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

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GLC#
GLC03523.26.09-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
11 May 1865
Author/Creator
Woolston, Charles, fl. 1864-1865
Title
to Maria Woolston
Place Written
Richmond, Virginia
Pagination
4 p. : Height: 20 cm, Width: 12.5 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Reports to his mother that they have marching for miles and miles to Essex County, Virginia in order to get to the house of Virginia Senator Robert Mercer T. Hunter, whom they captured. He called Hunter, "a big dark complected man and said to been the been the best speaker in the Rebel senate." Does not know when they will be discharged but is looking forward to coming home. Feels it will take a least three weeks of "good grub" to get his strength back. States that their rations of sugar are less than ever but blames it on the quatermaster, not the goverment, which allows much more. Reports that they are now camped near Richmond, in the "Window Hospitals," [Widows' Hospital]. Written on stationary of the U.S. Christian Commission.

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