Online access and copy requests are not available for this item. You may request to be notified of when this becomes available digitally.
- GLC#
- GLC08165.51-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 09 December 1862
- Author/Creator
- Hutson, Charles J., 1842-1902
- Title
- to Sarah McLeod Hutson
- Place Written
- Fredericksburg, Virginia
- Pagination
- 4 p. :
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Mentions cold in Fredericksburg. Comments that George C. MacKay, and a man named Clap, of McCreary's South Carolina Infantry (1st South Carolina Infantry, Provisional Army) arrived and brought clothing and other supplies from Richmond. He has enough blankets to stay warm. Discusses food. Talks about the composition of the company and its leaders. He is "glad that the negroes have been dispersed of advantageously." Discusses the army's near future. Asks for a pair of winter boots. Hutson was a Corporal, 1st South Carolina Infantry, during the Civil War. Sarah was his mother. Written shortly before the Battle of Fredericksburg.
Citation Guidelines for Online Resources
- Copyright Notice
- The copyright law of the United States (title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specific conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be “used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research.” If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of “fair use,” that user may be liable for copyright infringement. This institution reserves the right to refuse to accept a copying order if, in its judgment, fulfillment of the order would involve violation of copyright law.