Letters

Date	Place
October 3 & 6, 1861	Chain Bridge/Camp Advance	"I went over to Middlebury & enlisted in the 5th Reg Vermont Volunteers Col. Smalley"
October 16, 1861	Camp Griffin	"I am to work in the cook tent now it is no fool of a job[;] cook and wash the dishes for one hundred men"
October 22, 1861	Camp Griffin	"we dont get our pay untill the first of next month when I do get it I will send it home"
November 10, 1861	Camp Griffin	"I drawed up the old gun and fired I see him drop and supposed I had killed him..."
November 23, 1861	Camp Griffin	"I some times wish I was at home where I could be sure of a good bed every night... "
November 29, 1861	Camp Griffin	"some of our men are building under ground houses they build them in this manner..."
December 2, 1861	Camp Griffin	"so father you may look out for the news of a gallus old fight pretty soon"
December 29, 1861	Camp Griffin	"I want to tell you something private"
January 6, 1862	Camp Griffin	"butter is 35 cents a pound and very poor at that the small papers of tobacco that you have to pay 3 cents for is 6 cents here"
January 21, 1862	Camp Griffin	"I cant get a stamp for love nor money it is not a possible thing"
February 1, 1862	Camp Griffin	"There aint a day passes but what 2 or 3 deserters from the Rebels army comes through our lines"
February 7, 1862	Camp Griffin	"there is plenty of Rot gut in our Regiment but God knows I will keep my promise to my mother..."
February 13, 1862	Camp Griffin	"I had a very narrow escape to day"
February 16, 1862	Camp Griffin	"I tell you Father it will be a blood fight and if I should happen to fall I should like to be carried home..."
February 21, 1862	Camp Griffin	"Three cheers for the Red white & blue. Death to all Traitors."
March 4, 1862	Camp Griffin	"By thunder I don't want to go home without having a good fight"
March 7, 1862	Camp Griffin	"General Brooks is as cross as thunder he swears worse than old hamelen ever thought of swearing"
March 20, 1862	Camp near Clouds Mills	"I was on the field of Bull Run the other day it was an awful looking place"
April 11, 1862	Yorktown, VA	"I have slept but 6 hours out of 48"
April 17, 1862	Yorktown, VA	"oh my God that was the awfelest sight that I ever saw in my life"
May 2, 1862	Camp Winfield Scott	"Papers seem to think that this war will be over in a couple of months"
May 22, 1862	Camp near the Chickahominy	"Father if I live through the battle of Richmond I shall be to home just as soon as that battle is over"
July 8, 1862	Camp near James River	"now Father dont fret your self for me"
July 17, 1862	Madison, Iowa	"I sit down this morning to write to you, not knowing whether you are in the land of the living or not."
Captain E.S. Stowell's Letter	Camp Griffin	"..the report is Bank's Div. is crossing the river."

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