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- GLC#
- GLC03696.04-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 25 November 1861
- Author/Creator
- Smith, Asa, fl. 1861-1862
- Title
- to mother
- Place Written
- Hampton, Virginia
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 20.3 cm, Width: 12.4 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
to mother [Ann Smith] He notes the arrival of three regiments, saying that it appears there is going to be a fight and implying that Yorktown will be hurt by the Union's forces. He describes how troops from Delaware caught a Confederate soldier, and also captured six more Confederates nearby. He tells of an altercation between the Massachusetts 16th and the New York 20th, a largely German unit. The New York 20th men attacked a Massachusetts 16th soldier one day, which resulted in a huge brawl where the New York 20th got the worse of it. He tells about giving up their meals to a cavalry unit that did not have food. He expresses sentiment that he wants to join the home guard when he gets back because he loves "sojering" so much. Numbered in pencil "27." Written at Camp Hamilton.
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