Marshall]</p>
<p>Bregade letters will come safer to m by that Direction</p>
<p>as wee ma Retreet or go in Different Directions</p>
<p>Your Affectionate Husband John N Carnahan</p>
<p>Excus bad wrighting as it is all Dun on my [knee?]</p>
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John Newton Carnahan Letters (Ms2009-112)
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This collection contains 16 letters written by John Newton Carnahan, a private in Company F, 54th Virginia Infantry, during the Civil War. Dated from camps in Southwest Virginia and eastern Kentucky, the letters are addressed to Carnahan's wife, Juliette Sophia Calfee Carnahan, and children at home in Pulaski County, Virginia.
Carnahan's letters focus largely on personal matters, instructing his children in good behavior and offering his wife counsel on the management of their farm and the sale of produce. He relays news of mutual acquaintances, makes frequent mention of his religious faith, and continually writes of a deep homesickness while pleading for more letters from home. Carnahan notes camp conditions and initially claims his health is much improved by army life, citing the weight he has gained while in service. In later letters, however, he increasingly complains of bowel trouble and states that he is suffering from "colery [cholera] morbus," which today would be diagnosed as acute gastroenteritis.
Departing from personal matters in his letter of December 15, 1861, Carnahan describes the aftermath of what was probably the Battle of Ivy Mountain, Kentucky, though his casualty figures do not match those in the historical record. On January 17, 1862, he briefly writes of the Battle of Middle Creek, Kentucky, in which his regiment had participated a week earlier. Carnahan describes the Middle Creek battle again in a letter dated February 3, 1862, when he also provides a lengthy account of the regiment's movements since the previous November.
Following a three-month gap, the collection resumes with a letter dated May 9, 1862. Not in Carnahan's own hand, this letter and another dated May 21 were dictated, perhaps to his cousin Mary Aston, and find the soldier in ill health in Dickensonville, Virginia.
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Ms2009-112
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Civil War
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John Newton Carnahan, 1824-1862
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<a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00485.xml">John Newton Carnahan Letters, 1861-1862</a>
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Letter, John Carnahan to Wife, Paintsville Ky., December 24, 1861 (Ms2009-112)
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Carnahan, John Newton, 1824-1862
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1861-12-24
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Ms2009-112_CarnahanJohnNewton_Letter_1861_1224
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Civil War
Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
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<p>Paintsville December 21st 1861 Kentuckey</p>
<p>Edwin Ruthven and John Anderson Carnahan Dear Suns</p>
<p>I take</p>
<p>this Opertunity of Dropping you a few lines informing</p>
<p>you that I am well at this time and Hope those lines ma</p>
<p>find you all injoying the Same Blessing I have seen a grate deal</p>
<p>of Rough country sins I left home thare is no Cleared lands of</p>
<p>the River as fare as wee have traveled yet the Bottoms on the</p>
<p>Rivir is getting Broad and tolerably good wee are fifty-five miles</p>
<p>now from the Ohio River and by Forced marches we could</p>
<p>Reach the River in 2 days but I do not think wee will go to the</p>
<p>mouth of the River the Northern Anny went up the River as</p>
<p>far as Pikeville and Stole all the good horses in all this</p>
<p>Country they wanted and took all the Beef and hogs and grain</p>
<p>they wanted without Paying anything for it I think wee will</p>
<p>march the Next Time wee march towards mount Stirling [Mt. Sterling] into the</p>
<p>Bleugrass Settlements I will write to you all often if I keep</p>
<p>my health and you must do the same thing I wish you to be</p>
<p>good boys and obay your mother in all things She is your Best</p>
<p>friend in this wourld use all your power to do all that you can to</p>
<p>pleas her and keep her from haveing to mutch to Do what she</p>
<p>tills you to Do Do it as well as if She was with you and by doing</p>
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<p>Paintsville December 21st 1861 Kentuckey</p>
<p>Edwin Ruthven and John Anderson Carnahan Dear Suns</p>
<p>I take</p>
<p>this Opertunity of Dropping you a few lines informing</p>
<p>you that I am well at this time and Hope those lines ma</p>
<p>find you all injoying the Same Blessing I have seen a grate
deal</p>
<p>of Rough country sins I left home thare is no Cleared lands
of</p>
<p>the River as fare as wee have traveled yet the Bottoms on
the</p>
<p>Rivir is getting Broad and tolerably good wee are fifty-five
miles</p>
<p>now from the Ohio River and by Forced marches we could</p>
<p>Reach the River in 2 days but I do not think wee will go to
the</p>
<p>mouth of the River the Northern Anny went up the River as</p>
<p>far as Pikeville and Stole all the good horses in all this</p>
<p>Country they wanted and took all the Beef and hogs and grain</p>
<p>they wanted without Paying anything for it I think wee will</p>
<p>march the Next Time wee march towards mount Stirling [Mt.
Sterling] into the</p>
<p>Bleugrass Settlements I will write to you all often if I
keep</p>
<p>my health and you must do the same thing I wish you to be</p>
<p>good boys and obay your mother in all things She is your Best</p>
<p>friend in this wourld use all your power to do all that you
can to</p>
<p>pleas her and keep her from haveing to mutch to Do what she</p>
<p>tills you to Do Do it as well as if She was with you and by
doing</p>
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<p>doing so you will gain her confidence and save her a many a
hard</p>
<p>walk and at the same time form habits that will do you good
as</p>
<p>long as you live I wish you to mind your Books all the time
you</p>
<p>can get and Se how mutch you can learn while I am gon and if</p>
<p>I never Return it will be so mutch learnt not to learn agane</p>
<p>(Learn to Read the Holy bible make it the Chief Study of
your</p>
<p>lives it is good for time and Eternity). till your sisters
Marge[ry]</p>
<p>Ann Mary E and Litticia P I will write to them in</p>
<p>my Nex letter. treat your Sisters kindly and your Sisters</p>
<p>will love you so mutch the Better kind treatment is the
thing</p>
<p>to make Frends be kind to your Aunt Rebecky and your</p>
<p>Grand Pappy while they are with you in the course of Nature</p>
<p>they will not be with you long and it will be a sorse of
satisfaction</p>
<p>when they have left the shores of time that you dun so be
kind</p>
<p>to all your Relations and in fact to Every Boddy kind
treatment</p>
<p>costs nothing but makes mutch in ones favour so no more</p>
<p>at Present but Remain your affectionate Father.</p>
<p>John N Carnahan</p>
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<p>doing so you will gain her confidence and save her a many a
hard</p>
<p>walk and at the same time form habits that will do you good
as</p>
<p>long as you live I wish you to mind your Books all the time
you</p>
<p>can get and Se how mutch you can learn while I am gon and if</p>
<p>I never Return it will be so mutch learnt not to learn agane</p>
<p>(Learn to Read the Holy bible make it the Chief Study of
your</p>
<p>lives it is good for time and Eternity). till your sisters
Marge[ry]</p>
<p>Ann Mary E and Litticia P I will write to them in</p>
<p>my Nex letter. treat your Sisters kindly and your Sisters</p>
<p>will love you so mutch the Better kind treatment is the
thing</p>
<p>to make Frends be kind to your Aunt Rebecky and your</p>
<p>Grand Pappy while they are with you in the course of Nature</p>
<p>they will not be with you long and it will be a sorse of
satisfaction</p>
<p>when they have left the shores of time that you dun so be
kind</p>
<p>to all your Relations and in fact to Every Boddy kind
treatment</p>
<p>costs nothing but makes mutch in ones favour so no more</p>
<p>at Present but Remain your affectionate Father.</p>
<p>John N Carnahan</p>
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This collection contains 16 letters written by John Newton Carnahan, a private in Company F, 54th Virginia Infantry, during the Civil War. Dated from camps in Southwest Virginia and eastern Kentucky, the letters are addressed to Carnahan's wife, Juliette Sophia Calfee Carnahan, and children at home in Pulaski County, Virginia.
Carnahan's letters focus largely on personal matters, instructing his children in good behavior and offering his wife counsel on the management of their farm and the sale of produce. He relays news of mutual acquaintances, makes frequent mention of his religious faith, and continually writes of a deep homesickness while pleading for more letters from home. Carnahan notes camp conditions and initially claims his health is much improved by army life, citing the weight he has gained while in service. In later letters, however, he increasingly complains of bowel trouble and states that he is suffering from "colery [cholera] morbus," which today would be diagnosed as acute gastroenteritis.
Departing from personal matters in his letter of December 15, 1861, Carnahan describes the aftermath of what was probably the Battle of Ivy Mountain, Kentucky, though his casualty figures do not match those in the historical record. On January 17, 1862, he briefly writes of the Battle of Middle Creek, Kentucky, in which his regiment had participated a week earlier. Carnahan describes the Middle Creek battle again in a letter dated February 3, 1862, when he also provides a lengthy account of the regiment's movements since the previous November.
Following a three-month gap, the collection resumes with a letter dated May 9, 1862. Not in Carnahan's own hand, this letter and another dated May 21 were dictated, perhaps to his cousin Mary Aston, and find the soldier in ill health in Dickensonville, Virginia.
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<p>Floyd County Kentucky December 15th 1861</p>
<p>One mile below Prestonsburg</p>
<p>Dear Wife</p>
<p>I agane take my pen in hand to inform you all that</p>
<p>through the goodness of God I am well and all my Company</p>
<p>are in tolerable health James Quesenberry has ben unwell for</p>
<p>the last few Dayes is sum better now he has not ben confined</p>
<p>we are agane in camped at the Camp Ground of the</p>
<p>Enemy a few weeks ago but he keeps retreating before</p>
<p>us how long this state of things will Exist I am unable to</p>
<p>tell I understand they are concentraiting their forces at</p>
<p>Lewisburg Kentucky and in 2 other places wee are</p>
<p>under General Zollincoffer [Felix Zollicoffer] Command he is
sed to be</p>
<p>a good General and a cautious commander I have seen</p>
<p>nothing in Kentucky yet that I want they are undoubt</p>
<p>ly the Dirtyes women Down Sandy I ever saw John
Hollandsworth</p>
<p>family would be a fare average Prestonsburg is a filthy Plase</p>
<p>not larger than Newburn theYankey has distroyed Every</p>
<p>thing about heer but thare has ben no improvement in this</p>
<p>Country this last 15 years thare is a beautiful bottom</p>
<p>here where we are in camp it a mile and a half long</p>
<p>half mile Broad perfectly level wee past the Battleground</p>
<p>the other day where Capton may so gallently fought the</p>
<p>Enimy having but 240 men and from the best information</p>
<p>I can get Killed sum [3?] hundred of the Enimy thare is but
a few</p>
<p>burried heer they war sunk in the River sum of the boyes took</p>
<p>of the Dirt of sum of them and saw the face of one they</p>
<p>war not covered more than a foot and a half Deep</p>
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<p>Floyd County Kentucky December 15th 1861</p>
<p>One mile below Prestonsburg</p>
<p>Dear Wife</p>
<p>I agane take my pen in hand to inform you all that</p>
<p>through the goodness of God I am well and all my Company</p>
<p>are in tolerable health James Quesenberry has ben unwell for</p>
<p>the last few Dayes is sum better now he has not ben confined</p>
<p>we are agane in camped at the Camp Ground of the</p>
<p>Enemy a few weeks ago but he keeps retreating before</p>
<p>us how long this state of things will Exist I am unable to</p>
<p>tell I understand they are concentraiting their forces at</p>
<p>Lewisburg Kentucky and in 2 other places wee are</p>
<p>under General Zollincoffer [Felix Zollicoffer] Command he is
sed to be</p>
<p>a good General and a cautious commander I have seen</p>
<p>nothing in Kentucky yet that I want they are undoubt</p>
<p>ly the Dirtyes women Down Sandy I ever saw John
Hollandsworth</p>
<p>family would be a fare average Prestonsburg is a filthy Plase</p>
<p>not larger than Newburn theYankey has distroyed Every</p>
<p>thing about heer but thare has ben no improvement in this</p>
<p>Country this last 15 years thare is a beautiful bottom</p>
<p>here where we are in camp it a mile and a half long</p>
<p>half mile Broad perfectly level wee past the Battleground</p>
<p>the other day where Capton may so gallently fought the</p>
<p>Enimy having but 240 men and from the best information</p>
<p>I can get Killed sum [3?] hundred of the Enimy thare is but
a few</p>
<p>burried heer they war sunk in the River sum of the boyes took</p>
<p>of the Dirt of sum of them and saw the face of one they</p>
<p>war not covered more than a foot and a half Deep</p>
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<tr>
<th>Left Page</th>
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</tr>
<tr>
<td><p>[may?] with a forse of 600 men could have distroyed the Enimys</p>
<p>intire command which was sed to be 4 thousand strong</p>
<p>the must have lost a grate many men in their march up</p>
<p>and Down Sandy River it is a deep [?] stream and</p>
<p>was verry flush at the time they ware heer it is sed</p>
<p>when they Retreted Down the River they went on</p>
<p>Rafts and sum of them Bursted and Drounded a grate</p>
<p>many wee war Detained 1 Day by heigh water and</p>
<p>now has to cross the River on Rafts but Colonel</p>
<p>Trigg is very cautious of his men he stayes all the</p>
<p>tim withe his men untill they are all over wee</p>
<p>will be joined by 4 or five Regments her thare is</p>
<p>sum twelve hundred men heer when we come but</p>
<p>they are incamped sum mile from us Trigg dus</p>
<p>not wish his Regment close to any other Dirty</p>
<p>Regment wee have the name of being the Nisest Regment</p>
<p>that hav hen seen yet wee pass through</p>
<p>the County without molesting anything</p>
<p>thare is one Remarkable circumstance I must Relate</p>
<p>about the above Battle while the fight was going on</p>
<p>ower men sang Dixy and the Enimy wares cursing</p>
<p>ower men wee lost six men we have had Remarkably</p>
<p>good luck comeing Down Sandy we have had sum hard</p>
<p>times to put on half rations of Bred no salt for ower</p>
<p>Beef no sugar for ower Coffee and musty meal wheat</p>
<p>ground without [Bottling?] the assistant Commisary</p>
<p>sed the other day he would Rather be a private at</p>
<p>manassas than an officer in this Regmen</p></td>
<td><p>this will be sent to Saltville by a wagonor</p>
<p>think thare will be some post arrangement shortly</p>
<p>I received your verry kind letter this morning</p>
<p>Dated Nov 27 if you New the Joy It gave you</p>
<p>would wright often this is my 7th letter to you</p>
<p>all sins I saw you and I will continue to wright</p>
<p>you when I have time and opertunity to do so</p>
<p>and send them you I am told to send letters</p>
<p>without Paying the postage as they go safer</p>
<p>Ower friend have to pay postage whin they write</p>
<p>to us wee are now furnished with tenn Rounds of Powder</p>
<p>and Ball with instructions not to shoot without</p>
<p>orders I will now tell you where to Direct</p>
<p>yours letters in the future untill otherwise ordered</p>
<p>Direct to Abingdon Va thus</p>
<p>John N. Carnahan</p>
<p>Abingdon Va</p>
<p>John N. Carnahan</p>
<p>Abingdon Va</p>
<p>Private Co F 54 Reg Va Vol</p>
<p>Care Col R C Trigg</p>
<p>I am told thare will</p>
<p>be a line of coaches</p>
<p>put on this Road now</p>
<p>shortly which will giv</p>
<p>us a chanc to communicate with ower friends at home</p>
<p>if l survive I will Return home when my time is out</p>
<p>and so will most of the company home is the sweetest place</p>
<p>on Earth and those Clustered Round your fireside is all</p>
<p>that is near or Dear to me thar will soon be one third of</p>
<p>my time out I could be no injoyment for me at home now</p>
<p>in the Present State of things but when I serve my</p>
<p>time out I will have Dun my part then let others Do</p>
<p>theirs and I will stay at home</p>
</td>
</tr>
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<td>
<p>[may?] with a forse of 600 men could have distroyed the Enimys</p>
<p>intire command which was sed to be 4 thousand strong</p>
<p>the must have lost a grate many men in their march up</p>
<p>and Down Sandy River it is a deep [?] stream and</p>
<p>was verry flush at the time they ware heer it is sed</p>
<p>when they Retreted Down the River they went on</p>
<p>Rafts and sum of them Bursted and Drounded a grate</p>
<p>many wee war Detained 1 Day by heigh water and</p>
<p>now has to cross the River on Rafts but Colonel</p>
<p>Trigg is very cautious of his men he stayes all the</p>
<p>tim withe his men untill they are all over wee</p>
<p>will be joined by 4 or five Regments her thare is</p>
<p>sum twelve hundred men heer when we come but</p>
<p>they are incamped sum mile from us Trigg dus</p>
<p>not wish his Regment close to any other Dirty</p>
<p>Regment wee have the name of being the <span>Nisest </span>Regment</p>
<p>that hav hen seen yet wee pass through</p>
<p>the County without molesting anything</p>
<p>thare is one Remarkable circumstance I must Relate</p>
<p>about the above Battle while the fight was going on</p>
<p>ower men sang Dixy and the Enimy wares cursing</p>
<p>ower men wee lost six men we have had Remarkably</p>
<p>good luck comeing Down Sandy we have had sum hard</p>
<p>times to put on half rations of Bred no salt for ower</p>
<p>Beef no sugar for ower Coffee and musty meal wheat</p>
<p>ground without [Bottling?] the assistant Commisary</p>
<p>sed the other day he would Rather be a private at</p>
<p>manassas than an officer in this Regmen</p>
</td>
<td>
<p>this will be sent to Saltville by a wagonor</p>
<p>think thare will be some post arrangement shortly</p>
<p>I received your verry kind letter this morning</p>
<p>Dated Nov 27 if you New the Joy It gave you</p>
<p>would wright often this is my 7th letter to you</p>
<p>all sins I saw you and I will continue to wright</p>
<p>you when I have time and opertunity to do so</p>
<p>and send them you I am told to send letters</p>
<p>without Paying the postage as they go safer</p>
<p>Ower friend have to pay postage whin they write</p>
<p>to us wee are now furnished with tenn Rounds of Powder</p>
<p>and Ball with instructions not to shoot without</p>
<p>orders I will now tell you where to Direct</p>
<p>yours letters in the future untill otherwise ordered</p>
<p>Direct to Abingdon Va thus</p>
<p>John N. Carnahan</p>
<p>Abingdon Va</p>
<p>John N. Carnahan</p>
<p>Abingdon Va</p>
<p>Private Co F 54 Reg Va Vol</p>
<p>Care Col R C Trigg</p>
<p>I am told thare will</p>
<p>be a line of coaches</p>
<p>put on this Road now</p>
<p>shortly which will giv</p>
<p>us a chanc to communicate with ower friends at home</p>
<p>if l survive I will Return home when my time is out</p>
<p>and so will most of the company home is the sweetest place</p>
<p>on Earth and those Clustered Round your fireside is all</p>
<p>that is near or Dear to me thar will soon be one third of</p>
<p>my time out I could be no injoyment for me at home now</p>
<p>in the Present State of things but when I serve my</p>
<p>time out I will have Dun my part then let others Do</p>
<p>theirs and I will stay at home</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
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<p>You must State in your letters what Date</p>
<p>my letters ware you received when you wright it</p>
<p>wile Inable me to no how many of my letters you reciv</p>
<p>and their Dates I will keep the dates in future</p>
<p>give my Best Respects to Pappy and all inquiring friends</p>
<p>I will want you to send me 2 pare of pants in the spring</p>
<p>and one uniform coat a soldiers life is hard on cloaths I</p>
<p>left 1 pare of Pants and my [Fetigue?] shirt with sum</p>
<p>Cloaths that the officers left in bland County and</p>
<p>they have not come up yet and it is verry uncir</p>
<p>tain when wee will get them General [Humphrey] Marshall</p>
<p>will have a force of 8 or tenn thousand Shortly</p>
<p>I do not no where or when wee will go into winter</p>
<p>quarters or whether wee will go in or not this</p>
<p>winter as to what I payed Covington the</p>
<p>amount is about 15 Dollars it is [?] one of the</p>
<p>Book the money and leather I am surtain you</p>
<p>can find unless it is [torn?] out the grain</p>
<p>he was about 14 Bushels</p>
<p>wright soon and often it is no small</p>
<p>satisfaction for me to Recive a letter from</p>
<p>home God Bless you all is my Daily</p>
<p>Prayer your Affectionate Husband.</p>
<p>John N Carnahan</p>
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<p>You must State in your letters what Date</p>
<p>my letters ware you received when you wright it</p>
<p>wile Inable me to no how many of my letters you reciv</p>
<p>and their Dates I will keep the dates in future</p>
<p>give my Best Respects to Pappy and all inquiring friends</p>
<p>I will want you to send me 2 pare of pants in the spring</p>
<p>and one uniform coat a soldiers life is hard on cloaths I</p>
<p>left 1 pare of Pants and my [Fetigue?] shirt with sum</p>
<p>Cloaths that the officers left in bland County and</p>
<p>they have not come up yet and it is verry uncir</p>
<p>tain when wee will get them General [Humphrey] Marshall</p>
<p>will have a force of 8 or tenn thousand Shortly</p>
<p>I do not no where or when wee will go into winter</p>
<p>quarters or whether wee will go in or not this</p>
<p>winter as to what I payed Covington the</p>
<p>amount is about 15 Dollars it is [?] one of the</p>
<p>Book the money and leather I am surtain you</p>
<p>can find unless it is [torn?] out the grain</p>
<p>he was about 14 Bushels</p>
<p>wright soon and often it is no small</p>
<p>satisfaction for me to Recive a letter from</p>
<p>home God Bless you all is my Daily</p>
<p>Prayer your Affectionate Husband.</p>
<p>John N Carnahan</p>
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This collection contains 16 letters written by John Newton Carnahan, a private in Company F, 54th Virginia Infantry, during the Civil War. Dated from camps in Southwest Virginia and eastern Kentucky, the letters are addressed to Carnahan's wife, Juliette Sophia Calfee Carnahan, and children at home in Pulaski County, Virginia.
