Bogart, Abram, fl. 1825-1865 to Mary M. Bogart and children

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GLC#
GLC03523.11.27-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
09/25/1864
Author/Creator
Bogart, Abram, fl. 1825-1865
Title
to Mary M. Bogart and children
Place Written
Hilton Head, South Carolina
Pagination
4 p. : Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 13 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Writes to wife and children reporting that he is doing well, albeit disenchanted with the war. Tells them that James, possibly a neighbor or friend from home, is sick with dysentery. Reports that there are many other new recruits from Masonville that are sick. Updates them about his colonel, who resigned because he was found drunk in the general's headquarters. Reports that "the boys are danceing in the cookhouse and now it is rollcall and the drums are beating and the boys are falling in to line and then we go to bead and blow the light out..." Letter incomplete and unsigned.

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