1 50 1 https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/files/original/4755/Ms2015-051_ConleyIsaiah_1862_xx26a.jpg f2c242327aa4d25ebf07a2f0bcbb07b4 PDF Text Text Cap of 101st Regt. Pa. Vols. Near Suffolk Va. [Oct.] 26 1862 Dear Wife, I have not had a letter from you for some time. About a week ago I rec’d your letter written at Pittsburg. I have not heard from you since, but, our mails are irregular. I hope, however, you have been enjoying yourself. I would like very much to accompany you in your visit. But, as I can’t be with you, I hope you will have a pleasant visit. We are still here, without any definite knowledge of what we are to do. But we are making calculations to stay here this winter. All hands are at work putting up cabins, for winter quarters. Lieut. Mullin (Lieutenant David W. Mullin) & I commenced one last week. We got it raised yesterday. We expect to have it finished this week. We are building it of round logs 12 by 16 feet with a chimney in one end. I will give you a description of it when it is finished. We may have to leave them before winter. We are building at a venture. There has been several heavy frosts here within the last week. It is raining this afternoon. I went https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/files/original/4755/Ms2015-051_ConleyIsaiah_1862_xx26b.jpg 28eac7f8fcd0d6fd38ca03748f05e8c6 PDF Text Text to town to church this forenoon, and it com- menced raining while I was there, so I had to come back to Camp, through the rain. An expedition some 6,000 or 8,000 strong left here on Friday evening for Blackwater. They have just returned, I understand they drove the enemy from Franklin. I have not learned particulars. None of our Brigade were with them. I have not heard anything from Martin, for sometime. We had a Grand Review of all the troops here, last Wednesday by Gen. Peck (Major General John J. Peck) It was a fine military display. There is to [be] another to morrow, by Gen. Dix (Major General John Adams Dix) If the rain continues, however, it will have to be post- poned. The health of the troops here is pretty good. The sick list is small. I see the draft has made some very good hits in the upper end of Bedford Co. I have directed all my letters to Schellsburg as you instructed me. I hope we will soon know whether we are to stay here this winter or not. So that I can let you know whether to come on or not. If we go into winter quarters it might be that I could [get] https://digitalsc.lib.vt.edu/files/original/4755/Ms2015-051_ConleyIsaiah_1862_xx26c.jpg f5342c3e86967761dd0dbb2bdd13d313 PDF Text Text a furlough to go home for a short time, but I do not know how that will be yet. I would like very well to get home for short time to see you & the children and settle up some business. I dont want you to think I am sick of the service. If I live, and am favor with good health, I intend to fight as lone as the rebellion lasts. The only thing I dis- like is being away from my family so long. I think of you daily and often think how much I would enjoy a chat with you and a romp with the children. A man hardly realizes how dear his family are to him until he is seper- ated from them. It is now about eight months since I was last at home. But, that time, with me, has passed almost unnoticed. Much of the time we have spent in active service. And know of no way in which time flies so rapid- ly as to soldier in the field, in camp where we are laying quiet, it passes slowly. The winter will appear long. Remember me kindly to my friends. Write often, and believe me ever Affecty Your Husband I. Conley Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Isaiah Conley Civil War Correspondence and Research Materials, 1862-2000s (Ms2015-051) Subject The topic of the resource Civil War Description An account of the resource The Isaiah Conley Civil War Correspondence and Research Materials includes two series of primary and secondary sources. Series I: Letters, Transcripts, and Narratives, includes 98 letters written by Isaiah Conley to his wife during his service in the 101st Pennsylvania Regiment between 1861 and 1865. This series also has unpublished and published versions of Conley's escape from Confederate captivity. Series II: Research Materials contains correspondence, photocopies, articles, maps, and research files for a history of the 101st Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry that was planned, but never completed, by a previous owner. This series dates from 1980s through the early 2000s. 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Title A name given to the resource Isaiah Conley Civil War Correspondence, [?] 26, 1862 (Ms2015-051) Subject The topic of the resource Civil War Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Conley, Isaiah, 1830-1901 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv01829.xml" target="_blank">See the finding aid for the Isaiah Conley Civil War Correspondence and Research Materials. </a> Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. <a href="http://spec.lib.vt.edu/" target="_blank">Special Collections, University Libraries, Virginia Tech</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-xx-26 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="https://omeka.lib.vt.edu/files/thumbnails/spec_forms/PubPermission.doc">Permission to publish material from the the Isaiah Conley Civil War Correspondence and Research Materials must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Letters Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Ms2015-051_ConleyIsaiah_1862_xx26 Bibliographic Citation A bibliographic reference for the resource. 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