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- GLC#
- GLC06559.086-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 5 May 1864
- Author/Creator
- Thayer, Howard A., fl. 1864
- Title
- to Sarah Ogden
- Place Written
- Alexandria, Virginia
- Pagination
- 4 p. : envelope Height: 21 cm, Width: 26 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Thayer arrived in Washington and was transferred to the first battalion of the " 'Veteran Reserve Corps.'" He guards army supply trains traveling to Alexandria, Virginia. Says he is presently stationed at a camp on the Potomac, and sees troops passing through. He tells her that the whole army is "on the move," and he believes that they are changing their whole base of operations. Discusses the positions of the Union armies under the command of General Joseph Hooker and General Ambrose Burnside. In the latter part of the letter, he reflects on an accident in which a soldier, who only had twenty-three more days to serve in the army, lost his leg when a train car ran off the tracks.
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