Blackman, Francis G., fl. 1861-1865 to Mary Blackman

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GLC02159.01-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
11 November [1861]
Author/Creator
Blackman, Francis G., fl. 1861-1865
Title
to Mary Blackman
Place Written
Hilton Head, South Carolina
Pagination
4 p. : envelope Height: 17 cm, Width: 10.5 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Writes to his mother. "...I never knew what it was to go hungy till I come here...I was on the sick list when we got here but I shouldered my gun and marched with the Regiment...we have had one meal of bull soup, we slept in the sand 3 nights all I had to eat in 30 hours was 1/2 pint of rice." "...10 guns boats but we did not get but one of the boats...the Rebel's genarl was kild and then the rest run and flung their things away...we did at Bull Run..." No year on letter.

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