Morey, Charles C. (ca. 1830-1865) to parents
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03523.18.21 Author/Creator: Morey, Charles C. (ca. 1830-1865) Place Written: Brickeystown, Maryland Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 4 August 1864 Pagination: 4 p. ; 20.2 x 25.3 cm. Order a Copy
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…"
Charles C. Morey enlisted as a Corporal on 22 April 1861 (mustered into E Company on 20 June 1861), and was promoted to Full Sergeant on 10 February 1862. The following December he was promoted to Full Sergeant 1st Class and on 31 January 1864 reenlisted in the Union Army. He was promoted twice during 1864, first to Full Lieutenant 1st Class (20 June) and then to Full Captain (24 June 24-effective 31 January 1865). He was wounded in battle at Charles Town, West Virginia (21 August 1864), and killed at Petersburg, Virginia on 2 April 1865.
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