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to Elizabeth Smith
1863/9/26
Smith, David V.M., 1823-1863
He is very ill. Written from Stanton General Hospital.
GLC04189.56
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
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
1862/9/13
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
1862/9/24
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
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