Carnahan's letters focus largely on personal matters, instructing his children in good behavior and offering his wife counsel on the management of their farm and the sale of produce. He relays news of mutual acquaintances, makes frequent mention of his religious faith, and continually writes of a deep homesickness while pleading for more letters from home. Carnahan notes camp conditions and initially claims his health is much improved by army life, citing the weight he has gained while in service. In later letters, however, he increasingly complains of bowel trouble and states that he is suffering from "colery [cholera] morbus," which today would be diagnosed as acute gastroenteritis.
Departing from personal matters in his letter of December 15, 1861, Carnahan describes the aftermath of what was probably the Battle of Ivy Mountain, Kentucky, though his casualty figures do not match those in the historical record. On January 17, 1862, he briefly writes of the Battle of Middle Creek, Kentucky, in which his regiment had participated a week earlier. Carnahan describes the Middle Creek battle again in a letter dated February 3, 1862, when he also provides a lengthy account of the regiment's movements since the previous November.
Following a three-month gap, the collection resumes with a letter dated May 9, 1862. Not in Carnahan's own hand, this letter and another dated May 21 were dictated, perhaps to his cousin Mary Aston, and find the soldier in ill health in Dickensonville, Virginia.
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United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
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<p>Camp Near cedar Bluff 20 miles Below Tazewell</p>
<p>Court House Nov 1861</p>
<p>Dear wife and Children</p>
<p>This is Sabeth morning</p>
<p>agan the good Lord has spared my life and health</p>
<p>for which I feal thankful and hope you are</p>
<p>all injoying the same Blesings for which I no you all</p>
<p>ought to be thankful I<i> </i>have injoyed better health</p>
<p>for the last 3 months than I have for the last five</p>
<p>years you are all seted round a cheearful fire</p>
<p>to Day in the old homested all with your selves</p>
<p>washed and your Clean Cloaths on babe in mothers</p>
<p>lap a Cooing and Crowing passing from one lap</p>
<p>to another nothing wanting to make your lnjoyment</p>
<p>Compleat but my presence and I hope you will all</p>
<p>Pray that I may join you all agane in this wourld and</p>
<p>spend the Remainder of ower Time in this wourld Cheerfully</p>
<p>labouring for eachothers good in time and Eternity I wish</p>
<p>I could get a letter from you once a weeak tilling me how</p>
<p>you all are and how everything is doing with you all I wish</p>
<p>to no how ower horses are dooing and the Cows and Calves</p>
<p>and the sows and pigs and the sheep how the small grain</p>
<p>and if Mr Breeding is dooing if he wourks well yet</p>
<p>and if Sutfin wants to [?] yet I wish to improve</p>
<p>that old Plantation if I Ever get home agane and</p>
<p>Peace is made so I can Rest at home I am not anxious</p>
<p>to be at home in the Present State of things for I</p>
<p>could not injoy one moments peace of mind and</p>
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<p>Camp Near cedar Bluff 20 miles Below Tazewell</p>
<p>Court House Nov 1861</p>
<p>Dear wife and Children</p>
<p>This is Sabeth morning</p>
<p>agan the good Lord has spared my life and health</p>
<p>for which I feal thankful and hope you are</p>
<p>all injoying the same Blesings for which I no you all</p>
<p>ought to be thankful I<i> </i>have injoyed better health</p>
<p>for the last 3 months than I have for the last five</p>
<p>years you are all seted round a cheearful fire</p>
<p>to Day in the old homested all with your selves</p>
<p>washed and your Clean Cloaths on babe in mothers</p>
<p>lap a Cooing and Crowing passing from one lap</p>
<p>to another nothing wanting to make your lnjoyment</p>
<p>Compleat but my presence and I hope you will all</p>
<p>Pray that I may join you all agane in this wourld and</p>
<p>spend the Remainder of ower Time in this wourld Cheerfully</p>
<p>labouring for eachothers good in time and Eternity I wish</p>
<p>I could get a letter from you once a weeak tilling me how</p>
<p>you all are and how everything is doing with you all I wish</p>
<p>to no how ower horses are dooing and the Cows and Calves</p>
<p>and the sows and pigs and the sheep how the small grain</p>
<p>and if Mr Breeding is dooing if he wourks well yet</p>
<p>and if Sutfin wants to [?] yet I wish to improve</p>
<p>that old Plantation if I Ever get home agane and</p>
<p>Peace is made so I can Rest at home I am not anxious</p>
<p>to be at home in the Present State of things for I</p>
<p>could not injoy one moments peace of mind and</p>
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<table><tr><th>Left Page</th><th>Right Page</th></tr><tr><td><p>without Peace of mind there is no satisfaction to</p>
<p>be seen in this wourld if Peace was made and I could</p>
<p>not get home I would be one of the most misurable</p>
<p>of beings this you no has been my sentiments for sum</p>
<p>times Let me no what Fugat Clarke is doing now</p>
<p>and if he is wright on the subject of Religion or not</p>
<p>I can see no reason why a man should forget his letter</p>
<p>and in the army moore so than at home but to the</p>
<p>contrary you see so mutch sin it ought to make</p>
<p>a man flee closer to the sinners friends tell Isabella</p>
<p>to wright me once a month I wish to no what that</p>
<p>Miserable coward Russle Tipton is doing if he</p>
<p>is still getting wood on ower land thare is lade</p>
<p>up in store for him if I ever return sum</p>
<p>labour to fix his fenses I am Detirmed to have ower</p>
<p>fenses seperate and apart I Despise the hipocrit</p>
<p>he is wee have a good Regment they are quiet men</p>
<p>Respecting the Rights of all men Sitazien and Soldier</p>
<p>But woe betide the man that acts contrary to what is</p>
<p>wright. I commensed this letter this morning</p>
<p>and agane after attending Prayer meeting I agane</p>
<p>take my Pen cheerfully loved ones to correspond</p>
<p>with you to Day was the first time in my life</p>
<p>that I Ever saw a large congregation of men worship</p>
<p>the living God without Female voices and faces and</p>
<p>presence wee had a good meeting as I Ever attended</p>
<p>I verrily believe the Lord was with us it would</p>
<p>have dun you good to have Seen Sum 200 Soldiers</p></td><td>
<p>wourshiping my Redeemer in all the Devotion of</p>
<p>the Followers of the Blessed Redeemer Ower Capton</p>
<p>God preserve him is a Devoted Follower of my blessed</p>
<p>Redeemer if you could hear his morning and Eavining</p>
<p>Prayer for his Country his Company and their</p>
<p>Familys you would say with me God save his ardent</p>
<p>sole and Body from sickness and the Balls of the</p>
<p>Enimy wee have men in ower Company that looks</p>
<p>beyond this wourld for their Reward Hank</p>
<p>Dowthet is as good a man as ever I have got acqu</p>
<p>ainted with one that loves to talk about heaven</p>
<p>and heavenly things they sung to Day that old</p>
<p>Hymn I Am I a Soldier of the Cross a follower of the</p>
<p>Lamb O if you could heard it Ring in the</p>
<p>house of god as I did your sole would have all</p>
<p>most left the confines of time and gon to sing</p>
<p>with the Redeemer of the lord they sang give</p>
<p>me Jesus you [may?] have all this wourld give me</p>
<p>Jesus just to have seen and heard ower brave</p>
<p>comerads sing this and notice the Profound silence</p>
<p>you could not help Praying for their immortal</p>
<p>Soles O I trust that this trip will be wourth</p>
<p>moore to me than to and my country in hur trials</p>
<p>my hart leap at the sound of wourship I</p>
<p>take greeght Delight in the Rich troothe</p>
<p>of the[Blessed?] Book I can say it is as a spring</p>
<p>to the thirsty travellor or as a cooling Breese</p>
<p>to the fevered Boddy god be blessed for his</p></td></tr></table>
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<table><tr><th>Left Page</th><th>Right Page</th></tr><tr><td><p>without Peace of mind there is no satisfaction to</p>
<p>be seen in this wourld if Peace was made and I could</p>
<p>not get home I would be one of the most misurable</p>
<p>of beings this you no has been my sentiments for sum</p>
<p>times Let me no what Fugat Clarke is doing now</p>
<p>and if he is wright on the subject of Religion or not</p>
<p>I can see no reason why a man should forget his letter</p>
<p>and in the army moore so than at home but to the</p>
<p>contrary you see so mutch sin it ought to make</p>
<p>a man flee closer to the sinners friends tell Isabella</p>
<p>to wright me once a month I wish to no what that</p>
<p>Miserable coward Russle Tipton is doing if he</p>
<p>is still getting wood on ower land thare is lade</p>
<p>up in store for him if I ever return sum</p>
<p>labour to fix his fenses I am Detirmed to have ower</p>
<p>fenses seperate and apart I Despise the hipocrit</p>
<p>he is wee have a good Regment they are quiet men</p>
<p>Respecting the Rights of all men Sitazien and Soldier</p>
<p>But woe betide the man that acts contrary to what is</p>
<p>wright. I commensed this letter this morning</p>
<p>and agane after attending Prayer meeting I agane</p>
<p>take my Pen cheerfully loved ones to correspond</p>
<p>with you to Day was the first time in my life</p>
<p>that I Ever saw a large congregation of men worship</p>
<p>the living God without Female voices and faces and</p>
<p>presence wee had a good meeting as I Ever attended</p>
<p>I verrily believe the Lord was with us it would</p>
<p>have dun you good to have Seen Sum 200 Soldiers</p></td><td>
<p>wourshiping my Redeemer in all the Devotion of</p>
<p>the Followers of the Blessed Redeemer Ower Capton</p>
<p>God preserve him is a Devoted Follower of my blessed</p>
<p>Redeemer if you could hear his morning and Eavining</p>
<p>Prayer for his Country his Company and their</p>
<p>Familys you would say with me God save his ardent</p>
<p>sole and Body from sickness and the Balls of the</p>
<p>Enimy wee have men in ower Company that looks</p>
<p>beyond this wourld for their Reward Hank</p>
<p>Dowthet is as good a man as ever I have got acqu</p>
<p>ainted with one that loves to talk about heaven</p>
<p>and heavenly things they sung to Day that old</p>
<p>Hymn I Am I a Soldier of the Cross a follower of the</p>
<p>Lamb O if you could heard it Ring in the</p>
<p>house of god as I did your sole would have all</p>
<p>most left the confines of time and gon to sing</p>
<p>with the Redeemer of the lord they sang give</p>
<p>me Jesus you [may?] have all this wourld give me</p>
<p>Jesus just to have seen and heard ower brave</p>
<p>comerads sing this and notice the Profound silence</p>
<p>you could not help Praying for their immortal</p>
<p>Soles O I trust that this trip will be wourth</p>
<p>moore to me than to and my country in hur trials</p>
<p>my hart leap at the sound of wourship I</p>
<p>take greeght Delight in the Rich troothe</p>
<p>of the[Blessed?] Book I can say it is as a spring</p>
<p>to the thirsty travellor or as a cooling Breese</p>
<p>to the fevered Boddy god be blessed for his</p></td></tr></table>
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<p>holey wourd I trust you all will cling close</p>
<p>to the Redeemer and partake of his goodness</p>
<p>O how can my tung magnify my Redeemer Enough</p>
<p>he that left the Relems of Bliss and came Down</p>
<p>to this ungodly wourld to make a way Possable for sin</p>
<p>ful man to Escap to heaven give my love to</p>
<p>Mrs Eliza Clark and John Clark I trust they</p>
<p>will not forget the Blessed Redeemer</p>
<p>My love to my 2 sisters tell them for me to cling</p>
<p>close to Jesus he is the only friend wee have</p>
<p>in time and Eternity and we can serve him</p>
<p>without hindering any time from ower Daly</p>
<p>avocation</p>
<p>I now leave you in the hands of my Blessed Redeemer</p>
<p>hoping he will preserve you all and myself</p>
<p>to agane meet in the Flesh in good health</p>
<p>this is my Daly Prayer your Affectionate</p>
<p>Husband and Father</p>
<p>John N Carnahan</p>
<p>NB I say my health is better than usual</p>
<p>I mean freeer from pane I have occasionaly</p>
<p>a bad cold and Bowel complaint. You shall</p>
<p>have the trooth at all times and circumstances</p>
<p>I now weigh I90 pounds tell me when you</p>
<p>wright how you are all Kiss my little Boy</p>
<p>my sweet frisky Bright Eyed Boy.</p>
<p>and all of them for their father Sophiah</p>
<p>Your husband</p>
<p>John N Carnahan</p>
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<p>holey wourd I trust you all will cling close</p>
<p>to the Redeemer and partake of his goodness</p>
<p>O how can my tung magnify my Redeemer Enough</p>
<p>he that left the Relems of Bliss and came Down</p>
<p>to this ungodly wourld to make a way Possable for sin</p>
<p>ful man to Escap to heaven give my love to</p>
<p>Mrs Eliza Clark and John Clark I trust they</p>
<p>will not forget the Blessed Redeemer</p>
<p>My love to my 2 sisters tell them for me to cling</p>
<p>close to Jesus he is the only friend wee have</p>
<p>in time and Eternity and we can serve him</p>
<p>without hindering any time from ower Daly</p>
<p>avocation</p>
<p>I now leave you in the hands of my Blessed Redeemer</p>
<p>hoping he will preserve you all and myself</p>
<p>to agane meet in the Flesh in good health</p>
<p>this is my Daly Prayer your Affectionate</p>
<p>Husband and Father</p>
<p>John N Carnahan</p>
<p>NB I say my health is better than usual</p>
<p>I mean freeer from pane I have occasionaly</p>
<p>a bad cold and Bowel complaint. You shall</p>
<p>have the trooth at all times and circumstances</p>
<p>I now weigh I90 pounds tell me when you</p>
<p>wright how you are all Kiss my little Boy</p>
<p>my sweet frisky Bright Eyed Boy.</p>
<p>and all of them for their father Sophiah</p>
<p>Your husband</p>
<p>John N Carnahan</p>
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John Newton Carnahan Letters (Ms2009-112)
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This collection contains 16 letters written by John Newton Carnahan, a private in Company F, 54th Virginia Infantry, during the Civil War. Dated from camps in Southwest Virginia and eastern Kentucky, the letters are addressed to Carnahan's wife, Juliette Sophia Calfee Carnahan, and children at home in Pulaski County, Virginia.
Carnahan's letters focus largely on personal matters, instructing his children in good behavior and offering his wife counsel on the management of their farm and the sale of produce. He relays news of mutual acquaintances, makes frequent mention of his religious faith, and continually writes of a deep homesickness while pleading for more letters from home. Carnahan notes camp conditions and initially claims his health is much improved by army life, citing the weight he has gained while in service. In later letters, however, he increasingly complains of bowel trouble and states that he is suffering from "colery [cholera] morbus," which today would be diagnosed as acute gastroenteritis.
Departing from personal matters in his letter of December 15, 1861, Carnahan describes the aftermath of what was probably the Battle of Ivy Mountain, Kentucky, though his casualty figures do not match those in the historical record. On January 17, 1862, he briefly writes of the Battle of Middle Creek, Kentucky, in which his regiment had participated a week earlier. Carnahan describes the Middle Creek battle again in a letter dated February 3, 1862, when he also provides a lengthy account of the regiment's movements since the previous November.
Following a three-month gap, the collection resumes with a letter dated May 9, 1862. Not in Carnahan's own hand, this letter and another dated May 21 were dictated, perhaps to his cousin Mary Aston, and find the soldier in ill health in Dickensonville, Virginia.
