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- GLC#
- GLC02232.06-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 27 May 1862
- Author/Creator
- Ward, Edward K., 1837-1864
- Title
- to his sister
- Place Written
- Corinth, Mississippi
- Pagination
- 3 p. : envelope Height: 25 cm, Width: 19 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Ward writes that they will be moving from Corinth soon, as the enemy is too close to the Tennessee River and Beauregard doesn't have room for strategic operations in Corinth. He complains of skirmishing with enemy pickets and being in the cold rain without any blankets, food, or sleep. Writes that every time the men go out on picket, they say goodbye to their friends. Reports that he expected to be promoted but still remains a non-commissioned officer. He fears that communication with his family in Memphis and Port Gibson will soon be cut off and would like photographs of his sisters. He wishes that he had a Negro to cook for him and states that Sam (his brother Samuel Marshall Ward) took the Negro his father had sent. He writes that he would rather give one hundred dollars a month than cook for himself. The letter was written two days before Beauregard's evacuation of Confederate troops from Corinth to Tupelo during the siege of Corinth.
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