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GLC04189.56
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Elizabeth Smith

1863/9/26

Smith, David V.M., 1823-1863

He is very ill. Written from Stanton General Hospital.

GLC04189.56
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to John Smith

1863/10/21

Starz, Edward L., fl. 1863

Informing him that private D. V. M. Smith died on October 10th, 1863. Also informs him where Smith was buried.

GLC04189.57
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Elizabeth Smith

1863/10/22

Smith, John M., fl. 1861-1863

He found her husband's body and has sent it home by express. He warns her not to open the coffin because the body is "in an advanced state of decomposition."

GLC04189.58
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Elizabeth Smith

1862/9/13

Smith, David V.M., 1823-1863

He has been sick since he joined the Army and now believes that his illness is due to bad food which "the devil can not eat." He describes how the regiment left New Jersey and traveled via railroad to Maryland. His regiment captured three of...

GLC04189.01
GLC04189.02
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Elizabeth Smith

1862/9/24

Smith, David V.M., 1823-1863

The Confederates camped twenty miles away in Frederick, Maryland. He has "Inflamatory Rheumatism" in his legs. The regiment's officers think that they will all be discharged by Christmas. Smith begs his wife to write him more frequently and adds...

GLC04189.02
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Elizabeth Smith

1862/9/26

Smith, David V.M., 1823-1863

His legs feel much better. He asks his wife to write him several times a week and he hopes to do the same. Written from Camp Johnson.

GLC04189.03
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Elizabeth Smith

1862/9/31

Smith, David V.M., 1823-1863

Smith hopes he will soon be fit for duty. He has not received some letters his wife sent and is dismayed that she will not rewrite the news that was in them. He mentions trains full of soldiers passing by and, responding to her questions about...

GLC04189.04
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Elizabeth Smith

1862/10/2

Smith, David V.M., 1823-1863

He received the letter she mailed yesterday (10/1/1862). He has only received one of four letters she sent. He gives her instructions concerning the "Post Office Matter" and how to file returns for stamps. In response to her complaint that he does...

GLC04189.05
GLC04189.06
Collection Item
Document signed

[Certificate of David V. M. Smith]

1862/10/4

Moore, W. Henry, fl. 1862

Certifying that David V. M. Smith is a member of Company D, 12th Regiment New Jersey Volunteers and entitled to the state bounty.

GLC04189.06
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to Elizabeth Smith

1862/10

Smith, David V.M., 1823-1863

Describes the capture of a hearse that carried arms for the Confederacy. He found two newspapers lying on the road and mailed them to Anna [his daughter]. He asks Elizabeth to send him a letter detailing all the "impossibilities" she must deal with...

GLC04189.07

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