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Ms2009-112
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Civil War
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John Newton Carnahan, 1824-1862
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<a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00485.xml">John Newton Carnahan Letters, 1861-1862</a>
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1861-1862
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Letter, John Carnahan to Wife and Children, Camp Near Cedar Bluff [Tazewell County Va.], November, 1861 (Ms2009-112)
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Carnahan, John Newton, 1824-1862
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1861-11
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Letters
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Civil War
Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
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<p>Tazewell County Virginia Nov15 1861</p>
<p>Dear Wife and Children</p>
<p>I agane wright you that</p>
<p>I am in good health after 4 dayes marching</p>
<p>I Stayed last night at Harold Peerys with</p>
<p>Brother Thomas tonight I am with Johnny</p>
<p>D he came up to camp and found me and took</p>
<p>me Down to his grand fathers Johnny is a</p>
<p>good Boy Brother Thomas will go on with us</p>
<p>Mr Preston a sun in law of Mr Peerys is heer</p>
<p>from Kentuckey a Refugee I am glad I</p>
<p>have formed an acquaintence with him in</p>
<p>case we can rout the Linconights [Lincolnights] we are</p>
<p>within 60 miles of his advans forses we will</p>
<p>take up ower time of march at 6 in the morning</p>
<p>I think we will halt in 2 Day and wate For</p>
<p>Reinforcements I wish you to wright me at</p>
<p>Tazewell Court house the letter will follow</p>
<p>me if Directed property wee marched yestarday </p>
<p>in the Rain to Day in the mud sometimes [?]</p>
<p>mouth Deep we are moveing sloly not moore</p>
<p>than 14 miles per day Colonel Trig is verry</p>
<p>Kind to me now I went to him last</p>
<p>night got of to stay with Thomas tonight</p>
<p>with John D</p>
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<p>Tazewell County Virginia Nov15 1861</p>
<p>Dear Wife and Children</p>
<p>I agane wright you that</p>
<p>I am in good health after 4 dayes marching</p>
<p>I Stayed last night at Harold Peerys with</p>
<p>Brother Thomas tonight I am with Johnny</p>
<p>D he came up to camp and found me and took</p>
<p>me Down to his grand fathers Johnny is a</p>
<p>good Boy Brother Thomas will go on with us</p>
<p>Mr Preston a sun in law of Mr Peerys is heer</p>
<p>from Kentuckey a Refugee I am glad I</p>
<p>have formed an acquaintence with him in</p>
<p>case we can rout the Linconights [Lincolnights] we are</p>
<p>within 60 miles of his advans forses we will</p>
<p>take up ower time of march at 6 in the morning</p>
<p>I think we will halt in 2 Day and wate For</p>
<p>Reinforcements I wish you to wright me at</p>
<p>Tazewell Court house the letter will follow</p>
<p>me if Directed property wee marched yestarday </p>
<p>in the Rain to Day in the mud sometimes [?]</p>
<p>mouth Deep we are moveing sloly not moore</p>
<p>than 14 miles per day Colonel Trig is verry</p>
<p>Kind to me now I went to him last</p>
<p>night got of to stay with Thomas tonight</p>
<p>with John D</p>
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<p>Imbrace my Babe for me tell all the Children</p>
<p>how I love them the time is com that I am torn</p>
<p>from them but I hop that you will all pray</p>
<p>that good Lord that Rules in heaven that</p>
<p>I ma be spared to come Back to live with you</p>
<p>all in pea e and quiet the Remainder of my</p>
<p>Dayes God Bless you all is the prayer</p>
<p>of your affectionate Husband and Father</p>
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<p>Imbrace my Babe for me tell all the Children</p>
<p>how I love them the time is com that I am torn</p>
<p>from them but I hop that you will all pray</p>
<p>that good Lord that Rules in heaven that</p>
<p>I ma be spared to come Back to live with you</p>
<p>all in pea e and quiet the Remainder of my</p>
<p>Dayes God Bless you all is the prayer</p>
<p>of your affectionate Husband and Father</p>
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John Newton Carnahan Letters (Ms2009-112)
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This collection contains 16 letters written by John Newton Carnahan, a private in Company F, 54th Virginia Infantry, during the Civil War. Dated from camps in Southwest Virginia and eastern Kentucky, the letters are addressed to Carnahan's wife, Juliette Sophia Calfee Carnahan, and children at home in Pulaski County, Virginia.
Carnahan's letters focus largely on personal matters, instructing his children in good behavior and offering his wife counsel on the management of their farm and the sale of produce. He relays news of mutual acquaintances, makes frequent mention of his religious faith, and continually writes of a deep homesickness while pleading for more letters from home. Carnahan notes camp conditions and initially claims his health is much improved by army life, citing the weight he has gained while in service. In later letters, however, he increasingly complains of bowel trouble and states that he is suffering from "colery [cholera] morbus," which today would be diagnosed as acute gastroenteritis.
Departing from personal matters in his letter of December 15, 1861, Carnahan describes the aftermath of what was probably the Battle of Ivy Mountain, Kentucky, though his casualty figures do not match those in the historical record. On January 17, 1862, he briefly writes of the Battle of Middle Creek, Kentucky, in which his regiment had participated a week earlier. Carnahan describes the Middle Creek battle again in a letter dated February 3, 1862, when he also provides a lengthy account of the regiment's movements since the previous November.
Following a three-month gap, the collection resumes with a letter dated May 9, 1862. Not in Carnahan's own hand, this letter and another dated May 21 were dictated, perhaps to his cousin Mary Aston, and find the soldier in ill health in Dickensonville, Virginia.
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Ms2009-112
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Civil War
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John Newton Carnahan, 1824-1862
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<a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00485.xml">John Newton Carnahan Letters, 1861-1862</a>
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1861-1862
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Letter, John Carnahan to Wife and Children, Tazewell County Va., November 15, 1861 (Ms2009-112)
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Carnahan, John Newton, 1824-1862
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1861-11-15
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/kad
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Letters
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Ms2009-112_CarnahanJohnNewton_Letter_1861_1115
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Civil War
Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
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<p>Wytheville November the 10th 1861</p>
<p>Dear Wife and Children</p>
<p>of this opertun I avale <s>this</s> myself</p>
<p>of this opertunity of conversing with you for I expect</p>
<p>to start for prestensburg [Prestonsburg KY] tomorrow at twelve
oclock</p>
<p>all Nature is Beautiful to Day the birds are</p>
<p>singing sweeatly but alas Sinful man can not injoy</p>
<p>this wourld as he should the Ambition of man is</p>
<p>his own undoing I verrily believe this is a Just</p>
<p>Cause we are ingaged in and the Ruler of the univers</p>
<p>will ultimately Bless us with succksess tho a many</p>
<p>a brave southerner ma fall be fore that time</p>
<p>we left camp Hall friday morning at 9 oclock</p>
<p>left Christiansburg Depot at 4 oclock went</p>
<p>to the [Sentora?] stayed untill half after five</p>
<p>oclock on the cars got to Dublin at Daylight</p>
<p>thens to Wytheville at 10 I was put on gard</p>
<p>and Stood all Day it rained verry hard heer</p>
<p>all Day but I was most of the time in the Depot</p>
<p>house the train stalled several times as we</p>
<p>came up as I Passed through Pulaski my hart</p>
<p>ached my eyes turned homeward but alass</p>
<p>I could not go the time that I could got</p>
<p>would ben so short it would unly Broken the</p>
<p>[vane?] afreash to have to part with those</p>
<p>I Dearly love</p>
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<p>Wytheville November the 10th 1861</p>
<p>Dear Wife and Children</p>
<p>of this opertun I avale this myself</p>
<p>of this opertunity of conversing with you for I expect</p>
<p>to start for prestensburg [Prestonsburg KY] tomorrow at twelve
oclock</p>
<p>all Nature is Beautiful to Day the birds are</p>
<p>singing sweeatly but alas Sinful man can not injoy</p>
<p>this wourld as he should the Ambition of man is</p>
<p>his own undoing I verrily believe this is a Just</p>
<p>Cause we are ingaged in and the Ruler of the univers</p>
<p>will ultimately Bless us with succksess tho a many</p>
<p>a brave southerner ma fall be fore that time</p>
<p>we left camp Hall friday morning at 9 oclock</p>
<p>left Christiansburg Depot at 4 oclock went</p>
<p>to the [Sentora?] stayed untill half after five</p>
<p>oclock on the cars got to Dublin at Daylight</p>
<p>thens to Wytheville at 10 I was put on gard</p>
<p>and Stood all Day it rained verry hard heer</p>
<p>all Day but I was most of the time in the Depot</p>
<p>house the train stalled several times as we</p>
<p>came up as I Passed through Pulaski my hart</p>
<p>ached my eyes turned homeward but alass</p>
<p>I could not go the time that I could got</p>
<p>would ben so short it would unly Broken the</p>
<p>[vane?] afreash to have to part with those</p>
<p>I Dearly love</p>
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<p>I was verry glad to see my Dear Brother come</p>
<p>to see me he is my bist friend and yours</p>
<p>he Requested me to tel Edwin go to him</p>
<p>some years hens a thing I verry mutch wish also</p>
<p>all the Boys Sophiah let him manage your</p>
<p>affares in case I never return to you he loves</p>
<p>your children and will be a father to them</p>
<p>if their father should fall in the Defense</p>
<p>of their country god temper the wind to the</p>
<p>shorn lambs I verily believe if wee Pray</p>
<p>to god and Restle in Prayer for those wee</p>
<p>love that god will answer pray e I need</p>
<p>not ask my wife and children to Pray for me</p>
<p>Sophiah you now your Duty to your babes</p>
<p>Do it fearless of consiquenses and that god</p>
<p>that hears pray will answer the same</p>
<p>General [Humphrey] Marshall is a verry [big?] man</p>
<p>he will weigh 300 pounds a fine looking</p>
<p>man of about 50 summers I think Colonel</p>
<p>Trig will treat his men well yet</p>
<p>give my love to Aunt Becky and all inquiry</p>
<p>friends and god almighty Bless you all</p>
<p>is the pray e of one that loves you all your</p>
<p>Affectionate Husband and father</p>
<p>when we get to our Journeys end you must</p>
<p>write me</p>
<p>John N Carnahan</p>
<p>I will write soon</p>
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<p>I was verry glad to see my Dear Brother come</p>
<p>to see me he is my bist friend and yours</p>
<p>he Requested me to tel Edwin go to him</p>
<p>some years hens a thing I verry mutch wish also</p>
<p>all the Boys Sophiah let him manage your</p>
<p>affares in case I never return to you he loves</p>
<p>your children and will be a father to them</p>
<p>if their father should fall in the Defense</p>
<p>of their country god temper the wind to the</p>
<p>shorn lambs I verily believe if wee Pray</p>
<p>to god and Restle in Prayer for those wee</p>
<p>love that god will answer pray e I need</p>
<p>not ask my wife and children to Pray for me</p>
<p>Sophiah you now your Duty to your babes</p>
<p>Do it fearless of consiquenses and that god</p>
<p>that hears pray will answer the same</p>
<p>General [Humphrey] Marshall is a verry [big?] man</p>
<p>he will weigh 300 pounds a fine looking</p>
<p>man of about 50 summers I think Colonel</p>
<p>Trig will treat his men well yet</p>
<p>give my love to Aunt Becky and all inquiry</p>
<p>friends and god almighty Bless you all</p>
<p>is the pray e of one that loves you all your</p>
<p>Affectionate Husband and father</p>
<p>when we get to our Journeys end you must</p>
<p>write me</p>
<p>John N Carnahan</p>
<p>I will write soon</p>
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John Newton Carnahan Letters (Ms2009-112)
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This collection contains 16 letters written by John Newton Carnahan, a private in Company F, 54th Virginia Infantry, during the Civil War. Dated from camps in Southwest Virginia and eastern Kentucky, the letters are addressed to Carnahan's wife, Juliette Sophia Calfee Carnahan, and children at home in Pulaski County, Virginia.
Carnahan's letters focus largely on personal matters, instructing his children in good behavior and offering his wife counsel on the management of their farm and the sale of produce. He relays news of mutual acquaintances, makes frequent mention of his religious faith, and continually writes of a deep homesickness while pleading for more letters from home. Carnahan notes camp conditions and initially claims his health is much improved by army life, citing the weight he has gained while in service. In later letters, however, he increasingly complains of bowel trouble and states that he is suffering from "colery [cholera] morbus," which today would be diagnosed as acute gastroenteritis.
Departing from personal matters in his letter of December 15, 1861, Carnahan describes the aftermath of what was probably the Battle of Ivy Mountain, Kentucky, though his casualty figures do not match those in the historical record. On January 17, 1862, he briefly writes of the Battle of Middle Creek, Kentucky, in which his regiment had participated a week earlier. Carnahan describes the Middle Creek battle again in a letter dated February 3, 1862, when he also provides a lengthy account of the regiment's movements since the previous November.
Following a three-month gap, the collection resumes with a letter dated May 9, 1862. Not in Carnahan's own hand, this letter and another dated May 21 were dictated, perhaps to his cousin Mary Aston, and find the soldier in ill health in Dickensonville, Virginia.
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Ms2009-112
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Civil War
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John Newton Carnahan, 1824-1862
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<a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00485.xml">John Newton Carnahan Letters, 1861-1862</a>
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1861-1862
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This collection was donated to Special Collections in 2009.
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Letter, John Carnahan to Wife and Children, Wytheville Va., November 10, 1861 (Ms2009-112)
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Carnahan, John Newton, 1824-1862
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Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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1861-11-10
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Letters
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Ms2009-112_CarnahanJohnNewton_Letter_1861_1110
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Civil War
Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
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<a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00485.xml">John Newton Carnahan Letters, 1861-1862 (Ms2009-112)</a>
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<p>Camp Hall [Montgomery County] Oct 27 the 1861</p>
<p>Dear Wife and Children</p>
<p>I received yours Dated on the 24 and hasten to</p>
<p>answer it having an opertunity of sending it by</p>
<p>hand I was glad to receive your letters [Mae?] and</p>
<p>Edwin must Exert their composing powers and give</p>
<p>me a longer letter Next time you have been wrongly</p>
<p>informed in regard to awer going to Martinsburg</p>
<p>it is not nowen where we will go yet or when</p>
<p>but it is Believed we will go to norfolk we will</p>
<p>leave here as soon as we can get Ready the quarter</p>
<p>master sed yesterday we could not.get of unless </p>
<p>[???] yet you sed nothing about getting</p>
<p>my letter by [?] [?esenberry] but I suppose</p>
<p>you got it. I heard from Wourthy last week</p>
<p>by a [cow driver?] I have had no letters from</p>
<p>[Thamus?] yet I think if you can get</p>
<p>[9?] Dollars per hundred for what pork you</p>
<p>have to spare you had better let it go if</p>
<p>peas is made Bacon will not be worth</p>
<p>more than [9?] cents next Spring. we no not</p>
<p>what is in the future tell Edwin and</p>
<p>[mae?] to write me how the Calves and pigs and</p>
<p>Every thing is doing when they Nex write</p>
<p>and how the small grain looks by doing</p>
<p>so they can confer a favour on one that loves</p>
<p>them better than his life for them I wish</p>
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<p>Camp Hall [Montgomery County] Oct 27 the 1861</p>
<p>Dear Wife and Children</p>
<p>I received yours Dated on the 24 and hasten to</p>
<p>answer it having an opertunity of sending it by</p>
<p>hand I was glad to receive your letters [Mae?] and</p>
<p>Edwin must Exert their composing powers and give</p>
<p>me a longer letter Next time you have been wrongly</p>
<p>informed in regard to awer going to Martinsburg</p>
<p>it is not nowen where we will go yet or when</p>
<p>but it is Believed we will go to norfolk we will</p>
<p>leave here as soon as we can get Ready the quarter</p>
<p>master sed yesterday we could not.get of unless </p>
<p>[???] yet you sed nothing about getting</p>
<p>my letter by [?] [?esenberry] but I suppose</p>
<p>you got it. I heard from Wourthy last week</p>
<p>by a [cow driver?] I have had no letters from</p>
<p>[Thamus?] yet I think if you can get</p>
<p>[9?] Dollars per hundred for what pork you</p>
<p>have to spare you had better let it go if</p>
<p>peas is made Bacon will not be worth</p>
<p>more than [9?] cents next Spring. we no not</p>
<p>what is in the future tell Edwin and</p>
<p>[mae?] to write me how the Calves and pigs and</p>
<p>Every thing is doing when they Nex write</p>
<p>and how the small grain looks by doing</p>
<p>so they can confer a favour on one that loves</p>
<p>them better than his life for them I wish</p>
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<p>to live and hope to return and spend</p>
<p>many happy dayes with you all yet we</p>
<p>will lnjoy Eatch others company better when</p>
<p>I return than ever I am Injoying better health</p>
<p>than I have lnjoyed in the last 2 years. Thare</p>
<p>is upwards of one hundred sick men in this</p>
<p>Regiment principally measles. if it was not for</p>
<p>men leaving without furlows I would stand a better chans</p>
<p>to come home agane before I leav than I Do I will</p>
<p>not come unless I can come as a good Soldier I will</p>
<p>not be put in the gard house for Disabedience</p>
<p>my Country needs my service and it shall have it</p>
<p>Cheerfully given give my best wishes and love</p>
<p>to my Father in law till him to write to me I</p>
<p>think he aproves of my [?] I will be the only one</p>
<p>of his that will step up as a man to Defend the</p>
<p>wrights of there Country. I must Draw to a close</p>
<p>by saying to you all you are in the hands of a</p>
<p>merciful god whoo tempers the wind to</p>
<p>the shorn lambs and will shurely bare them</p>
<p>up that puts their trust in him wright</p>
<p>weekly untill I leave here god bless you</p>
<p>all is my Daly Prayers Your Affectionate</p>
<p>Husband and Father.</p>
<p>John N. Carnahan</p>
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<p>to live and hope to return and spend</p>
<p>many happy dayes with you all yet we</p>
<p>will lnjoy Eatch others company better when</p>
<p>I return than ever I am Injoying better health</p>
<p>than I have lnjoyed in the last 2 years. Thare</p>
<p>is upwards of one hundred sick men in this</p>
<p>Regiment principally measles. if it was not for</p>
<p>men leaving without furlows I would stand a better chans</p>
<p>to come home agane before I leav than I Do I will</p>
<p>not come unless I can come as a good Soldier I will</p>
<p>not be put in the gard house for Disabedience</p>
<p>my Country needs my service and it shall have it</p>
<p>Cheerfully given give my best wishes and love</p>
<p>to my Father in law till him to write to me I</p>
<p>think he aproves of my [?] I will be the only one</p>
<p>of his that will step up as a man to Defend the</p>
<p>wrights of there Country. I must Draw to a close</p>
<p>by saying to you all you are in the hands of a</p>
<p>merciful god whoo tempers the wind to</p>
<p>the shorn lambs and will shurely bare them</p>
<p>up that puts their trust in him wright</p>
<p>weekly untill I leave here god bless you</p>
<p>all is my Daly Prayers Your Affectionate</p>
<p>Husband and Father.</p>
<p>John N. Carnahan</p>
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This collection contains 16 letters written by John Newton Carnahan, a private in Company F, 54th Virginia Infantry, during the Civil War. Dated from camps in Southwest Virginia and eastern Kentucky, the letters are addressed to Carnahan's wife, Juliette Sophia Calfee Carnahan, and children at home in Pulaski County, Virginia.
