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- GLC#
- GLC03603.216-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- March 29, 1863
- Author/Creator
- Coit, Charles M., 1838-1878
- Title
- to his family
- Place Written
- Suffolk, Virginia
- Pagination
- 3 p. :
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Writes he and his company wish they could go back to Connecticut to vote on the Conscription Act, which calls for a draft and excuses men who can furnish a viable replacement or pay the government $300. Says he has heard that an officer cannot walk through the streets of Hartford, Connecticut without being deeply insulted. Writes of wounded men being laughed at by some of the same people who encouraged them to enlist. Notes he had a portrait taken.
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