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- GLC#
- GLC03603.273-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1 May 1864
- Author/Creator
- Coit, Charles M., 1838-1878
- Title
- to his family
- Place Written
- Yorktown, Virginia
- Pagination
- 2 p. :
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Writes that he has been very busy with drilling, parading and "his papers." Notes that General Brooks is in command of his regiment and that "it should have been General Burnham." Says that the regiment is keeping 4 days cooked rations ready in order to move quickly if they receive orders to march. Thanks his family for the stockings and postage stamps that they sent and says that he is going to try to purchase new shoes, a tin cup and tobacco from town.'
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