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- GLC#
- GLC04197.17-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1862/02/12
- Author/Creator
- Kelly, James R., fl. 1861-1862
- Title
- to Mary Kelly
- Place Written
- Virginia
- Pagination
- 3 p. :
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
The weather has been bad. The regiment moved 16 miles east of their former position at Branch Bridge. The journey, made by rail, proved disastrous as the train let them off in a field with no tents. Two days later another train picked them up and brought them to their current camp where they spent another two days without tents. He has a cold. He mentions rumors of the success of Burnsides' expedition on Roanoke Island. [section dated 2/14/1862] The company moved out last night and took no tents with them. He did not go with them.
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