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Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1863-03-09 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 John C. Watkins Letters, Ms2009-071 Subject The topic of the resource Civil War Description An account of the resource 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. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource John C. Watkins, 1842-1892 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00417.xml">John C. Watkins Letters, 1862-1870</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1862-1870 Date Accepted Date of acceptance of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Accepted may be relevant are a thesis (accepted by a university department) or an article (accepted by a journal). This collection was donated to Special Collections in 2009. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource mdb Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Permission to publish material from the John C. Watkins Letters must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech. Access Rights Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies. Collection is open for research. Extent The size or duration of the resource. 0.1 cu. ft; 1 folder Rights Holder A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource. Special Collections, University Libraries, Virginia Tech Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Ms2009-071 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. <h2>Transcript</h2> <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 &amp;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 &amp;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 &amp; 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 &amp;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. &amp; 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 Original Format If the image is of an object, state the type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data paper 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 Letter, John C. Watkins to 'Friends at Home,' March 9, 1863 (Ms2009-071) Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource John C. Watkins Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00417.xml" target="_blank">See the Finding Aid for the John C. 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