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Morey, Charles C., fl. 1830-1865 to parents

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GLC#
GLC03523.18.21-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
4 August 1864
Author/Creator
Morey, Charles C., fl. 1830-1865
Title
to parents
Place Written
Brickeystown, Maryland
Pagination
4 p. : Height: 20.2 cm, Width: 25.3 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Reports on his first day of service as 1st Lieutenant of Company "C" of the 2nd Regiment of Vermont Infantry. Encamped near Brickeystown, Maryland. Mentions Captain [Nathaniel] Wales' injury during the Battle of the Wilderness. Discusses a delay in receiving mail. Comments on sister's abstinancy during a time of sickness. Describes rebel pillaging of local flouring mill: "...near here is quite an extensive flouring mill and the owner says that the rebels took about $18.00 worth of flour, wheat and other property from him but he says he is willing to lose it all if we can only accomplish our end this I think shows him to be a Union man yet he may talk that way to blind us but if he was a secessionist they would not have taken his property from him…"

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