7 pages, 4 3/8 x 7, in ink, written by Benjamin Wright, to his wife.

Camp 10th C.[onn] V.[ols], St. Augustine, Fla., Nov. 21st, 1863

My Dear Abbie,

Another week has just about gone now. Very fast they come and go. Nearly two months have gone since we entered on our last year. How very quickly they have gone. At this rate almost before we know it our time will be gone. On that our lives may be spared to see that happy day to live to return home. The height of my ambition would then be reached and I could settle down in...  

Written by soldier who died in 1863!

Plus a letter written by his wife to him!

4 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by Joel Winslow.

East New York, Nov. 13th, 1862

Dear Kate,

I received your letter last night and was glad to hear that you was well. I have been looking for a letter for a week. It is quite sickly here in the regiment. The hospital is full and there is a good many sick that can't get in to the hospital. They have got the measles in both regiments. There is one sick in our barracks now...  

Written by soldier who died in 1863!

Captain accidentally shot a soldier in the head and killed him!

4 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by Joel Winslow.

East New York, Nov. 25th, 1862

Dearest Katey,

I received your letter last night and them mittens and was very glad to get them and also the money. You need not have sent that money. I could have got along without it but I will keep it as I want some things. I expect to get some on that note when George comes down again, and I will send it home....  

Written by soldier who died in 1863!

2 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by Joel Winslow.

Augusta, Sept. 17th, 1862

Dear Kate,

I now sit down to write you a few lines to let you know how well [I] get along. We got up here about two o'clock Monday and got our bed sack and blankets the same day. We have got a good place where we stop. We sleep in bunks the same as they have aboard a vessel. We have not done anything since we came here except to drill a little this forenoon. We have easy times at present. There is...  

Written by soldier who died in 1863!

3 1/2 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by Joel Winslow.

Augusta, Sept. 21, 1862

Dear Kate,

I now sit down to write you a few lines to let you know that I am well and hope that this will find you all the same. We have just come in from the field where we had a sermon preached to the whole regiment. We was on parade yesterday to receive our colonel. We go into the 21st Regiment, Colonel Johnston. We drill four hours a day. The roll is called at six in the morning, and six at...  

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4 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by Joel Winslow.

Camp Banks, Baton Rouge, La., March 4th, 1863

Dearest Katie,

I thought I would write you a few lines today to let you know how we get along. I have not been very well for the last week. I have had the dysentery but am getting better now. There is quite a number sick in our company. We have lost 2 men since we came out here. Our orderly sergeant was taken sick coming out and was left at New Orleans where he died. He belongs...  

3 1/2 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by John Lobdill. Comes with cover addressed to Mr. Wm. Hevener, Hawkinsville, Oneida Co., N.Y.

Camp Daggett, Nov. 10th, 1862

Mr. Wm. Hevener & Family,

Again do I take the liberty of writing to you in answer to yours of the 6 which Charles received this evening. He wished me to answer it right off and let you know that he is better. He got the fever broke up before it got thoroughly settled so it will not take him a great while to recruit up again. He looked a great deal better and says...  

2 1/2 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by Henry C. Ridgway, to his sister. Comes with cover addessed to Miss Maggie Ridgway, No. 214 North 2nd St., Philadelphia, Pa., with C.D.S., Washington, D.C., Mar. 12, and 3 cents rose George Washington postage stamp.

Camp in the Field, Mch. 10/65

Dear Sister,

The weather being unfavorable and nothing to do I thought I would write to my Dear Sister Maggie to inform you that I am well and in bully spirits. The report just came here that Sheridan's Army is within 3 miles of Lynchburg,...  

3 2/3 pages, 5 x 6 1/4, in ink, written by Henry C. Ridgway, to his brother. Comes with cover addessed to Mr. Walter S. Ridgway, No. 214 North 2nd St., Philadelphia, Pa., with C.D.S., Old Point Comfort, Va., Mar. 8, and 3 cents rose George Washington postage stamp.

Camp in the field, Mch. 1st/65

Dear Brother,

Your long letter to me was handed me this morning dated Feby. 23/65 and you stated you and all the family were well. I was glad to hear that Charley received my long letter. You also stated that the draft was to...  

3 1/2 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by Samuel L. Pratt, to his wife. Comes with cover addressed to Mrs. Sarah L. Pratt, North Abington, Mass., with C.D.S., New Orleans, La., Jun. 17/64, and 3 cents George Washington postage stamp.

Signal Camp, New Orleans, June 15th/64

Dear Wife,

I received yours of 22nd of May on the 13th and it seems that you get a letter once in awhile. I think that you take more time to write your letters than I do for it took 4 days for you to write the last one I received. You will see by the...  

5 x 8, in pencil, written by Henry C. Ridgway, to his brother. Comes with cover addessed to Mr. Charles W. Ridgway, No. 214 North 2nd St., Philadelphia, with C.D.S., Old Point Comfort, Va., Feb. 3, with 3 cents rose George Washington postage stamp.

Camp in the field, Feby. 1st/65

Dear Brother,

Your much loved letter to me was duly received and enclosed I found a Doctor's certificate. Up to date nothing or no signs of a court martial. I am in good health and I hope you and all the family are the same. I am on camp guard...  

4 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, on a full color patriotic letter sheet with vignette of soldier holding a musket and American flag.

Berlin, Nov. 18th/61

Dear Father and Mother,

I have been looking for a letter from you for several days back but none came. I wrote to you for boots &c. If you have not sent them, I want you to get me a pair of pants made out of that gray cloth made over that pattern that my red ones was made over. Want you to make them as soon as you can for I am in need of them. I wrote to Martha to make me two flannel...