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- GLC#
- GLC04558.015-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 22 May 1862
- Author/Creator
- Tillotson, George W., 1830-1918
- Title
- To his wife
- Place Written
- Roanoke Island, North Carolina
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 20 cm, Width: 12 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Pay day. Describing feelings in battle: "If you want to know just how I felt when I went into battle it would be hard telling exactly but in the first place I felt most d---d tired other ways I felt well enough, wasn't at all afraid [of] the idea that we could be whiped by any number of rebels did not come into my head at all even after the Zouaves were driven back among us and I heard some of them say that they were all cut up and that the day was lost, I couldn't see the point." Almost struck by bullet in head. "I must say that I felt some 'savage'..."
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