Carnahan's letters focus largely on personal matters, instructing his children in good behavior and offering his wife counsel on the management of their farm and the sale of produce. He relays news of mutual acquaintances, makes frequent mention of his religious faith, and continually writes of a deep homesickness while pleading for more letters from home. Carnahan notes camp conditions and initially claims his health is much improved by army life, citing the weight he has gained while in service. In later letters, however, he increasingly complains of bowel trouble and states that he is suffering from "colery [cholera] morbus," which today would be diagnosed as acute gastroenteritis.
Departing from personal matters in his letter of December 15, 1861, Carnahan describes the aftermath of what was probably the Battle of Ivy Mountain, Kentucky, though his casualty figures do not match those in the historical record. On January 17, 1862, he briefly writes of the Battle of Middle Creek, Kentucky, in which his regiment had participated a week earlier. Carnahan describes the Middle Creek battle again in a letter dated February 3, 1862, when he also provides a lengthy account of the regiment's movements since the previous November.
Following a three-month gap, the collection resumes with a letter dated May 9, 1862. Not in Carnahan's own hand, this letter and another dated May 21 were dictated, perhaps to his cousin Mary Aston, and find the soldier in ill health in Dickensonville, Virginia.
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Letter, John Carnahan to Wife and Children, Camp Hall [Montgomery County Va.], October 27, 1861 (Ms2009-112)
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Carnahan, John Newton, 1824-1862
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1861-10-27
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Civil War
Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
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<p>Camp Hall [Montgomery County] Oct. 7 the 1861</p>
<p>Dear Wife and Children</p>
<p>I am well at this time and hope that these lines</p>
<p>may find you Injoying the same
Blessings</p>
<p>I received your fiew lines but was sorry to here</p>
<p>of my Darlings illness take good
care of him for</p>
<p>me while I am gon I wish Edwin to
bring</p>
<p>Down 2 pare of Drawers as soon as you</p>
<p>can make them Send him Down the
Mackadam</p>
<p>Road give him 75 cents to pay [tab?] with</p>
<p>Start him sevin in the mourning across at</p>
<p>owens ferry- he nows the way to Newburn</p>
<p>then tel him come Down the Rock
Road</p>
<p>[It?] will
be 18 miles from Newburn to camp] the camp is</p>
<p>[im]mediately on the left hand side
of the road. I wish you to send</p>
<p>my over coat also. Mr. Anthony
Owens informed me</p>
<p>[the?] mourning
I left home that A Newgan wants to rent</p>
<p>and I told him to go over and see
what arrangements</p>
<p>you all could make [Tin?] will do
what will be right</p>
<p>I think. There is 2 of your cousins
from FJoyd in camp</p>
<p>They are Major Howards sons Peter is ones name and</p>
<p>Henery is the others they are nice young men [Jessie Houres?]</p>
<p>is complaining with a sore throat
this mourning</p>
<p>Send Edwin as soon as you can for we will march as soon</p>
<p>as we get all awer arms that will
be in the course of</p>
<p>ten or twelve Days. May God Bless
and Preserve you all</p>
<p>till we meet agane your affectionate
Husband and</p>
<p>father write soon John N Carnahan</p>
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<p>Camp Hall [Montgomery County] Oct. 7 the 1861</p>
<p>Dear Wife and Children</p>
<p>I am well at this time and hope that these lines</p>
<p>may find you Injoying the same
Blessings</p>
<p>I received your fiew lines but was sorry to here</p>
<p>of my Darlings illness take good
care of him for</p>
<p>me while I am gon I wish Edwin to
bring</p>
<p>Down 2 pare of Drawers as soon as you</p>
<p>can make them Send him Down the
Mackadam</p>
<p>Road give him 75 cents to pay [tab?] with</p>
<p>Start him sevin in the mourning across at</p>
<p>owens ferry- he nows the way to Newburn</p>
<p>then tel him come Down the Rock
Road</p>
<p>[It?] will
be 18 miles from Newburn to camp] the camp is</p>
<p>[im]mediately on the left hand side
of the road. I wish you to send</p>
<p>my over coat also. Mr. Anthony
Owens informed me</p>
<p>[the?] mourning
I left home that A Newgan wants to rent</p>
<p>and I told him to go over and see
what arrangements</p>
<p>you all could make [Tin?] will do
what will be right</p>
<p>I think. There is 2 of your cousins
from FJoyd in camp</p>
<p>They are Major Howards sons Peter is ones name and</p>
<p>Henery is the others they are nice young men [Jessie Houres?]</p>
<p>is complaining with a sore throat
this mourning</p>
<p>Send Edwin as soon as you can for we will march as soon</p>
<p>as we get all awer arms that will
be in the course of</p>
<p>ten or twelve Days. May God Bless
and Preserve you all</p>
<p>till we meet agane your affectionate
Husband and</p>
<p>father write soon John N Carnahan</p>
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<p>I will write you often you</p>
<p>must write often when you</p>
<p>get a letter from Wourthy</p>
<p>let me no what she says</p>
<p>to you all</p>
<p>JNC</p>
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<p>I will write you often you</p>
<p>must write often when you</p>
<p>get a letter from Wourthy</p>
<p>let me no what she says</p>
<p>to you all</p>
<p>JNC</p>
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John Newton Carnahan Letters (Ms2009-112)
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This collection contains 16 letters written by John Newton Carnahan, a private in Company F, 54th Virginia Infantry, during the Civil War. Dated from camps in Southwest Virginia and eastern Kentucky, the letters are addressed to Carnahan's wife, Juliette Sophia Calfee Carnahan, and children at home in Pulaski County, Virginia.
Carnahan's letters focus largely on personal matters, instructing his children in good behavior and offering his wife counsel on the management of their farm and the sale of produce. He relays news of mutual acquaintances, makes frequent mention of his religious faith, and continually writes of a deep homesickness while pleading for more letters from home. Carnahan notes camp conditions and initially claims his health is much improved by army life, citing the weight he has gained while in service. In later letters, however, he increasingly complains of bowel trouble and states that he is suffering from "colery [cholera] morbus," which today would be diagnosed as acute gastroenteritis.
Departing from personal matters in his letter of December 15, 1861, Carnahan describes the aftermath of what was probably the Battle of Ivy Mountain, Kentucky, though his casualty figures do not match those in the historical record. On January 17, 1862, he briefly writes of the Battle of Middle Creek, Kentucky, in which his regiment had participated a week earlier. Carnahan describes the Middle Creek battle again in a letter dated February 3, 1862, when he also provides a lengthy account of the regiment's movements since the previous November.
Following a three-month gap, the collection resumes with a letter dated May 9, 1862. Not in Carnahan's own hand, this letter and another dated May 21 were dictated, perhaps to his cousin Mary Aston, and find the soldier in ill health in Dickensonville, Virginia.
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Ms2009-112
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Civil War
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John Newton Carnahan, 1824-1862
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<a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00485.xml">John Newton Carnahan Letters, 1861-1862</a>
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Carnahan, John Newton, 1824-1862
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1861-10-07
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2013-7-1
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Letters
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Ms2009-112_CarnahanJohnNewton_Letter_1861_1007
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Civil War
Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
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<p>Camp Suffolk Virginia May 18, 1863</p>
<p>Dear friends at home,</p>
<p>I think I have written home </p>
<p>since this march, but be that as it may you will </p>
<p>hear of it before receiving this. Our boys started </p>
<p>last Wednesday with three days rations and since </p>
<p>then we have sent out rations twice, so that </p>
<p>they have plenty to last till Thursday. They </p>
<p>have had two or three little skirmishes, but it </p>
<p>was as heavy infantry firing as troops ever get </p>
<p>under, and our boys suffered. Johnnie Keith [John H. Keith, from Lowell, private, Company C, Sixth Massachusetts; died 16 May 1863] </p>
<p>Lucinda’s friend (the one that drew the pictures you </p>
<p>know) has gone, and probably his body will soon </p>
<p>be on its way to Lowell. Two (2) others are dead. </p>
<p>Our whole loss in killed wounded and missing </p>
<p>is 21. I hope the boys will come in without </p>
<p>any more loss, but we cant tell. It seems hard </p>
<p>when it so near time to go home, and when all </p>
<p>their friends expected them, just as much I think my </p>
<p>friends are expecting and longing to see me. </p>
<p>I wish I could have been there when Mr and Mrs </p>
<p>R. & Howard were there I think I could have </p>
<p>had a <u>tall</u> time, and I think I shall as </p>
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1863-05-18
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<p>it is, if I can get any thing to eat, for I have </p>
<p>had but one meal of any thing to eat since </p>
<p>the boys and that I had to pay 50¢ for, for </p>
<p>a piece of steak as big as your four fingers and </p>
<p>as tough to bite, two eggs, two poor potatoes </p>
<p>and a cup of coffee. I dont think I should </p>
<p>suffer if it was near pay day. We are in hopes </p>
<p>now to get home the last of this month but </p>
<p>do not know. I wonder what is going on up </p>
<p>with Hooker? We have had no evening papers </p>
<p>since the regiment went off. You must not </p>
<p>think I shirk these marches for really I </p>
<p>was unable to go being a convalescent to be </p>
<p>sure, but still I wasnt able to go.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I am glad the church folks are going to </p>
<p>wait before having their festival till we </p>
<p>get home for I was afraid we should </p>
<p>miss all the festivals and every thing else </p>
<p>I wonder if they will not have an excursion </p>
<p>to the pond this Summer. I often think </p>
<p>of home along toward evening for I go down </p>
<p>to the P.O. with the mail and it is through </p>
<p>town, and all the way along the little girls </p>
<p>and big girls are at the doors sitting on the </p>
<p>“pizarros”. It seems sort of home like. </p>
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<p>I have just written to Mrs. Allen assuring her </p>
<p>of Tom’s [Thomas O. Allen of Lowell, the regiment’s Adjutant] safety. I have written her twice since </p>
<p>this affair commenced. Have any of you ever </p>
<p>called to see her? I have just heard that a </p>
<p>battery was taken last night by our forces. </p>
<p>I dont credit the report but am waiting </p>
<p>patiently for news from our boys as we expect </p>
<p>somebody in tonight. Yes you did have a </p>
<p>house full that Sunday evening. Seemed like </p>
<p>old times did it not? But I must close </p>
<p>and go to eating my dry ginger cakes, for </p>
<p>it is nearly time to go down with the mail. </p>
<p>Dry cakes and cheese is all I have had to eat since </p>
<p>the boys went off. Give my love to all friends </p>
<p>and write as soon as you receive this if you </p>
<p>wish to me to get it for there’s a possibility of </p>
<p>our starting soon. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>I am with much love </p>
<p>Johnnie </p>
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John C. Watkins Letters, Ms2009-071
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Civil War
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This collection consists of seventeen letters. Sixteen of these were written by John C. Watkins and one is by his wife, Harriet (Hattie) Watkins. Three are fragments. All were written to friends and family back home in Lowell, Massachusetts, first, when Watkins served as a private with the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment in Suffolk, Virginia in 1862 and 1863; then while in Washington, DC, from 1864 to 1866; and, lastly, while serving with the Eighth Cavalry as Acting Assistant Surgeon at Camp Winfield Scott, Nevada. The letter written by Hattie Watkins is from Winnemucca, Nevada, and is dated 17 January 1870, shortly after the couple were married.
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Camp Suffolk Virginia May 18. 1863
Dear friends at home,
I think I have written home since this march, but be that as it may you will hear of it before receiving this. Our boys started last Wednesday with three days rations and since then we have sent out rations twice, so that they have plenty to last till Thursday. They have had two or three little skirmishes, but it was as heavy infantry firing as troops ever get under, and our boys suffered. Johnnie Keith, Lucinda’s friend (the one that drew the pictures you know) has gone, and probably his body will soon be on its way to Lowell. Two (2) others are dead. Our whole loss in killed wounded and missing is 21. I hope the boys will come in without any more loss, but we cant tell. It seems hard when it so near time to go home, and when all their friends expected them, just as much as I think my friends are expecting and longing to see me.
I wish I could have been there when Mr. and Mrs. R. Howard were there I think I could have had a tall time, and I think I shall as it is, if I can get any thing to eat, for I have had but one meal of any thing to eat since the boys and that I had to pay 50¢ for, for a piece of steak as big as your four fingers and as tough to bite, two eggs, two poor potatoes and a cup of coffee. I dont think I should suffer if it was near pay day. We are in hopes now to get home the last of this month but do not know. I wonder what is going on up with Hooker? We have had no evening papers since the regiment went off. You must not think I shirk these marches for really I was unable to go being a convalescent to be sure, but still I wasnt able to go.
I am glad the church folks are going to wait before having their festival till we get home for I was afraid we should miss all the festivals and every thing else I wonder if they will not have an excursion to the pond this summer. I often think of home along toward evening for I go down to the P.O. with the mail and it is through town, and all the way along the little girls and big girls are at the doors sitting on the "pizarros". It seems sort of home like. I have just written to Mrs. Allen assuring her of Tom's safety. I have written her twice since this affair commenced. Have any of you ever called to see her? I have just heard that a battery was taken last night by our forces. I dont credit the report but am waiting patiently for news from our boys as we expect somebody in tonight. Yes you did have a house full that Sunday evening. Seemed like old times did it not? But I must close and go to eating my dry ginger cakes, for it is nearly time to go down with the mail. Dry cakes and cheese is all I have had to eat since the boys went off. Give my love to all friends and write as soon as you receive this if you wish to me to get it for there's a possibility of our starting soon.
I am with much love
Johnnie
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<p>Camp Suffolk Va. May 5th, 63 </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear friends at home, </p>
<p>The siege of Suffolk is raised and </p>
<p>we are once more enjoying peace and quiet, but </p>
<p>I dont know as I feel any different from what </p>
<p>I did day before yesterday. I dont sleep any </p>
<p>sounder than before, but it does seem odd not </p>
<p>to hear cannon booming or muskets cracking </p>
<p>every minute. Yesterday morning our regiment, </p>
<p>with others, was ordered to be ready to start at </p>
<p>a moments notice and in 20 minutes notice came </p>
<p>and we went, but the birds had flown, and we </p>
<p>chased them picking up deserters and prison</p>
<p>ers. Billie and I got ready, but we had orders </p>
<p>to remain and we were nothing both, and it was </p>
<p>fortunate we did remain, for it was a hard march </p>
<p>and no fighting there fore no glory. Probably </p>
<p>Joe Hooker’s [Major General Joseph Hooker; commander, Army of the Potomac, appointed 26 January 1863] attack was what called them back </p>
<p>for they were splendidly fortified, and wanted </p>
<p>to get us out side our lines, and then we should </p>
<p>have caught it. Sunday morning I heard </p>
<p>that the rebs had made an agreement with </p>
<p>our pickets on the So. Quay front (about a mile </p>
<p>from our camp) not to fire. I immediately rushed </p>
<p>out there and had a little converse with Mr </p>
<p>reb and pretty soon we got a boat, and sent </p>
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<p>across two of our men, and they sent back </p>
<p>two of theirs, and so on till we had sent over </p>
<p>and back a dozen. I exchanged buttons and </p>
<p>stamps with them, and had a long talk with </p>
<p>them. They were from the eleventh Mississippi </p>
<p>They thought the “Damned Yankees” were pretty </p>
<p>good fellows after all and said they hoped </p>
<p>the war would soon end, and said they hoped they </p>
<p>never would meet any of our boys in battle. </p>
<p>They did not know then that they were going </p>
<p>away so soon, and agreed to meet us again </p>
<p>at evening, but before evening there was skirmish</p>
<p>ing again and of course mutual distrust, so </p>
<p>we did not have the pleasure &c, and before morning </p>
<p>they had “skedaddled.” After the forces had </p>
<p>gone out yesterday morning, I went out to the </p>
<p>So Quay road and saw a few prisoners and desert </p>
<p>ers come in, and picked up some bullets that </p>
<p>had been fired at our men. Then I came back </p>
<p>after Billie and we went out on our front, </p>
<p>(Sommerton road) saw the officer of the picket </p>
<p>and got permission to go out to the rebs breast </p>
<p>works &c so one of the pickets went with us </p>
<p>and we went two miles beyond our outer pick </p>
<p>ets and went all through their camps and </p>
<p>fortifications. I got a couple of gourds, and </p>
<p>also took a body belt that a prisoner had </p>
<p>He did not like to give it up, but we took them </p>
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<p>off. One of our boys took his cartridge box. I took </p>
<p>his belt, and would have had his gun had not </p>
<p>the soldier in charge come along just as he did. </p>
<p>I shall bring home the belt, and a small gourd </p>
<p>that I found. I went quite a long distance </p>
<p>along their fortifications, and also on their </p>
<p>picket line. I would describe their works but </p>
<p>you would rather hear me tell of them, for </p>
<p>it would be uninteresting on paper, and about </p>
<p>a month longer, I shall see you. I see by the </p>
<p>papers that our time is supposed to be out the </p>
<p>8th day of June but our boys dont “see it in that </p>
<p>illumination” and will make a rumpus if they are </p>
<p>not mustered out the 31st of May. I am indifferent </p>
<p>myself a few days more or less if we dont </p>
<p>get into a fight in the time. I wonder what </p>
<p>will be done between now and a month from </p>
<p>now. Will Joe Hooker succeed or will he be de- </p>
<p>feated and thus bring the main body of their </p>
<p>force down on to Suffolk again, for just as </p>
<p>sure as Hooker is defeated we are a “goner.” </p>
<p>In this last raid we took 2 or 3 hundred prison </p>
<p>ers, and only lost a few men so I think [Sing </p>
<p>sheets] more was a lozing game for the rebs. </p>
<p>We are sending troops from here to day very </p>
<p>fast, and probably one division will go. We dont </p>
<p>know whether they will go to reinforce Foster </p>
<p>or Hooker probably <del>Foster</del> Hooker </p>
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<p>Wednesday May 6, 1863.</p>
<p>So you think I dont write as often as Billy, well </p>
<p>I used to write twice a week and sometimes not </p>
<p>get but one and I gave it up. I guess you dont </p>
<p>write as often as his folks either for he gets two </p>
<p><u>every</u> week and sometimes three. Billy is just ask</p>
<p>ing if it isnt most supper time, for he wants </p>
<p>another job at <u>our</u> <u>pudding</u>. We have a jolly </p>
<p>one. How would you like to taste it. Eleven eggs </p>
<p>in it. So you want to taste some of our cook </p>
<p>ing. Well we shall have to give you an oppor </p>
<p>tunity. Why dont Fannie write? I have not heard </p>
<p>from her for two weeks. Have you received the </p>
<p>allotment yet for my 4 months pay. Just </p>
<p>think of it, only $40. for 4 months well that </p>
<p>is better than losing an arm, but then if I </p>
<p>come again I’ll have my $1200, you know. </p>
<p>Not much danger of my having so good an </p>
<p>opportunity however, for it isnt my luck unless </p>
<p>perhaps it might be a nigger regiment. </p>
<p>But I must close to be in season for </p>
<p>the mail. Nothing particular from Johnny Reb. </p>
<p>Love to all. Write soon. </p>
<p>Here is a reb stamp save for me I gave part of </p>
<p>them away. I am as ever John</p>
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This collection consists of seventeen letters. Sixteen of these were written by John C. Watkins and one is by his wife, Harriet (Hattie) Watkins. Three are fragments. All were written to friends and family back home in Lowell, Massachusetts, first, when Watkins served as a private with the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment in Suffolk, Virginia in 1862 and 1863; then while in Washington, DC, from 1864 to 1866; and, lastly, while serving with the Eighth Cavalry as Acting Assistant Surgeon at Camp Winfield Scott, Nevada. The letter written by Hattie Watkins is from Winnemucca, Nevada, and is dated 17 January 1870, shortly after the couple were married.
