Morey, Charles C., fl. 1830-1865 to mother

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GLC#
GLC03523.18.37-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
December 22, 1864
Author/Creator
Morey, Charles C., fl. 1830-1865
Title
to mother
Place Written
Petersburg, Virginia
Pagination
4 p. : Height: 20.2 cm, Width: 25.3 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Written from Camp near Petersburg, Virginia. Requests letters from home, "now that trains run into camp every evening." Reports that he is positioned in front of "Kershaw's (rebel) division," a division he has met several times before: in the valley, and at "Hannover town," near the Petersburg and Weldon Railroad. Mentions that trains carry supplies of everything "except vegetables which for some reason are not so plenty as when General Joseph Hooker was in command of the army, he, I think, fed the men better than any other commander we ever had, yet we get Plenty of bread, meat and coffee and sugar…"

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