Various Collection of 16 Union army soldiers' letters[Decimalized .01- .17]

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Content includes detailed descriptions of camp life, provisions, Battle of Rappahannock Station, etc. With four original transmittal covers.
Letter from Emerson Opdycke dated 30 April 1862: "We expect an immense fight down there [Corinth] which I think will end the big battles in the west. Had the rebels annihilated Grant's army, our condition would have been deplorable...Grant ought to be shot till dead!"

GLC#
GLC09182
Type
Header Record
Date
1863
Author/Creator
Various
Title
Collection of 16 Union army soldiers' letters[Decimalized .01- .17]
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
16 items
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War
Soldier's Letter
Union Forces
Military Camp
Military History
Battle
Union Soldier's Letter
Union General

Showing 17 of 17 records

Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to father

6 March 1863

Heap, Henry, fl. 1863

GLC09182.01
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to friend

30 April 1862

Opdycke, Emerson, fl. 1862-1863

GLC09182.02
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Henry Moffett

3 June

[illegible]

GLC09182.03
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to friend

22 June 1863

Breton, S.A., fl. 1863

GLC09182.04
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to friends

5 March 1863

W., O.S., fl. 1863

GLC09182.05
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Lo. Thomas

10 April 1863

Bailey, Lewis J.D., fl. 1863

GLC09182.06
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to brother

15 April 1863

[illegible]

GLC09182.07
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Margaret J.

15 May 1863

Hess, John W., fl. 1863

drawings of trees on first page of letter. Third and fourth pages contain a poem entitled "A Soldiers Farewell".

GLC09182.08
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Col. Mc[Kean]

10 June 1863

Hess, John W., fl. 1863

GLC09182.09
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Catherine

11 June 1863

Gemley, Bazel, fl. 1863

GLC09182.10
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to A. Leonard

25 July 1863

Storrs, E., fl. 1863

contains two letters both from E. Storrs. Second one dated 26 July 1863

GLC09182.11
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to friend

22 August 1863

Hall, C.A., fl. 1863

GLC09182.12
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Henry

28 August 1863

Opdycke, Emerson, fl. 1862-1863

GLC09182.13
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to father and mother

13 September 1863

Robinson, George, fl. 1829

stamp on last page, "Department of the Interior Pension Office APR 16 1877"

GLC09182.14
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Corin

8 September 1863

Luck, Alec, fl. 1863

GLC09182.15
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Bymers

18 November 1863

Cayden, F. L., fl. 1863

GLC09182.16
Collection Item
Envelope

to A. G. Hart

7 May 1862

GLC09182.17