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<h2>Transcript</h2>
<br /><p>Camp Suffolk Va. May 5th, 63</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear friends at home, The siege of Suffolk is raised and we are once more enjoying peace and quiet, but I dont know as I feel any different from what I did day before yesterday. I dont sleep any sounder than before, but it does seem odd not to hear cannon booming or muskets cracking every minute. Yesterday morning our regiment, with others, was ordered to be ready to start at a moments notice and in 20 minutes notice came and we went, but the birds had flown, and we chased them picking up deserters and prisoners. Billie and I got ready, but we had orders to remain and we were nothing both, and it was fortunate we did remain, for it was a hard march and no fighting there fore no glory. Probably Joe Hooker's attack was what called them back for they were splendidly fortified, and wanted to get us out side our lines, and there we should have caught it. Sunday morning I heard that the rebs. had made an agreement with our pickets on the So. Quay front (about a mile from our camp) not to fire. I immediately rushed out there and had a little converse with Mr reb. and pretty soon we got a boat, and sent across two of our men, and they sent back two of theirs, and so on till we had sent over and back a dozen. I exchanged buttons and stamps with them, and had a long talk with them. They were from the eleventh Mississippi They thought the "Damned Yankees" were pretty good fellows after all and said they hoped the war would soon end, and said they hoped they never would meet any of our boys in battle. They did not know then that they were going away so soon and agreed to meet us again at evening, but before evening there was skirmishing again and of course mutual distrust, so we did not have the pleasure &c. and before morning they had "skedaddled." After the forces had gone out yesterday morning, I went out to the So Quay road and saw a few prisoners and deserters come in, and picked up some bullets that had been fired at our men. Then I came back after Billie and we went out on our front, (Sommerton road) saw the officer of the picket and got permission to go out to the rebs breast works &c so one of the pickets went with us and we went two miles beyond our outer pickets and went all through their camps and fortifications. I got a couple of gourds, and also took a body belt that a prisoner had He did not like to give it up, but we took them off. One of our boys took his cartridge box. I took his belt and would have had his gun had not the soldier in charge come along just as he did. I shall bring home the belt, and a small gourd that I found. I went quite a long distance along their fortifications, and also on their picket line. I would describe their works but you would rather hear me tell of them, for it would be uninteresting on paper, and about a month longer, I shall see you. I see by the papers that our time is supposed to be out the 8th day of June but our boys dont "see it in that illumination" and will make a rumpus if they are not mustered out the 31st of May. I am indifferent myself a few days more or less if we don't get into a fight in the time. I wonder what will be done between now and a month from now. Will Joe Hooker succeed or will he be defeated and thus bring the main body of their force down on to Suffolk again, for just as sure as Hooker is defeated we are a "goner". In this last raid we took 2 or 3 hundred prisoners, and only lost a few men so I think Suf sheets more was a lozing game for the rebs. We are sending troops from here to day very fast, and probably one division will go. We dont know whether they will go to reinforce Foster or Hooker probably Hooker .</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Wednesday May 6, 1863.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>So you think I dont write as often as Billy, well I used to write twice a week and sometimes not get but one and I gave it up. I guess you dont write as often as his folks either for he gets two every week and sometimes three. Billy is just asking if it isnt most supper time, for he wants another job at our pudding. We have a jolly one. How would you like to taste it. Eleven eggs in it. So you want to taste some of our cooking. Well we shall have to give you an opportunity. Why dont Fannie write? I have not heard from her for two weeks. Have you received the allotment yet for my 4 months pay. Just think of it, only $40, for 4 months well that is better than losing an arm, but then if I come again I'll have my $1200, you know. Not much danger of my having so good an opportunity however, for it isnt my luck unless perhaps it might be a nigger regiment. But I must close to be in season for the mail. Nothing particular from Johhny Reb. Love to all. Write soon.</p>
Here is a reb stamp save for me I gave part of them away. I am as ever John
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<p>[Continued from page 4]</p>
<p> </p>
<p>begin to do it. They’ll find it a Fredericksburg on the other foot if they </p>
<p>dont look out for themselves. Gen. Halleck [General Henry W. Halleck, General-in-Chief of the Union Armies] was here the other </p>
<p>day and Gen Keyes [Major General Erasmus D. Keyes; commander, IV Corps] & Dix [Major General John Adams Dix; commander, Department of Virginia] were here before that. I guess </p>
<p>they suffered a pretty hard fight here but all appear well </p>
<p>pleased with the fortifications. But I have no more </p>
<p>time to write at present. Dont worry about me </p>
<p>for I guess I shall come out of this thing safe </p>
<p>and full as good if not a better man than I came </p>
<p>into it. Give my love to all inquiring friends and </p>
<p>write soon and often. I am as ever, </p>
<p>Affec Johnnie</p>
<p> </p>
<hr>
<p> </p>
<p>Camp Suffolk April 24, 63 </p>
<p>Dear folks at home.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I received Feely’s [John’s sister Ophelia] </p>
<p>letter last evening and should have writ</p>
<p>ten then, but I was not very well, </p>
<p>and have been delaying today, </p>
<p>for we have had a scout out, and </p>
<p>I wanted to write the news when they</p>
<p>returned. Four companies from our </p>
<p>regiment were ordered out the other </p>
<p>day Sunday and then the order was counter</p>
<p>manded and twice since then they </p>
<p>have received orders and they have been </p>
<p>countermanded but to day it was </p>
<p>a “go.” I started with the company </p>
<p>before (our company was one of the four) </p>
<p>but was unable to today. Well the </p>
<p>plan of the affair was this. Quite a </p>
<p>heavy force, six or eight thousand and </p>
<p>cavalry & artillery to match were going </p>
<p>out to try and effect something </p>
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<p>and our four companies and eight </p>
<p>from other regiments with 4 pieces </p>
<p>of artillery went out on another road </p>
<p>to engage the troops to keep them </p>
<p>from reinforcing the others which
<p>otherwise they could easily have done </p>
<p>by a cross road from one position to </p>
<p>the other. We had but one man hurt </p>
<p>from our regiment and he but slightly </p>
<p>(Foote [Charles C. Foote, private, age 34, of Lowell] of our company). I have not yet</p>
<p>heard from the other expedition, except </p>
<p>that it was a success. I heard <del>that</del></p>
<p>of an expedition night before last </p>
<p>however that was successful and was </p>
<p>sailor every inch of it. One of our gun </p>
<p>boats coming up the river heard of </p>
<p>some Reb. Cavalrymen, and a party of </p>
<p>them landed, and taking a howitzer </p>
<p>with a mule team for a caisson, </p>
<p>(i-e) to carry ammunition, started for them </p>
<p>They fired one or two rounds, and </p>
<p>the mule getting frightened ran away </p>
<p>and directly toward the cavalry. The </p>
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<p>sailors thinking they were going to lose </p>
<p>their ammunition legged after it, and </p>
<p>the Rebs thinking it a charge skedaddled. </p>
<p>They captured a number of horses </p>
<p>and killed the Capt. of the Cavalry </p>
<p>The sailors mounted the horses to </p>
<p>ride back, but not being accustomed </p>
<p>to manage such a craft, one of them </p>
<p>ran away, and his rider took the </p>
<p>only method he knew to stop him, </p>
<p>that was drew his pistol and shot </p>
<p>him in the head. I thought the </p>
<p>whole affair sailor like from beginning </p>
<p>to end. Since I commenced writing this </p>
<p>I was called out to hear a rebel </p>
<p>band that was playing over the river </p>
<p>somewhere, perhaps two miles or more </p>
<p>from here. To night it is very quiet </p>
<p>to what it usually is, for every night </p>
<p>so far, the cannons would fire from </p>
<p>some part of the town every few </p>
<p>minutes, and were we not accustom</p>
<p>ed to them we should not get much </p>
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<p>sleep. Night before last I was </p>
<p>a little nervous and having been </p>
<p>abed all day of course was not very </p>
<p>sleepy and I was kept awake nearly </p>
<p>all night. If I got into a drowse </p>
<p>one of the guns from the fort near </p>
<p>our camp would boom and that </p>
<p>was enough to start me. We are a </p>
<p>little suspicious of the rebs for tomor</p>
<p>row morning for to night we cant </p>
<p>see any camp fires and there is no </p>
<p>skirmishing any where on the lines. </p>
<p>This is unusual. Our men have to be </p>
<p>up every morning at 3 o’clock and </p>
<p>remain in a line till day light. </p>
<p>I get clear of that nicely. Dont be </p>
<p>at all afraid Ophelia that they will </p>
<p>cut off our communication, or if they </p>
<p>do that they can whip us for we have </p>
<p>fodder enough to last till the last of </p>
<p>May, for all the troops there are here </p>
<p>and there are only sixty thousand out</p>
<p>side to try and come in and they cant </p>
<p> </p>
<hr>
<p> </p>
<p>[Continued on page 1]</p>
<p> </p>
<p>begin to do it. They’ll find it a Fredericksburg on the other foot if they </p>
<p>dont look out for themselves. Gen. Halleck [General Henry W. Halleck, General-in-Chief of the Union Armies] was here the other </p>
<p>day and Gen Keyes [Major General Erasmus D. Keyes; commander, IV Corps] & Dix [Major General John Adams Dix; commander, Department of Virginia] were here before that. I guess </p>
<p>they suffered a pretty hard fight here but all appear well </p>
<p>pleased with the fortifications. But I have no more </p>
<p>time to write at present. Dont worry about me </p>
<p>for I guess I shall come out of this thing safe </p>
<p>and full as good if not a better man than I came </p>
<p>into it. Give my love to all inquiring friends and </p>
<p>write soon and often. I am as ever, </p>
<p>Affec Johnnie</p>
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<h2>Transcript</h2>
<br /><p>Camp Suffolk April 24. 63 </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear folks at home.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I received Feely's letter last evening and should have written then, but I was not very well, and have been delaying today, for we have had a scout out, and I wanted to write the news when they returned. Four companies from our regiment were ordered out the other day Sunday and then the order was countermanded and twice since then they have received orders and they have been countermanded but to day it was a "go." I started with the company before (our company was one of the four) but was unable to today. Well the plan of the affair was this. Quite a heavy force six or eight thousand and cavalry & artillery to match were going out to try and effect something and our four companies and eight from other regiments with 4 pieces of artillery went out on another road to engage the troops to keep them from reinforcing the others which otherwise they could easily have done by a cross road from one position to the other. We had but one man hurt from our regiment and he but slightly (Foote of our company). I have not yet heard from the other expedition, except that it was a success. I heard of an expedition night before last however that was successful and was sailor every inch of it. One of our gun boats coming up the river heard of some Reb. Cavalrymen, and a party of them landed, and taking a howitzer with a mule team for a caisson (i-e) to carry ammunition. Started for them They fired one or two rounds, and the mule getting frightened ran away and directly toward the cavalry. The sailors thinking they were going to lose their ammunition legged after it, and the Rebs thinking it a charge skedaddled. They captured a number of horses and killed the Capt. of the Cavalry The sailors mounted the horses to ride back, but not being accustomed to manage such a craft, one of them ran away, and his rider took the only method he knew to stop him, that was drew his pistol and shot him in the head. I thought the whole affair sailor like from beginning to end. Since I commenced writing this I was called out to hear a rebel band that was playing over the river somewhere, perhaps two miles or more from here. To night it is very quiet to what it usually is, for every night so far, the cannons would fire from some part of the town every few minutes, and were we not accustomed to them we should not get much sleep. Night before last I was a little nervous and having been abed all day of course was not very sleepy and I was kept awake nearly all night. If I got into a drowse one of the guns from the fort near our camp would boom and that was enough to start me. We are a little suspicious of the rebs for tomorrow morning for to night we cant see any camp fires and there is no skirmishing any where on the lines. This is unusual. Our men have to be up every morning at 3 o'clock and remain in a line till day light. I get clear of that nicely. Dont be at all afraid Ophelia that they will cut off our communication, or if they do that they can whip us for we have fodder enough to last till the last of May for all the troops there are here and there are only sixty thousand out side to try and come in and they cant begin to do it. They'll find it a Fredericksburg on the other foot if they dont look out for themselves. Gen. Halleck was here the other day and Gen Keyes & Dix were here before that. I guess they expected a pretty hard fight here but all appear well pleased with the fortifications. But I have no more time to write at present. Dont worry about me for I guess I shall come out of this thing safe and full as good if not a better man than I came into it. Give my love to all inquiring friends and write soon and often. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>I am as ever, </p>
<p>Affec</p>
<p>Johnnie</p>
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<p>Camp Suffolk Va. April 17 1863<p>
Dear folks at home, </p>
<p>It seems we did not go to Newbern </p>
<p>for here we are and here we are like to stay. I was </p>
<p>not intending to write till this affair was over, but </p>
<p>as there seems to be no prospect of its speedy </p>
<p>termination I thought I would write and set your </p>
<p>minds at rest. This is the first time I have </p>
<p>taken a pen in hand to write for a week and my </p>
<p>hands are as numb and clumsy as can be. </p>
<p>When I wrote before we were under marching orders </p>
<p>to go to Newberne and from there to aid Foster, but </p>
<p>it wasn’t a [went], for our orders were countermanded </p>
<p>for we were needed here. Saturday P.M. about 5 o’clock </p>
<p>or before the “long roll” sounded and our boys were ordered </p>
<p>to the rifle pits. Our pickets had been captured & </p>
<p>driven in on <del>three</del> two roads and a general attack <del>had been</del> was</p>
<p>effected. The next day they appeared on the other two </p>
<p>roads and the pickets on our front came in </p>
<p>right lively. We have had reinforcements coming in </p>
<p>ever since and there’s a pretty good force here now. </p>
<p>The 22d Army Corps that has been defending Washington </p>
<p>has come here or at least a good portion of it. </p>
<p>There is occasional skirmishing on all the fronts, </p>
<p>but nothing very severe, except down river where the </p>
<p>rebs have been trying to cross the river and cut </p>
<p>off our communication with Norfolk. We had 15 </p>
<p>Gun boats on the river beside batteries on the </p>
<p>shores and we just gave em “rats”. We are in </p>
<p>hopes they will attempt to come in on our front </p>
<p>for there is a splendid chance to just mow </p>
<p>them down. The Generals here say that 80,000 </p>
<p>men could not come in on our front. Our regt. </p>
<p>is in a very good position, protected by rifle </p>
<p>pits, and probably there is nothing to fear, from </p>
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<p>the rebs in the position we now occupy. Our </p>
<p>boys bring in a “Gray back now and then. I staid </p>
<p>in the rifle pits, two or three days but am </p>
<p>now in my quarters when I am not roaming </p>
<p>around the fortifications and rifle pits seeing </p>
<p>the fun. You must not be worried about us for </p>
<p>there is no danger, and you must not believe </p>
<p>what the papers say for they dont tell the </p>
<p>truth. So you must not believe me wounded </p>
<p>or dead till I write you to that effect. I dont </p>
<p>know as this letter will get through for I hear </p>
<p>there’s a stop at Fort Monroe &c, but “if you </p>
<p>dont receive this write me”. I like your pic</p>
<p>ture very much and gave Billy the other one. </p>
<p>No that picture of Billy was not yours but </p>
<p>mine. I have not given him your message yet </p>
<p>But I can write no more at present, and </p>
<p>its a wonder how I could this much. </p>
<p>Love to all. Why dont some of the H’s write </p>
<p>Will write more at length next time.</p>
<p>Your affec. </p>
<p>John</p>
<p>Excuse looks &c for my desk has been packed </p>
<p>up and sent off up to the Hospl a week ago </p>
<p>and you know I never could write unless I </p>
<p>was just so.</p>
<p>J. </p>
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<h2>Transcript</h2>
<br /><p>Camp Suffolk Va. April 17. 1863 </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear folks at home.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>It seems we did not go to Newbern for here we are and here we are like to stay. I was not intending to write till this affair was over, but as there seems to be no prospect of its speedy termination I thought I would write and set your minds at rest. This is the first time I have taken a pen in hand to write for a week and my hands are as numb and clumsy as can be. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>When I wrote before we were under marching orders to go to Newberne and from there to aid Foster, but it wasn’t as went, for our orders were countermanded for we were needed here. Saturday P.M. about 5 o’clock or before the “long roll” sounded and our boys were ordered to the rifle pits. Our pickets had been captured & driven in on two roads and a general attack was expected. The next day they appeared on the other two roads and the pickets on our front came in right lively. We have had reinforcements coming in ever since and there’s a pretty good force here now. The 22d Army Corps that has been defending Washington has come here or at least a good portion of it. There is occasional skirmishing on all the fronts, but nothing very severe, except down river where the rebs have been trying to cross the river and cut off our communication with Norfolk. We had 15 Gun boats on the river beside batteries on the shores and we just gave em “vats”. We are in hopes they will attempt to come in on our front for there is a splendid chance to just mow them down. The Generals here say that 80,000 men could not come in on our front. Our regt. is in a very good position, protected by rifle pits, and probably there is nothing to fear, from the rebs in the position we now occupy. Our boys bring in a “Gray back now and then. I staid in the rifle pits two or three days but am now in my quarters when I am not roaming around the fortifications and rifle pits seeing the fun. You must not be worried about us for there is no danger and you must not believe what the papers say for they dont tell the truth. So you must not believe me wounded or dead till I write you to that effect. I dont know as this letter will get through for I hear there’s a stop at Fort Monroe &c. but “if you dont receive this write me”. I like your picture very much and gave Billy the other one. No that picture of Billy was not yours but mine. I have not given him your message yet But I can write no more at present and its a wonder how I could this much. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Love to all. Why dont some of the H’s write</p>
<p>Will write more at length next time. </p>
<p>Your affec. </p>
John
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1863-04-17
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<p>Camp Suffolk Va Apr 9.</p>
<p> </p>
Dear friends at home, </p>
<p>I expected a letter </p>
<p>from home this evening, but none </p>
<p>arrived. So I will write a few </p>
<p>lines. Our things are all packed, </p>
<p>and we are under marching orders </p>
<p>to go at a warning, where, we </p>
<p>dont know. Perhaps we may go </p>
<p>to Charleston perhaps to Newberne </p>
<p>and more likely than all up York </p>
<p>river either to Yorktown or Williamsburg. </p>
<p>We had sort of a premonition of </p>
<p>the thing and last night Col & </p>
<p>Adjutant were called and went down </p>
<p>to Col Fosters h’d Quars. Pretty soon </p>
<p>I was routed out of bed and orders </p>
<p>came saying that the Fatigue & </p>
<p>Picket were relieved till further orders. </p>
<p>Then we were certain. We are now </p>
<p>awaiting the result of a reconnoi</p>
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<p>tering & bridge building partie’s </p>
<p>success, for they were repulsed </p>
<p>yesterday, and if they are again we </p>
<p>may remain. Direct your letters </p>
<p>to Fort Monroe for a little while </p>
<p>till you hear from me again or </p>
<p>till you see from the papers, </p>
<p>where we are stationed. </p>
<p>Gettys [Brig. General George Washington Getty, commander 3rd Division IX Corps] Div. had a review yester</p>
<p>day P.M. and I went over to it </p>
<p>I wish you could have an opportu</p>
<p>nity to see one of those little </p>
<p>things. As far as you see almost </p>
<p>a line of soldiers, and I think </p>
<p>one regiment of cavalry would sort </p>
<p>of make the eyes of the Lowell </p>
<p>people protrude in fear.</p>
<p>I saw Henry Chellis again. He </p>
<p>is looking well. There is nothing </p>
<p>particular going on in Camp </p>
<p>Hen Perkins & Frank Salmon came </p>
<p>to night. It looks queer to see </p>
<p>people in city clothes. </p>
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<p>I send you in this a couple </p>
<p>of pictures. Perhaps I may </p>
<p>send for them again but I dont </p>
<p>want them with me. Yes I do. </p>
<p>I shant send them. </p>
<p>Give my love to all the folks </p>
<p>would write more but I have two </p>
<p>more to write tonight, now late. </p>
<p>Please send me some “Journals” </p>
<p>now and then with “Haverhill’s”</p>
<p>letter.</p>
<p>Good night
<p>Your affec son &c</p>
<p>John</p>
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This collection consists of seventeen letters. Sixteen of these were written by John C. Watkins and one is by his wife, Harriet (Hattie) Watkins. Three are fragments. All were written to friends and family back home in Lowell, Massachusetts, first, when Watkins served as a private with the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment in Suffolk, Virginia in 1862 and 1863; then while in Washington, DC, from 1864 to 1866; and, lastly, while serving with the Eighth Cavalry as Acting Assistant Surgeon at Camp Winfield Scott, Nevada. The letter written by Hattie Watkins is from Winnemucca, Nevada, and is dated 17 January 1870, shortly after the couple were married.
