Smith, David V.M., 1823-1863 to Elizabeth Smith

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GLC04189.01
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Type
Letters
Date
1862/9/13
Author/Creator
Smith, David V.M., 1823-1863
Title
to Elizabeth Smith
Place Written
Ellicott's Mills, Maryland
Pagination
4 p. : envelope.
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

He has been sick since he joined the Army and now believes that his illness is due to bad food which "the devil can not eat." He describes how the regiment left New Jersey and traveled via railroad to Maryland. His regiment captured three of Stonewall Jackson's men, whom several Union cavalry men tried to kill while they were under guard.

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