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- GLC#
- GLC03523.14.03-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 9 November 1862
- Author/Creator
- Damuth, Dolphus, fl. 1839-1913
- Title
- to John Damuth
- Place Written
- Camp Gill, Mississippi
- Pagination
- 4 p. : envelope Height: 12.5 cm, Width: 20.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Encloses his letter of 7 November, which he thought lost, and gives an account of the boat ride across the Mississippi River mentioned in the earlier letter. Tells stories of being on guard duty along the river. The men are nervous and there are repeated scares throughout the night - one soldier shoots at a man who runs away, and two other soldiers accidentally shoot at an ox. Mentions a foraging expedition led by their colonel from which "20 mules 8 horses 2 greys on a buggi 2 loads of corn 4 Sesech prisoners and lots of traps" were brought into camp. Damuth also goes on a foraging expedition to a deserted plantation where he and other soldiers steal livestock and corn. He describes a two hundred acre cotton field behind the house and encloses a piece of cotton for his family.
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