Foglesong, John C. to cousin [Lydia A. Bishoff]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03523.40.12 Author/Creator: Foglesong, John C. Place Written: Newport News, Virginia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 24 August 1862 Pagination: 4 p. ; 21.1 x 27.3 cm. Order a Copy
Foglesong received Bishoff's letter on the 22nd, and currently has orders to take transports somewhere at a moment's warning (some think to North Carolina, others believe to New Orleans). Foglesong's Brigade is an Independent Brigade, and consists of the 4th Ohio Regiment, the 7th Virginia Regiment, the 14th Indiana Regiment, and the 8th Ohio Regiment, which has fallen back 80 miles. McClellan's Army has nearly all left but he knows "not whare." Foglesong recently had a terrible time of marching through sand that was shoe-top deep. He has had no water except that taken out of creeks "the color of grass and thick and stinken." According to Foglesong, "no man has an idea what he can stand until he tryes the exposure of soldering it is indeed a Dog life." [fragment missing] He remarks that the day will come when every traitor answers for his part in the rebellion. [fragment missing]
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