to parents

Clapp, George, fl. 1839-1892 to parents

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GLC#
GLC09355.031-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
18 December 1863
Author/Creator
Clapp, George, fl. 1839-1892
Title
to parents
Place Written
Brandy Station, Virginia
Pagination
4 p. : envelope Height: 18 cm, Width: 11.4 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Has received all of their letters, but has been too busy to answer them while building winter quarters. Returned from picket to discover that the regiment had started to build log houses. It is "no small job." The shelter he is building is eight feet long and ten feet wide, but it is only four feet tall. They use the canvas from their tents as a roof, and the shelter has a fire pit in the middle. "It is expected that we will move from here every day." They might move to the other side of the Rappahannock for the winter. Wants them to send him the box soon with all of his specified contents. Wants the boots to be "custom made." They "need not send a box more than half as large as the one you sent last winter" to fit all of the things he wants. Sid is well and sends his love. Written at Camp Sedgwick.

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