to Sarah McLeod Hutson

Hutson, Charles J., 1842-1902 to Sarah McLeod Hutson

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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.

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