117TH NEW YORK INFANTRY LETTER

Written by soldier who died in 1864!

3 pages, in ink, written by Charles Hevener, to his father and mother.

Camp Curtis, Va., 117 Reg., Aug. 20, 1864

Dear Father and Mother,

I take this opportunity to write you a few lines to let you know that I am well and hope these few lines will find you enjoying the same good health. John Griffiths came here to see Ben this afternoon. He has got his discharge and he feels pretty well. Ben ain't very well at present. I saw a letter that Ben got this morning. His father...  

10TH CONNECTICUT INFANTRY LETTER

8 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by Benjamin Wright, to his wife Abbie. Comes with cover addressed to Mrs. Benjamin Wright, Greenwich, Connecticut, C.D.S., St. Augustine, FLO., Mar. 31, stamp cut off, torn at edges.

Head Quarters U.S. Forces, St. Augustine, Fla., March 28, 1864

My Dear Abbie,

I have written nothing since Friday night. It is now Monday after dinner, and I don't know as I have any thing to write now. News is very scarce at present. Since the boats got away Saturday morning every thing has been quiet. Mr....  

10TH CONNECTICUT INFANTRY LETTER

12 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by Benjamin Wright to his wife Abbie.

Head Quarters U.S. Forces, St. Augustine, Florida, March 21, 1864

My Dear Abbie,

I have been pretty busy today. After Guard Mounting I inspected the horses belonging to [the] Government at this Post. We have had a pretty hard lot of horses. If the 24th [Mass] had staid much longer, the horses would have all died. They were very hard on them. Since they left the horses have been improving. They are doing well now. They have good care and attention. The...  

1ST RHODE ISLAND CAVALRY LETTER

3 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by John W. Warner, to his parents.

Camp Stoneman, near Washington, Sept. 28th, [1863]

Dear Parents,

I received your very welcome letter at Annapolis last Thursday and will now answer it. All the cavalry left Annapolis Thursday P.M. and came to Washington by boats. All the paroled prisoners are exchanged up to Sept. 1st and the cavalry is sent to this camp to be equipped & mounted before being sent to the army. I have written to Robt. & John Shapley and suppose they will leave home before...  

1ST MICHIGAN INFANTRY LETTER

4 pages, 8 x 10, in ink, written by William Byrns to his future wife. Comes with cover addressed to Miss Florence Clark, Care Geo. J. Adams, Ceres, Allegany Co., New York, with 3 cents George Washington [#65] postage stamp, tied on with an Old Point Comfort, Va. C.D.S.

Camp Hamilton, Old Point Comfort, Va., March 25, 1862

Dear Florence,

This A.M. as I have a few moments leisure time I will write you. Sunday, P.M., after writing a letter to my Mother, as soon as I had finished yours, I started for our Regimental Post...  

117TH NEW YORK INFANTRY LETTER

4 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, on imprinted regimental letter sheet, written by John Lobdill.

Headquarters 117th Regt. N.Y.S. Vols., Col. Wm. R. Pease, Act'g Brig. Gen., Camp Morris, Near Fort Ripley, March 11, 1863

Kind and respected friends,

As Charles isn't very well at present, and wishing to have your letter answered without delay, I thought I would write a few lines to you if it will not be intruding. He has been complaining with a sore throat for three or four days and not feeling very well, but thinks it nothing more...  

10TH CONNECTICUT INFANTRY LETTER

Battles of Kinston and Whitehall, North Carolina!

23 pages, 5 x 8, in bold pencil, written by Benjamin Wright to his wife Abbie.

Newbern, N.C., Dec. 24, 1862, 9 P.M.

Dear Abbie,

The mail has come up but I received none. I think it was a very small one. There was not twenty letters for the company. Those that came were mailed the 19th, 20th, only two days later than my last. I finished the last just after the battle of Kinston. After we drove the Rebels across the bridge they went just outside of the city on...  

10TH CONNECTICUT INFANTRY LETTER

8 pages, 5 x 8, in pencil, written by Benjamin Wright, to his wife Abbie.

At Sea on Transport Haze, Oct. 19th, 1862, 5 o'clock, P.M.

Dear Abbie,

One day on the water, one day's sail from home and those I love. While in New York yesterday, I was so very busy I hardly had time to think of home. I was in hopes I should get time to go and see Lizzie but I did not get time. My time was mostly taken up in getting things ready to send off the men. I called to see Eddy and he went to the boat with us and saw us off. We left...  

117TH NEW YORK INFANTRY LETTER

3 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by John Lobdill.

Camp 117th N.Y. Vols. in the field, Sept. 26/64

Respected Friends,

Charles not feeling well today wished me to write a few lines for him to you. Chas. had a touch of the fever and ague but is some better now and thinks he will come around all right soon. Chas. and I are tenting together and I think I can cure him up all right in a day or two if they do not march us off again too soon. Our Corps was relieved the 24th from in front of Petersburg and we marched back a few...  

1ST MICHIGAN INFANTRY LETTER

4 pages, 7 3/4 x 10, in ink, written by Lieutenant William Byrns to his future wife. Comes with cover addressed to Miss Florence Clark, Care of Geo. J. Adams, Ceres, Allegany Co., New York, with 3 cents George Washington #65 postage stamp, tied on with Old Point Comfort, Va., Mar. 23, CDS. Docket on the reverse, Will Byrns, No. 46, O.[ld] P.[oint] C.[omfort], Va., March 23rd, 1862.

Camp Hamilton, Fortress Monroe, Va., March 23, 1862

Dear Florence,

Perhaps I should have written again before this, but I have not heard from...  

117TH NEW YORK INFANTRY LETTER

Written by soldier who died in 1864!

3 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by Charles Hevener.

117 Regt. Camp Curtis, Va., near Petersburg, July the 2, 1864

Dear Father,

I take this opportunity to write you a few lines to let you know that I am well and hope these few lines will find you the same. We had orders read on dress parade last night about letting the soldiers reenlist. I think that I had better reenlist if they will take me for a teamster. If not I shan't enlist. I won't enlist to carry a gun for Uncle...  

18TH CONNECTICUT INFANTRY LETTER

Written by prison guard at Fort McHenry, Maryland

3 1/4 pages, 5 x 8, in bold pencil written by Rufus P. Munyan, 18th Connecticut Infantry. Comes with cover addressed to David Munyan, Webster, Mass., with 3 cents rose George Washington #65 postage stamp tied on with a blue Baltimore, Md., C.D.S.

Fort McHenry, Md., Sept. 1st, 1862

May the Devil take the virgin soil of the South if it is all like this around here. It rains and it is just like mortar. Every step you take you sink in to the mud up to the ankles and...