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- GLC#
- GLC03603.267-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 12 April 1864
- Author/Creator
- Coit, Charles M., 1838-1878
- Title
- to his sister
- Place Written
- Deep Creek, Virginia
- Pagination
- 4 p. :
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Describes a quiet camp and reading a novel called "Pique" until his candle went out at 4 a.m. Thanks her for sending a book called "Lady of the Lake." Describes singing hymns with the other officers and requests that he be sent his chess set from home. Notes that the regiment does not get very many recruits and that those they do get tend to desert. Writes that there is to be an execution of a deserter who Coit believes joined the Rebel side.
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