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<br /><p>Camp Suffolk Va Apr 9.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear friends at home,</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I expected a letter from home this evening, but none arrived. So I will write a few lines. Our things are all packed, and we are under marching orders to go at a warning, where, we don't know. Perhaps we may go to Charleston perhaps to Newberne and more likely than all up York river either to Yorktown or Williamsburg. We had sort of a premonition of the thing and last night Col & Adjutant were called and went down to Col Foster's h’d Quars. Pretty soon I was routed out of bed and orders came saying that the Fatigue & Picket were relieved till further orders. Then we were certain. We are now awaiting the result of a reconnoitering & bridge building party’s success, for they were repulsed yesterday, and if they are again we may remain. Direct your letters to Fort Monroe for a little while till you hear from me again or till you see the papers, where we are stationed. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Gettys Div. had a review yesterday P.M. and I went over to it I wish you could have an opportunity to see one of those little things. As far as you see almost a line of soldiers, and I think one regiment of cavalry would sort of make the eyes of the Lowell people protrude in fear. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>I saw Henry Chellis again. He is looking well. There is nothing particular going on in Camp Hen Perkins & Frank Salmon came to night. It looks queer to see people in city clothes. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>I send you in this a couple of pictures. Perhaps I may send for them again but I dont want them with me. Yes I do. I shant send them. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Give my love to all the folks would write more but I have two more to write tonight, now late. Please send me some “Journals” now and then with “Haverhills” letters. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Good night </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Your affec son &c </p>
<p>John</p>
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<p>Camp Suffolk Va. March 9, 1863</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear Friends at home</p>
<p>I have just received your </p>
<p>letter from home (Mr Wheelers enclosed) and I </p>
<p>assure you I was glad enough to hear for </p>
<p>it is quite a time since I have heard from </p>
<p>home. You speak of Fannies writing twice beside </p>
<p>the note in yours. I never have received but one </p>
<p>letter and that I answered a day or two ago. </p>
<p>I am <u>very</u> sorry the letter was lost for if there </p>
<p>is anything I hate to lose its a letter. There are </p>
<p>others that I have lost beside hers. Tell Mr. </p>
<p>Wheeler I am very much obliged to him for his </p>
<p>favor &c and I am going to answer his letter as </p>
<p>soon as I get time. I have not yet received the </p>
<p>paper you sent expect to get it tomorrow. I should </p>
<p>like to see Johnnie Calef [Lt. John Haskell Calef] very much, and if he changes </p>
<p>his position I want you to keep me posted for he may </p>
<p>come down this way, and I may have a chance to see </p>
<p>him. Madam Rumor has a new place for us every </p>
<p>day and sometimes twice a day. Yesterday she </p>
<p>sent us home to enforce the draft, this morning to </p>
<p>S.C. to assist in the taking of Charleston, and tonight<p>
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<p>to Winton N.C. Well, the general opinion is </p>
<p>that the 9th Army Corps is to stay still and the </p>
<p>7th Army Corps (ours) is to take the field </p>
<p>If its so, I suppose it is, but I shant believe </p>
<p>it until I see it. That opinion is credited </p>
<p>however, both at Fort Monroe and Newport News. </p>
<p>One thing is certain something is “up”, for all </p>
<p>the Brigades have Brigade drills quite often and </p>
<p>some changes are being made in the regiments </p>
<p>that have been doing provost duty at Norfolk </p>
<p>and Deep Creek. Well I am ready to move but </p>
<p>I hope there will be no necessity. Yesterday Henry </p>
<p>Cooper and Ezra Adams came here from Lowell. </p>
<p>I tell you it seemed good to see familiar faces &c </p>
<p>from home. Today there was a skirmish about 12 </p>
<p>miles out from this place. Our scouting parties taking </p>
<p>a few prisoners and driving the rebs across the river </p>
<p>Since I wrote you my last letter I have been to </p>
<p>Norfolk Fort Monroe & Newport News. Gus [likely, Augustus D. Ayling, 29th Massachusetts] was </p>
<p>here from Newport News and Lieut. Pinder [Lt. Albert Pinder of Lowell; Co. H, Sixth Massachusetts] and I </p>
<p>got passes through to go back with him. We did </p>
<p>not find him aboard the train but supposed he </p>
<p>had gone ahead. Nothing particular on the route to </p>
<p>N. it being through our edge of the dismal swamp.
<p>I could not help laughing at the N.Y. Herald’s report <p>
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<p>of Corcoran’s [Brig. General Michael Corcoran] reception. It said that “all along </p>
<p>the road from N. to Suffolk the soldiers </p>
<p>rushed to the cars and cheers upon cheers rent </p>
<p>the air &c. Now there is but one Regt. between </p>
<p>here and N. and that is stationed a mile from </p>
<p>the track. You may know hereafter how correct are </p>
<p>newspaper reports. The principle thing on that road </p>
<p>is the dismal swamp canal, the water of which is pre</p>
<p>cisely the color of coffee, colored by the juniper berry.</p>
<p>We got a dinner at Norfolk and I tasted milk </p>
<p>in my coffee for the first time in six months. </p>
<p>We went to Fort Monroe in the P.M. and from </p>
<p>there direct to Newport News. There are any </p>
<p>quantity of vessels here, transports, tugs, steam</p>
<p>ers, oyster boats, gun boats, war vessels and any </p>
<p>quantity of others. There were four British men </p>
<p>of war laying off in Hampton Roads. A set of their </p>
<p>officers (by a set I mean all grades of rank) went over </p>
<p>in the boat with us. They were wanting to see </p>
<p>Norfolk attacked, that was to come off Sunday, but </p>
<p>as communication has not stopped, and there are </p>
<p>no alarms, we do not fear. I could not help thinking </p>
<p>of “Orpheus C. Kerr” [satirical pseudonym used by Robert Henry Newell of the New York <i>Sunday Mercury</i>; a play on “office seeker”] sending to Washington for two </p>
<p>Brigs (Brigadiers) to replace two that had skedaddled </p>
<p>for there were three or more Brigs aboard our <p>
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<p>boat and I don’t know but more. Well, we </p>
<p>arrived at Newport News and found the 29th </p>
<p>after a long walk. We found some that we </p>
<p>knew but no Gus, for he had got left. We then</p>
<p>found the 21st Mass and the 9th N.H then we </p>
<p>went down to the boat, and by dint of per</p>
<p>suasion with the provost guard got aboard and</p>
<p>made arrangements to stay all night. I could </p>
<p>not sleep much on account of the motion of the </p>
<p>water but slept enough and rose early. & looking from </p>
<p>the window I could see, about 10 or 15 rods off </p>
<p>the masts of the Cumberland [USS Cumberland was sunk by CSS Virginia/Merrimack on 8 March 1862] sticking out of the </p>
<p>water and I thought that probably the bodies of </p>
<p>some of her defenders still lay beside the guns </p>
<p>they so bravely manned. A little farther up </p>
<p>James river, not more than 1/4 a mile, lay the “San-</p>
<p>gamon,” one of the Monitor build of vessels. At first </p>
<p>I could only see the turret, but soon the sun </p>
<p>shone upon her and I saw a little white streak </p>
<p>from each side and saw that it was </p>
<p>the boat that the turret rested upon. I</p>
<p>stood and imagined the battle and saw the </p>
<p>Merrimack come down the river and do the </p>
<p>execution she did, and how all hearts sunk </p>
<p>with despair, fearing the next morning’s sun </p>
<p>[. . . end]</p>
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This collection consists of seventeen letters. Sixteen of these were written by John C. Watkins and one is by his wife, Harriet (Hattie) Watkins. Three are fragments. All were written to friends and family back home in Lowell, Massachusetts, first, when Watkins served as a private with the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment in Suffolk, Virginia in 1862 and 1863; then while in Washington, DC, from 1864 to 1866; and, lastly, while serving with the Eighth Cavalry as Acting Assistant Surgeon at Camp Winfield Scott, Nevada. The letter written by Hattie Watkins is from Winnemucca, Nevada, and is dated 17 January 1870, shortly after the couple were married.
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<br /><p>Camp Suffolk Va. March 9, 1863</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear Friends at home</p>
<p> </p>
I have just received your letter from home (Mr Wheeler’s enclosed) and I assure you I was glad enough to hear for it is quite a time since I have heard from home. You speak of Fannie’s writing twice beside the note in yours. I never have received but one letter and that I answered a day or two ago. I am very sorry the letter was lost for if there is anything I hate to lose its a letter. There are others that I have lost beside hers. Tell Mr. Wheeler I am very much obliged to him for his favor &c and I am going to answer his letter as soon as I get time. I have not yet received the paper you sent expect to get it tomorrow. I should like to see Johnnie Calef very much, and if he changes his position I want you to keep me posted for he may come down this way, and I may have a chance to see him. Madam Rumor has a new place for us every day and sometimes twice a day. Yesterday she sent us home to enforce the draft, this morning to S.C. to assist in the taking of Charleston, and tonight to Winton N.C. Well, the general opinion is that the 9th Army Corps is to stay still and the 7th Army Corps (ours) is to take the field If its so, I suppose it is, but I shant believe it until I see it. That opinion is credited however, both at Fort Monroe and Newport News One thing is certain something is “up”, for all the Brigades have Brigade drills quite often and some changes are being made in the regiments that have been doing provost duty at Norfolk and Deep Creek. Well I am ready to move but I hope there will be no necessity. Yesterday Henry Cooper and Ezra Adams came here from Lowell. I tell you it seemed good to see familiar faces &c from home. Today there was a skirmish about 12 miles out from this place. Our scouting parties taking a few prisoners and driving the rebs across the river Since I wrote you my last letter I have been to Norfolk Fort Monroe & Newport News. Gus was here from Newport News and Lieut. Pinder and I got passes through to go back with him. We did not find him aboard the train but supposed he had gone ahead. Nothing particular on the route to N. it being through our edge of the dismal swamp. I could not help laughing at the N.Y. Herald’s report of Corcoran’s reception. It said that “all along the road from N. to Suffolk that the soldiers rushed to the cars and cheers upon cheers rent the air &c. Now there is but one Regt. between here and N. and that is stationed a mile from the track. You may know hereafter how correct are newspaper reports. The principle thing on that road is the dismal swamp canal, the water of which is precisely the color of coffee, colored by the juniper berry. We got a dinner at Norfolk and I tasted milk in my coffee for the first time in six months. We went to Fort Monroe in the P.M. and from there direct to Newport News. There are any quantity of vessels here, transports, tugs, steamers, oyster boats, gun boats, war vessels and any quantity of others. There were four British men of war laying off in Hampton Roads. A set of their officers (by a set I mean all grades of rank) went over in the boat with us. They were waiting to see Norfolk attacked, that was to come off Sunday, but as communication has not stopped, and there are no alarms, we do not fear. I could not help thinking of “Orpheus C. Kerr” sending to Washington for two Brigs (Brigadiers) to replace two that had skedaddled for there were three or more Brigs aboard our boat and I don't know but more. Well, we arrived at Newport News and found the 29th after a long walk. We found some that we knew but no Gus. for he had got left. We then found the 21st Mass. and the 9th N.H then we went down to the boat, and by dint of persuasion with the provost guard got aboard and made arrangements to stay all night. I could not sleep much on account of the motion of the water but slept enough and rose early. & looking from the window I could see, about 10 or 15 rods off the mast of the Cumberland sticking out of the water and I thought that probably the bodies of some of her defenders still lay beside the guns they so bravely manned. A little farther up James river, not more than 1/4 a mile, lay the “Sangamon,” one of the Monitor build of vessels. At first I could only see the turret, but soon the sun shone upon her and I saw a little white streak from each side and saw that it was the boat that the turret rested upon. I stood and imagined the battle and saw the Merrimack come down the river and do the execution she did, and how all hearts sunk with despair, fearing the next morning’s sun
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<p>[Continued from page 4]</p>
<p> </p>
<p>of spirit out of them. Last night there was cannonading somewhere and they asked some of </p>
<p>our boys (on picket) </p>
<p>how far the rebs </p>
<p>were, the reply “about </p>
<p>2 miles.” It made </p>
<p>their eyes hang out </p>
<p>and I tell you </p>
<p>they did their duty </p>
<p>smart after that </p>
<p>There’s one regt. </p>
<p>about all Penna. </p>
<p>Dutchmen and </p>
<p>theres lots of </p>
<p>spirit with them </p>
<p>on picket.</p>
<p> </p>
<hr>
<p> </p>
<p>Head Qurs Sixth Regt. Mass. Vols </p>
<p>Camp Suffolk Va Dec 8th</p>
<p> </p>
<p>My Dear Sisters.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I hardly know how to com</p>
<p>mence my letters half the time, for I know </p>
<p>you both would like to have them addressed to </p>
<p>you individually, and I want to answer your </p>
<p>letters and would like to write to each of you </p>
<p>but I have not the time, so I think well, they </p>
<p>write for the whole, so I’ll address the whole. </p>
<p>I have just received Mary’s letter this evening </p>
<p>and I got one from O.[likely John’s sister, Ophelia] night before last and wrote </p>
<p>home last night. I have just been writing to </p>
<p>Minnie, and it is pretty late but the Adjt is out </p>
<p>and I’ll write till he comes. It is quite cool </p>
<p>here now and I rather think that I should prefer </p>
<p>to stay here this Winter, but there is every chance of our </p>
<p>moving. These trips to the Blackwater are merely </p>
<p>feints to draw their attention and to keep some little</p>
<p>force at Franklin, and is but preparatory to a move</p>
<p>ment that will “astonish the natives,” I dread this </p>
<p>lying out nights, for it will cause so much sickness </p>
<p>The regiment is pretty healthy. There has one disease </p>
<p>go into it that makes me feel badly about it. Diptheria </p>
<p>one has died with it to day. Do not tell people of it in </p>
<p>L. [Lowell, Ma.] for most of the boys dont know it. The surgeon told me </p>
<p>and said there were two or three that had it in its mild </p>
<p>stages. You spoke of the skirmish, saying our loss was </p>
<p>trifling. So it was, not a man missing in the </p>
<p>whole division. The prisoners looked rough enough I </p>
<p>tell you. They certainly are no match for </p>
<p>our soldiers. Their knowledge of the country is the </p>
<p>only thing that gives them the advantage and it certain</p>
<p>ly is so, that they are destitute. They must suc</p>
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<p>[Continued from the continuation of page 4 on page 1]</p>
<p> </p>
<p>But I must close for I am going to write to John Thorne to night. I have written </p>
<p>a very </p>
<p>uninteresting </p>
<p>letter, but </p>
<p>I suppose </p>
<p>most any</p>
<p>thing will </p>
<p>be welcome </p>
<p>at home.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Excuse </p>
<p>writing </p>
<p>for it has </p>
<p>been </p>
<p>written </p>
<p>in great </p>
<p>haste. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Affec </p>
<p>Brother </p>
<p>Johnnie</p>
<p> </p>
<p>love to </p>
<p>Aunt </p>
<p>Abby. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>John</p>
<p> </p>
<hr>
<p> </p>
<p>cumb. I haven’t a doubt that the thing will </p>
<p>be settled before I return. Four or five days ago </p>
<p>one brigade went from here toward Weldon and today </p>
<p>one battery and a regiment of cavalry went the same </p>
<p>way. We have a lots of rumors about them, one is, that </p>
<p>they have gone aboard transports on the Chowan to cooperate with Banks </p>
<p>another is that they have gone aboard transports and are </p>
<p>coming up to Franklin to cooperate with us. Others say </p>
<p>they have gone to tear up the Rail Road between Weldon </p>
<p>and Franklin to cut off their supplies, & I guess </p>
<p>if the truth were known no body except those in authority </p>
<p>know where they are. They took 10 days rations with them </p>
<p>Our camp, as I wrote last night has been moved </p>
<p>temporarily and it makes my work since harder </p>
<p>but, I like the running too & fro when it isnt too </p>
<p>cold. Ice forms in a night hard enough to bear in </p>
<p>the morning thats <u>pretty</u> cool. I was interrupted </p>
<p>by a serenade given to our Chaplain [John W. Hanson of Haverhill, Ma.]. He is liked by </p>
<p>the boys. He dont bother them much with his religion </p>
<p>but is always kind and pleasant. I like to talk with </p>
<p>him for he is <u>very</u> well informed, and I can learn </p>
<p>so much from him at the same time be interested </p>
<p>I think he should have been a Congregationalist </p>
<p>for he is so consistent in all his actions, just what </p>
<p>he professes, and I have seen other chaplains </p>
<p>that are not. Tell Gordan if he wants to hear </p>
<p>from me once in a while he must write to me </p>
<p>and then he will hear direct. I dont as its policy </p>
<p>to have <u>many</u> more correspondents, but I can </p>
<p>find room for Gordan. I’ll agree to write to all </p>
<p>that write to me let them be who they will. I dont </p>
<p>know as you’ll agree to furnish me stamps however </p>
<p>I pity those poor fellows that are in camp at Lowell </p>
<p>for they are green and wont know how to take </p>
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<p>advantage of everything to make them comfortable </p>
<p>I dont know though, they are Massachusetts men </p>
<p>and will get along well enough, I reckon. </p>
<p>Give me Mass. men for all anything I have seen </p>
<p>yet. You can tell their camps as quick as can be. </p>
<p>I should kind of like to be in that battery for </p>
<p>the remainder of my term of service, if it was well </p>
<p>officered and had good men. It is a prettier </p>
<p>branch of the service. If I thought I could </p>
<p>get a “commish” in that branch I dont know but </p>
<p>what I should be willing to make “sogering” my </p>
<p>“biz.” Mary are you going back to New Market? </p>
<p>If not what are you going to do? I mean to go </p>
<p>West when I return home. I feel more & more </p>
<p>impressed with the idea that that is the place </p>
<p>for a young man. What do you think about it </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Tuesday. 9 Dec. 1862 </p>
<p>You see I did not have time to finish my letter </p>
<p>last night. I expect there’s another Blackwater </p>
<p>trip tomorrow, another long hard march and lying </p>
<p>out over night for two nights and nothing accomplished </p>
<p>but keeping the rebs. at Franklin. I am like </p>
<p>the Yankee that didnt want <del>the</del> to strike the back </p>
<p>of the log with an axe, no. the log with the back </p>
<p>of the axe for he wanted to see the chips fly. </p>
<p>We are striking with the back of the axe and I </p>
<p>dont like it. We probably shant cross over to </p>
<p>Franklin until Gen Foster [General Robert Sanford Foster] takes Weldon then says </p>
<p>I, somebody goes from Suffolk. We had one </p>
<p>Brigade go from here last week and it has joined </p>
<p>Foster at Newberne NC. They went to the </p>
<p>Blackwater and took transports and went down </p>
<p>the river. I’d like to take the same route. </p>
<p>Nothing particular going on here now so there’s </p>
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<p>nothing to write. All the boys are well and getting </p>
<p>along well as far as I can see. I did some </p>
<p>mending to day and I thought of home wishing </p>
<p>mother was here to fix them for me. I sit so much </p>
<p>I wear them out and they need to be reinforced. </p>
<p>How would you like to see me don the thimble </p>
<p>and wield the needle. A man dont know what </p>
<p>he can do until he tries. I find that I improve </p>
<p>every time I do any sewing, or darning. I can </p>
<p>darn stockings right smart, or so that they near </p>
<p>first rate. I dont look in the glass often out </p>
<p>here but every time that I do I am astonished </p>
<p>at the change that has come over your </p>
<p>brother. About every week some of the tell me that </p>
<p>they can see that another hair has started on my </p>
<p>face. The Lieut. Col. [Lt. Col. Melvin Beal of Lawrence, Ma.] advises me to come down to </p>
