Woolston, Charles, fl. 1864-1865 to Maria Woolston

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GLC#
GLC03523.26.06-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
6 January 1865
Author/Creator
Woolston, Charles, fl. 1864-1865
Title
to Maria Woolston
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
3 p. : envelope Height: 20 cm, Width: 13 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Written from headquarters of the Army of the Potomac. Writes to his mother in Tullytown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Reports that he is well and received his box. Reports that a man was shot nearby for desertion. Discusses his discharge and is worried that if his father puts up the money, they still might not give him the discharge papers. Writes, "there is a Rebel Congressman in the house at Washington a trying to Negotiate peace none of the soldiers here want to see peace ... when our armies if on the point of victory they dont want to see a dishonerable peace." Describes seeing unburied Confederate soldiers as "an awfle sight."

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