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- GLC#
- GLC03523.20.23-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 9 January 1865
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Andrew, 1835-?
- Title
- to Sarah Knox
- Place Written
- Petersburg, Virginia
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 25.1 cm, Width: 19.8 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Knox writes to his wife from a camp outside Petersburg, Virginia. Tells her not to send anymore shirts, he will buy government shirts and stockings even though they are not as good as hers. States there is plenty of good whiskey available to them for two dollars seventy five cents per gallon. Writes about a visit with his "...coloured servant William..." Says they discussed religion and William is "...a modle of a Christian man." Mentions a possible move to Wilmington, Virginia. Informs of constant shelling and dangerous conditions.
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