<p>guard mounting often, for the drums to be the </p>
<p>assembly and call my whiskers together. </p>
<p>Billy has to catch it too. By the way, if you </p>
<p>have a chance I wish you would send me on </p>
<p>my knife, for somebody has stolen my other one.</p>
<p>Tell Henry Howard I should not know what </p>
<p>to do without the knife he gave me, remember me </p>
<p>to him, tell him Alph Sawyer [Alfred A. Sawyer of Lowell, private, Co. G, Sixth Massachusetts] is doing well. </p>
<p>Billy S. had a letter from Kent last night. He </p>
<p>is doing well so I guess your fears are unfounded </p>
<p>Mary, you think <del>my</del> that motto is not right do you </p>
<p>I think so too, but at the same time I think I </p>
<p>should fight for my country against a foreign </p>
<p>power even if she were in the wrong. I’m sort of </p>
<p>afraid that we shall have trouble with England </p>
<p>bye & bye after this thing is settled. The only </p>
<p>way they’ll get soldiers then will be by draft. </p>
<p>We have lots of drafted men here and we have lots </p>
<p> </p>
<hr>
<p> </p>
<p>[Continued on page 1]</p>
<p> </p>
<p>of spirit out of them. Last night there was cannonading somewhere and they asked some of </p>
<p>our boys (on picket) </p>
<p>how far the rebs </p>
<p>were, the reply “about </p>
<p>2 miles.” It made </p>
<p>their eyes hang out </p>
<p>and I tell you </p>
<p>they did their duty </p>
<p>smart after that </p>
<p>There’s one regt. </p>
<p>about all Penna. </p>
<p>Dutchmen and </p>
<p>theres lots of </p>
<p>spirit with them </p>
<p>on picket.</p>
<p> </p>
[Continued on page 2 from continuation on page 1]</p>
<p> </p>
<p>But I must close for I am going to write to John Thorne to night. I have written </p>
<p>a very </p>
<p>uninteresting </p>
<p>letter, but </p>
<p>I suppose </p>
<p>most any</p>
<p>thing will </p>
<p>be welcome </p>
<p>at home.</p>
<p>Excuse </p>
<p>writing </p>
<p>for it has </p>
<p>been </p>
<p>written </p>
<p>in great </p>
<p>haste. </p>
<p>Affec </p>
<p>Brother </p>
<p>Johnnie</p>
<p>love to </p>
<p>Aunt </p>
<p>Abby. </p>
<p>John</p>
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This collection consists of seventeen letters. Sixteen of these were written by John C. Watkins and one is by his wife, Harriet (Hattie) Watkins. Three are fragments. All were written to friends and family back home in Lowell, Massachusetts, first, when Watkins served as a private with the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment in Suffolk, Virginia in 1862 and 1863; then while in Washington, DC, from 1864 to 1866; and, lastly, while serving with the Eighth Cavalry as Acting Assistant Surgeon at Camp Winfield Scott, Nevada. The letter written by Hattie Watkins is from Winnemucca, Nevada, and is dated 17 January 1870, shortly after the couple were married.
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<br /><p>Head Qurs Sixth Regt. Mass. Vols Camp Suffolk Va Dec 8th</p>
<p> </p>
<p>My Dear Sisters. </p>
<p>I hardly know how to commence my letters half the time, for I know you both would like to have them addressed to you individually, and I want to answer your letters and would like to write to each of you but, I have not the time, so I think well, they write for the whole, so I’ll address the whole. I have just received Mary’s letter this evening and I got one from O. night before last and wrote home last night. I have just been writing to Minnie, and it is pretty late but the Adjt is out and I’ll write till he comes. It is quite cool here now and I rather think that I should prefer to stay here this Winter, but there is every chance of our moving. These trips to the Blackwater are merely feints to draw their attention and to keep some little force at Franklin. and is but preparatory to a movement that will “astonish the natives”. I dread this lying out nights, for it will cause so much sickness The regiment is pretty healthy. There has one disease go into it that makes me feel badly about it. Diptheria one has died with it to day. Do not tell people of it in L. for most of the boys dont know it. The surgeon told me and said there were two or three that had it in its mild stages. You spoke of the skirmish, saying our loss was trifling. So it was, not a man missing in the whole division. The prisoners looked rough enough I tell you. They certainly are no match for our soldiers. Their knowledge of the country is the only thing that gives them the advantage and it certainly is so, that they are destitute. They must succumb. I haven’t a doubt that the thing will be settled before I return. Four or five days ago one brigade went from here toward Weldon and today one battery and a regiment of cavalry went the same way. We have a lots of rumors about them, one is, that they have gone aboard transports on the Chowan to cooperate with Banks another is that they have gone aboard transports and are coming up to Franklin to cooperate with us. Others say they have gone to tear up the Rail Road between Weldon and Franklin to cut off their supplies, & I guess if the truth were known no body except those in authority know where they are. They took 10 days rations with them Our camp, as I wrote last night has been moved temporarily and it makes my work since harder but, I like the running too & fro when it isnt too cold. Ice forms in a night hard enough to bear in the morning thats pretty cool. I was interrupted by a serenade given to our Chaplain. He is liked by the boys. He dont bother them much with his religion but is always kind and pleasant. I like to talk with him for he is very well informed, and I can learn so much from him at the same time be interrested I think he should have been a Congregationalist for he is so consistent in all his actions, just what he professes, and I have seen other chaplains that are not. Tell Gordon if he wants to hear from me once in a while he must write to me and then he will hear direct. I dont as its policy to have many more correspondents, but I can find room for Gordon. I’ll agree to write to all that write to me let them be who they will. I dont know as you’ll agree to furnish me stamps however I pity those poor fellows that are in camp at Lowell for they are green and wont know him to take advantage of everything to make them comfortable I dont know though, they are Massachusetts men and will get along well enough, I reckon. Give me Mass. men for all anything I have seen yet. You can tell their camps as quick as can be. I should kind of like to be in that battery for the remainder of my term of service, if it was well officered and had good men. It is a prettier branch of the service. If I thought I could get a “commish” in that branch I dont know but what I should be willing to make “sogering” my “biz” Mary are you going back to New Market? If not what are you going to do? I mean to go West when I return home. I feel more & more impressed with the idea that that is the place for a young man. What do you think about it </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Tuesday. 9 Dec. 1862 </p>
<p> </p>
<p>You see I did not have time to finish my letter last night. I expect there’s another Blackwater trip tomorrow, another long hard march and lying out over night for two nights and nothing accomplished but keeping the rebs. at Franklin. I am like the Yankee that didnt want to strike the back of the log with an axe, no. the log with the back of the axe for he wanted to see the chips fly. We are striking with the back of the axe and I dont like it. We probably shant cross over to Franklin until Gen Foster takes Weldon then says I, somebody goes from Suffolk. We had one Brigade go from here last week and it has joined Foster at Newberne NC. They went to the Blackwater and took transports and went down the river. I’d like to take the same route. Nothing particular going on here now so there’s nothing to write. All the boys are well and getting along well as far as I can see. I did some mending to day and I thought of home wishing mother was here to fix them for me. I sit so much I wear them out and they need to be reinforced. How would you like to see me don the thimble and wield the needle. A man dont know what he can do until he tries. I find that I improve every time I do any sewing, or darning. I can darn stockings right smart, or so that they near first rate. I dont look in the glass often out here but every time that I do I am astonished at the change that has come over your brother. About every week some of the tell me that they can see that another hair has started on my face. The Lieut. Col. advises me to come down to guard mounting often, for the drums to be the assembly and call my whiskers together. Billy has to catch it too. By the way, if you have a chance I wish you would send me on my knife, for somebody has stolen my other one. Tell Henry Howard I should not know what to do without the knife he gave me, remember me to him, tell him Alph Sawyer is doing well. Billy S. had a letter from Kent last night. He is doing well so I guess your fears are unfounded. Mary, you think that motto is not right do you I think so too, but at the same time I think I should fight for my country against a foreign power even if she were in the wrong. I’m sort of afraid that we shall have trouble with England bye & bye after this thing is settled. The only way they’ll get soldiers then will be by draft. We have lots of drafted men here and we have lots of spirit out of them. Last night there was cannonading somewhere and they asked some of our boys (on picket) how far the rebs were. the reply “about 2 miles”. It made their eyes hang out and I tell you they did their duty smart after that. There’s one regt. about all Penna. Dutchmen and theres lots of spirit with them on picket. But I must close for I am going to write to John Thorne to night. I have written a very uninteresting letter, but I suppose most anything will be welcome at home. </p>
<p> </p>
<p> Excuse writing for it has been written in great haste. </p>
<p> </p>
<p> Affec Brother Johnnie </p>
<p> </p>
love to Aunt Abby.
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<p>[Continued from page 4]</p>
<p> </p>
<p>probably ever will be to any living woman, but I think it isn’t fair to make any body</p>
<p>wait when you know I shall not be in any condition to have serious intentions </p>
<p>for years to come and I think it would be fair to give them a chance </p>
<p>to take somebody else. Kiss her for me will you. I would if I were there. </p>
<p>As I am writing Orin Park [Orrin R. Park, from Lowell, corporal, Company A, Sixth Massachusetts; died, Suffolk, 15 November 1862] is being carried to the depot to be sent home. </p>
<p>You know he died last week. Jennie Thomas’ husband will soon be following. </p>
<p>But I must close, want of ideas and time for mail </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Your affec son & Brother </p>
<p>Johnnie</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Give my love to all the neighbors Hills Holdens Lowes Spritz & Adams </p>
<p>No mother I cant expect you to write often but I like to hear from </p>
<p>home and from you when you have a chance </p>
<p>What is Mary going to do now</p>
<p> </p>
<hr><p> </p>
<p>Camp Suffolk Virginia Nov. 23rd 1862</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear Friends at home,</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Why dont you write oftener? </p>
<p>I suppose you have sent something in the boxes </p>
<p>sent by the city and have sent a letter with it </p>
<p>but it is longer coming so than by mail. I wish </p>
<p>you would write twice a week. I go to the P.O. </p>
<p>every night and deacon says no letters for you, and </p>
<p>I sometimes feel rather hard about it when I see </p>
<p>others having two or three and sometimes more in </p>
<p>a week from the same person. Since I wrote last </p>
<p>I have been up to the “Blackwater” renamed here in </p>
<p>S. [Suffolk, Va.] by our frequent raids, and I have been, I guess </p>
<p>you’d call it, “under fire” but it was so far under </p>
<p>that I did not feel frightened, although I could </p>
<p>hear the bullets whiz about 30 feet over my head </p>
<p>and one horse was killed (no shot) about 30 yds </p>
<p>front of me. Two of our Regiment were taken pris</p>
<p>oners. I will give you a little description of our </p>
<p>trip. Monday morning I saw the Colonel [Colonel Albert S. Follansbee, of Lowell]</p>
<p>flying around and a hint was dropped so that I </p>
<p>thought “something was up.” I took my gun down </p>
<p>to the quarters and had a new tube fixed in. the old </p>
<p>ones were useless and most of them had been exchanged </p>
<p>At noon orders were given to prepare, and fall in at </p>
<p>1½ o clock. I fortified myself for the march by eating </p>
<p>a good dinner and filled my haversack with “hard </p>
<p>tack” raw salt pork, coffee & sugar. We commenced </p>
<p>the march and I must say I never knew the </p>
<p>powers of human endurance before. We would march </p>
<p>an hour and then halt 15 or 10 minutes. As soon as </p>
<p>we would halt down would go the whole regiment on </p>
<p>the side of the road. If we were near a fence, off </p>
<p>would come the rails till it was low enough to sit on </p>
<p>It was destruction to fences I tell you. </p>
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<p>You know at home we call 3 miles an hour rather </p>
<p>slow travelling. If we did as much as that we </p>
<p>thought it pretty “tall.” We marched all night </p>
<p>and went about 5 miles above Franklin on the Black</p>
<p>water. We turned down a road into a mans farm </p>
<p>and there the Rebs. sat on a fence, that is the </p>
<p>pickets, our men let fly and they replied. then </p>
<p>our artillery ran to the edge of the hill and let them </p>
<p>have a round of cannister. then they shelled them, and </p>
<p>after they were out of sight in the woods they shelled </p>
<p>their camp on the other side. As soon as the firing </p>
<p>commenced we tore down the fence and let the Cavalry </p>
<p>pass through, and we followed double quick and formed </p>
<p>in line to support the battery. Then was the time </p>
<p>we saw pale faces. two companies were deployed as </p>
<p>skirmishes but did nothing as there was nothing to </p>
<p>do. The battery then went down into the ravine and </p>
<p>shelled the woods and the cavalry followed and crossed </p>
<p>the ford, we after them and formed a line on this side </p>
<p>the pontoons were then brought down and one company </p>
<p>crossed and went into the enemies camp. After they </p>
<p>returned Co. G was deployed as skirmishers until the </p>
<p>remainder of the regiments and the battery got out </p>
<p>of the ravine. I suppose so that their scouts could </p>
<p>not return and pick off our men. I send you a </p>
<p>little leaf that I picked off the tree where I was </p>
<p>stationed. I saw but one reb. run from one tree to </p>
<p>another. This was the only one seen. One of the Indiana </p>
<p>boys saw him first, and I afterward. He kept concealed </p>
<p>and no one got a shot at him. We then countermarched </p>
<p>about a mile and a half, stopped and ate breakfast </p>
<p>fried our pork and made some coffee in our tin cups </p>
<p>perhaps you think coffee aint good made that way </p>
<p>I assure you it was “bully,” and tasted as good as </p>
<p>home made coffee. The only thing we did not like </p>
<p>was what we call “sandwiches,” wormy hard tack, </p>
<p>bread outside and meat inside. We did not take </p>
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<p>much notice of it however. Then we marched </p>
<p>toward Franklin. before we got there however, we heard </p>
<p>firing and when we got there the shells were flying </p>
<p>right smart. One or two whizzed over our heads and </p>
<p>made some of the boys duck. The plan was for </p>
<p>the part that went up to the first ford to cross </p>
<p>and get in the rear of the troops at Franklin. </p>
<p>if we had there’d have been hot work, but it was </p>
<p>impracticable on account of the ford being too </p>
<p>deep, so that artillery could not cross, and then too a regiment being stationed </p>
<p>there so that it was no surprise as they would get </p>
<p>word. Our other division was to attack them in front </p>
<p>at the same time. They did not reply much at </p>
<p>Franklin and our troops withdrew about three miles </p>
<p>to bivouac for the night. We cooked our coffee and </p>
<p>pork and <del>l</del> wrapping ourselves in our rubber blankets </p>
<p>laid down under the starry dome to a soldiers </p>
<p>rest and a rest it was. I did not wake until </p>
<p>4 o’clock when we were ordered to get breakfast and </p>
<p>start before day break, for they feared an attack. </p>
<p>After we returned to Suffolk the General said it </p>
<p>was lucky we did not cross at Franklin, for he </p>
<p>had received reliable intelligence that they had been </p>
<p>reinforced by ten thousand troops from Weldon N.C </p>
<p>Where Gen. Foster had been pushing them back. </p>
<p>Well, we marched with occasional rests, until we </p>
<p>got to Suffolk having been gone 48 hours and in </p>
<p>the time marched <u>over</u> 60 miles. I had a short </p>
<p>ride on the Adjutants horse. As I said before I </p>
<p>did not know the power of human endurance. </p>
<p>I would march until I thought I should drop </p>
<p>and where money would not have hired me to hang </p>
<p>on pride kept me up. I did not straggle until </p>
<p>we got most home then I fell back and swapped </p>
<p>places with one of the Cavalry boys. He was as glad </p>
<p>as I was. It was tough I tell you to find my </p>
<p>feet all blistered and yet hang to it, but I did </p>
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<p>I can say that I have been under fire anyway. </p>
<p>From something the Adj. just said I imagine </p>
<p>we are likely to move at any time. Wont it </p>
<p>be tough to march far? knapsack & all. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Monday Morning, Nov. 24, 1862 </p>
<p>I received your letter last night and should have </p>
<p>finished mine but I did not have time. I am </p>
<p>glad my things are coming for I need them, and the </p>
<p>eatables for Billy has lots a coming and I want </p>
<p>some to counterbalance for we mess together. We </p>
<p>are to have a little shanty up here somewhere between </p>
<p>the Colonel’s & Adjutants. I hope it will be up before </p>
<p>Christmas. I mean Thanksgiving. We have laid out for the </p>
<p>day for our commissary has offered to give me a baking piece </p>
<p>of meat & the Hed Qurter cooks have promised to bake it. </p>
<p>Then we are going to have a bread pudding &c We were </p>
<p>going to save our rations of bread but somebody promised </p>
<p>to give us the bread if we’d give them a plate of pudding </p>
<p>so that is all “hunky”. I have no reason to complain of </p>
<p>our rations for I am growing fat on them, although they </p>
<p>are not just what I should want at home. So Ed [Nicks?] </p>
<p>is going to Liverpool I wish I was going with </p>
<p>him I’d give anything. I mean to see that country </p>
<p>sometime if I get out of this scrape alive. I heard </p>
<p>that all the females & children were ordered out of town </p>
<p>I dont know what it means and dont care much. I’d </p>
<p>rather they’d come here than to go 30 miles after them </p>
<p>and then not have a slash at them. This is the first </p>
<p>that I have heard of John Calef’s being at home. </p>
<p>Why didn’t you write? and I did not know that [?] </p>
<p>was in Boston. where is he? Where is the Dr going </p>
<p>to set up house keeping. How does Ella like it. give her </p>
<p>my love & the Dr. So Mary you think F. is splendid </p>
<p>So do I. So you think I’m not fair That there ought </p>
<p>to be some understanding &c “I ought to let her know if I </p>
<p>do or do not have any serious intentions for the future no </p>
<p>matter how distant” My intentions are as serious as they </p>
<p> </p><hr>
<p> </p>
<p>[Continued on page 1]</p>
<p> </p>
<p>probably ever will be to any living woman, but I think it isn’t fair to make any body </p>
<p>wait when you know I shall not be in any condition to have serious intentions </p>
<p>for years to come and I think it would be fair to give them a chance </p>
<p>to take somebody else. Kiss her for me will you. I would if I were there. </p>
<p>As I am writing Orin Park [Orrin R. Park, from Lowell, corporal, Company A, Sixth Massachusetts; died, Suffolk, 15 November 1862]is being carried to the depot to be sent home. </p>
<p>You know he died last week. Jennie Thomas’ husband will soon be following. </p>
<p>But I must close, want of ideas and time for mail </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Your affec son & Brother </p>
<p>Johnnie</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Give my love to all the neighbors Hills Holdens Lowes Spritz & Adams </p>
<p>No mother I cant expect you to write often but I like to hear from </p>
<p>home and from you when you have a chance </p>
<p>What is Mary going to do now</p>
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This collection consists of seventeen letters. Sixteen of these were written by John C. Watkins and one is by his wife, Harriet (Hattie) Watkins. Three are fragments. All were written to friends and family back home in Lowell, Massachusetts, first, when Watkins served as a private with the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment in Suffolk, Virginia in 1862 and 1863; then while in Washington, DC, from 1864 to 1866; and, lastly, while serving with the Eighth Cavalry as Acting Assistant Surgeon at Camp Winfield Scott, Nevada. The letter written by Hattie Watkins is from Winnemucca, Nevada, and is dated 17 January 1870, shortly after the couple were married.
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<h2>Transcript:</h2>
<p>Camp Suffolk Virginia Nov. 23<sup>rd</sup> 1862</p>
<p>Dear Friends at home,</p>
<p>Why dont you write oftener? I suppose you have sent something in the boxes sent by the city and have sent a letter with it but it is longer coming so than by mail. I wish you would write twice a week. I go to the P.O. every night and deacon [?] says no letters for you, and I sometimes feel rather hard about it when I see others having two or three and sometimes more in a week from the same person. Since I wrote last I have been up to the “Blackwater” remained here in S[offolk] by our frequent raids, and I have been, I guess you'd call it, “under fire” but it was so far under that I did not feel frightened, although I could hear the bullets whiz about 30 feet over my head and one horse was killed (no shot) about 30 yds front of me. Two of our Regiment were taken prisoners. I will give you a little description of our trip. Monday morning I saw the Colonel flying around and a hint was dropped so that I thought "something was up." I took my gun down to the quarters and had a new tube fixed [in]. The old ones were useless and most of them had been exchanged At noon orders were given to prepare, and fall in at 1½ o’clock. I fortified myself for the march by eating a good dinner and filled my haversack with "hard tack" raw salt pork, coffee & sugar. We commenced the march and I must say I never knew the powers of human endurance before. We would march an hour and then halt 15 or 10 minutes. As soon as we would halt down would go the whole regiment on the side of the road. If we were near a fence, off would come the rails till it was low enough to sit on. It was destruction to fences I tell you.</p>
<p>You know at home we call 3 miles an hour rather slow travelling. If we did as much as that we thought it pretty "tall." We marched all night and went about 5 miles above Franklin on the Blackwater. We turned down a road into a mans farm and there the Rebs. sat on a fence, that is the pickets, our men let fly and they replied. then our artillery ran to the edge of the hill and let them have a round of cannister. then they shelled them, and after they were out of sight in the woods they shelled their camp on the other side. As soon as the firing commenced we tore down the fence and let the Cavalry pass through. and we followed double quick and formed in line to support the battery. Then was the time we saw pale faces. two companies were deployed as skirmishers but did nothing as there was nothing to do. The battery then went down into the ravine and shelled the woods and the cavalry followed and crossed the ford we after them and formed a line on this side the pontoons were brought down and one company crossed and went into the enemies camp. After they returned Co. G was deployed as skirmishers until the remainder of the regiments and the battery got out of the ravine. I suppose so that their scouts could not return and pick off our men. I send you a little leaf that I picked off the tree where I was stationed. I saw but one reb. run from one tree to another. This was the only one seen. One of the Indiana boys saw him first, and I afterward. We kept concealed and no one got a shot at him. We then countermarched about a mile and a half, stopped and ate breakfast fried our pork and made some coffee in our tin cups perhaps you think coffee aint good made that way I assure you it was "bully," and tasted as good as home made coffee. The only thing we did not like was what we call "sandwiches," wormy hard tack, bread outside and meat inside. We did not take much notice of it however. Then we marched toward Franklin>. before we got there however, we heard firing and when we got there the shells were flying right smart. One or two whizzed over our heads and made some of the boys duck. The plan was for the part that went up to the first ford to cross and get in the rear of the troops at Franklin. if we had there'd have been hot work, but it was impracticable on account of the ford being too deep, so that artillery could not cross, and then too a regiment being stationed there so that it was no surprise as they would get word. Our other division was to attack them in front at the same time. They did not reply much at Franklin and our troops withdrew about three miles to bivouac for the night. We cooked our coffee and pork and wrapping ourselves in our rubber blankets laid down under the starry dome to a soldier’s rest and a rest it was. I did not wake until 4 o'clock when we were ordered to get breakfast and start before day break, for they feared an attack. After we returned to Suffolk the General said it was lucky we did not cross at Franklin, for he had received reliable intelligence that they had been reinforced by ten thousand troops from Weldon N.C. Where Gen. Foster had been pushing them back. Well, we marched with occasional rests, until we got to Suffolk having been gone 48 hours and in the time marched <span style="text-decoration:underline;">over</span> 60 miles. I had a short ride on the Adjutants horse. As I said before I did not know the power of human endurance, I would march until I thought I should drop and where money would not have hired me to hang on pride kept me up. I did not straggle until we got most home then I fell back and swapped places with one of the Cavalry boys. He was as glad as I was. It was tough I tell you to find my feet all blistered and yet hang to it but I did</p>
<p>I can say that I have been under fire anyway. From something the Adj. just said I imagine we are likely to move at any time. Wont it be tough to march far? knapsack & all.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Monday Morning, Nov. 24, 1862 <br /><br /> I received your letter last night and should have finished mine but I did not have time. I am glad my things are coming for I need them. and the eatables for Billy has lots a coming and I want some to counterbalance for we mess together. We are to have a little shanty up here somewhere between the Colonel's & Adjutants. I hope it will be up before Christmas. I mean Thanksgiving. We have laid out for the day for our commissary has offered to give me a baking piece of meat & the Hd Quarter cooks have promised to bake it. Then we are going to have a bread pudding etc. We were going to save our rations of bread but somebody promised to give us the bread if we'd give them a plate of pudding so that is all "hunky". I have no reason to complain of our rations for I am growing fat on them. although they are not just what I should want at home. So Ed Hicks is going to Liverpool I wish I was going with him I'd give anything. I mean to see that country sometime if I get out of this scrape alive. I heard that all the females & children were ordered out of town I dont know what it means and dont care much. I'd rather they'd come here than to go 30 miles after them and then not have a slash at them. This is the first that I have heard of John Calef's being at home. Why didn't you write? and I did not know that [?] was in Boston. where is he? Where is the Dr going to set up house keeping. How does Ella like it. give her my love & the Dr. So Mary you think F. [?] is splendid So do I. So you think I'm not fair That there ought to be some understanding etc. "I ought to let her know if I do or do not have any serious intentions for the future no matter how distant" My intentions are as serious as they probably ever will be to any living woman, but I think it isn't fair to make any body wait when you know I shall not be in any condition to have serious intentions for years to come and I think it would be fair to give them a chance to take somebody else. Kiss her for me will you, I would if I were there. As I am writing Orin Park is being carried to the depot to be sent home. You know he died last week. Jennie Thomas’ husband will soon be following. But I must close. want of ideas and time for mail</p>
<p><br /> Your affec son & Brother <br /> Johnnie <br /> Give my love to all the neighbors Hills Holdens Lanes Spritz & Adams. No mother I cant expect you to write often but I like to hear from home and from you when you have a chance</p>
<p>What is Mary going to do now</p>
<p> </p>
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<p> </p>
Suffolk Va. Sept. 16 1862</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dear folks at home, </p>
<p>It is after Tattoo but I am </p>
<p>determined to commence a letter for home and finish</p>
<p>it when I can. I sent one letter from Fort Monroe </p>
<p>a few lines and then I asked Mr Foote to call in
<p>at the Holden’s and tell them he saw me at Fort Monroe </p>
<p>all well &c. We went to Norfolk Sunday night and </p>
<p>staid aboard the boat until the next morning we then took </p>
<p>the cars and came to this “God forsaken country. All the residents </p>
<p>are Secesh. and all the able bodied citizens are in the Rebel </p>
<p>Army. The orchard where we are encamped belongs to </p>
<p>a Genl. in the Southern Army. As soon as we got here our boys </p>
<p>(Co. G I mean) went into the apples and picked about three </p>
<p>barrels we got rather more than our share but it was </p>
<p>“First come first served.” We have begun to hear the usual Camp </p>
<p>rumors. To day we heard heavy guns some where and thought </p>
<p>there must have been an engagement somewhere. Our scouts </p>
<p>came in to day and reported the Rebels coming in force from </p>
<p>Petersburgh. to day extra pickets were advanced two miles farther </p>
<p>and an extra force. We are under marching orders to be ready </p>
<p>at a minutes warning, and have to keep our things packed </p>
<p>all the time, and a days ration ahead cooked. I found </p>
<p>that the farther South we came the faster & freer the camp </p>
<p>stories came. We believe none of them. We only know we are </p>
<p>on the extreme point of the extent of our Army (Suffolk </p>
<p>being, as far as our Army extends in) and that with an </p>
<p>Indiana Regiment we are on the extreme right of this Brigade </p>
<p>(By the right I mean the advance) We are encamped in a beau</p>
<p>tiful place and could not ask for a prettier encampment</p>
<p>There are six regiments of infantry here (not full all of them, probably </p>
<p>4500 in all) two Batteries, and one Reg of Cavalry. They are expec</p>
<p>ting more here every day. Our Gen’s name is O.S. Ferry [Brigadier General Orris S. Ferry]. </p>
<p>I have to send in my morning report to him every morning. </p>
<p>To day I have had to work very hard and I have one days </p>
<p>work ahead of me now, but I must find time to write home </p>
<p>I am in the Adjutants tent. I bunk here all the time with him </p>
<p>and have everything but my rations here with him. that is the </p>
<p>reason I am allowed lights after Taps. Only Head Quarters </p>
<p>are allowed them after that time. I little thought six weeks ago I </p>
<p>should write by the light of a “farthing dip.” While I am writing we can </p>
<p>hear two or three guns in the direction of our pickets but as they do not </p>
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<p>continue we think it may be some run away nigger trying to pass </p>
<p>our lines. They come in squads of from 10 to 40 sometimes from as </p>
<p>far as N. Carolina and are brought into our Provost Marshall by the </p>
<p>pickets and by him sent to Washington or Fort Monroe. The Indiana </p>
<p>Regs are quite “hunk” with our boys. As soon as we came here </p>
<p>Co G. of their Reg. brought Co. G. of our Reg. pails of hot coffee and some </p>
<p>soft bread. They said “they knew what hungry soldiers were.” We had </p>
<p>had nothing but hard tack all the way. (Such as Wm Kent sent us </p>
<p>you know.) I did not know but what I should be like some of the </p>
<p>boys at Ship Island. They had not seen soft bread for so long that </p>
<p>when there teeth went through it, it went so easy they nearly crushed </p>
<p>both jaws. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Dark Wednesday eve</p>
<p>Fears of a surprise to night so I </p>
<p>must get some sleep and cant finish this </p>
<p>Plucky. Such is life & war, will write </p>
<p>soon</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Your aff Son & Brother,</p>
<p>and if the Holdens receive it</p>
<p>Your aff friend</p>
<p>John Watkins</p>
<p>I cant see my signature, too dark</p>
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This collection consists of seventeen letters. Sixteen of these were written by John C. Watkins and one is by his wife, Harriet (Hattie) Watkins. Three are fragments. All were written to friends and family back home in Lowell, Massachusetts, first, when Watkins served as a private with the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment in Suffolk, Virginia in 1862 and 1863; then while in Washington, DC, from 1864 to 1866; and, lastly, while serving with the Eighth Cavalry as Acting Assistant Surgeon at Camp Winfield Scott, Nevada. The letter written by Hattie Watkins is from Winnemucca, Nevada, and is dated 17 January 1870, shortly after the couple were married.
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1862-1870
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Ms2009-071
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<h2><strong>Transcript:</strong></h2>
<p>Suffolk Va.</p>
<p>Sept. 16 1862</p>
<p>Dear folks at home,</p>
<p>It is after Tattoo but I am determined to commence a letter for home and finish it when I can. I sent one letter from Fort Monroe a few lines and then I asked Mr Foote to call in at the Holden’s and tell them he saw me at Fort Monroe all well &c. We went to Norfolk Sunday night and staid aboard the boat until the next morning we then took the cars and came to this "God forsaken country. All the residents are Secesh. and all the able bodied citizens are in the Rebel Army. The orchard where we are encamped belongs to a Genl. in the Southern Army. As soon as we got here our boys (Co. G I mean) went into the apples and picked about three barrels we got rather more than our share but it was "First come first served." We have begun to hear the usual Camp rumors. To day we heard heavy guns some where and thought there must have been an engagement somewhere. Our scouts came in to day and reported the Rebels coming in force from Petersburgh. To day extra pickets were advanced two miles farther and an extra force. We are under marching orders to be ready at a minutes warning, and have to keep our things packed all the time, and a days ration ahead cooked. I found that the farther South we came the faster & freer the camp stories came. We believe none of them. We only know we are on the extreme point of the extent of our Army (Suffolk being, as far as our Army extends in) and that with an Indiana Regiment we are on the extreme right of this Brigade (By the right I mean the advance) We are encamped in a beautiful place and could not ask for a prettier encampment. There are six regiments of infantry here (not full all of them, probably 4500 in all) two Batteries, and one Reg of Cavalry. They are expecting more here every day. Our Gen's name is O.S. Ferry. I have to send in my morning report to him every morning. To day I have had to work very hard and I have one days work ahead of me now, but I must find time to write home I am in the Adjutants tent. I bunk here all the time with him and have everything but my rations here with him. That is the reason I am allowed lights after Taps. Only Head Quarters are allowed them after that time. I little thought six weeks ago I should write by the light of a "farthing dip." While I am writing we can hear two or three guns in the direction of our pickets but as they do not continue we think it may be some run away nigger trying to pass our lines. They come in squads of from 10 to 40 sometimes from as far as N. Carolina and are brought into our Provost Marshall by the pickets and by him sent to Washington or Fort Monroe. The Indiana Regs are quite "hunk" with our boys. As soon as we came here Co G. of their Reg. brought Co. G. of our Reg. pails of hot coffee and some soft bread. They said "they knew what hungry soldiers were." We had had nothing but hard tack all the way. (Such as Wm Kent sent us you know.) I did not know but what I should be like some of the boys at Ship Island. They had not seen soft bread for so long that when there teeth went through it went so easy they nearly crushed both jaws.</p>
<p>Dark Wednesday eve</p>
<p>Fears of a surprise to night so I must get some sleep and can't finish this Plucky Such is life & war. Will write soon</p>
<p>Your aff Son & Brother<br />and if the Holdens receive it<br />Your aff friend<br />John Watkins</p>
<p>I can't see my signature, too dark</p>
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Letter, John C. Watkins to 'Folks at Home,' Suffolk, Virginia, September 16, 1862 (Ms2009-071)
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John C. Watkins
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1862-09-16
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Letters
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Suffolk, Virginia
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1862
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This is a letter written on September 16, 1862.
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Ms2009_071_WatkinsJohnC_1862_0916
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