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to mother

General Butler has been removed from command and some of his staff officers are going with him. His mother has finally received the letter and money he sent before Christmas. He had a mild case of dysentery.

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to mother

He thinks the rebellion will be over by the 4th of July. Reminisces about friends and playing in the snow. Leon must return to his regiment. Confederate peace commissioners came into Union lines while Confederate bands played patriotic union songs...

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to mother

The capture of Wilmington and Fort Anderson. Worries that Beauregard and Lee will join forces. Many southerners are deserting into union lines and even more are simply going home. He has been ordered to the Department of the South. Describes the...

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to mother

He has no news to relate. Is anxiously awaiting news about Sherman. The Richmond papers will not print anything about Sherman's march because they do not want to reveal any information the North might not know.

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to mother

Visiting acquaintances who have rented a plantation and planted a corn crop. He was surprised to learn that some of the plowhands were women. Walbridge has invested $1000.

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to mother

He is looking forward to the end of the war so he can find employment. He writes that he can give a family friend a job as a driver for $30 a month plus rations.

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to mother

He writes to announce his commission as a brevet major.

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to mother

The quartermaster is buying the arms of Confederates who have deserted. Walbridge advises his mother on financial affairs.

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to mother

Order to be the quartermaster of General Turner's division at Wilmington, N.C. His employees at Bermuda Hundred gave him a watch and a chair as a going away present. Written on board steamer "Transit."

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to mother

He is now Chief Quartermaster of the 10th Army Corps, which gives him the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Leon is also stationed at Wilmington.

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to Mrs. Walbridge

Writes to his mother that Union General William T. Sherman's army is in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he is also comfortably stationed. Reports that they left Faisson's depot on 10 April and marched four days to Raleigh. Recounts his duty during...

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to mother

Mr. Pratt has offered to help George and Walbridge start their own business in Chicago. Walbridge announces he will stay in the army for a few months.

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to mother

Quick note sent with a check for $100.

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[Lieutenant Daniel Waite Burdick]

Vignette bust portrait with small beard and mustache. Name inscribed on recto under photograph.

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[Lieutenant Lucian E. Carter]

Standing full portrait with painted camp scene backdrop, holding hat and sword. Name and rank inscribed on recto beneath photograph.

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[Lieutenant Silas Wright Frame]

Vignette bust portrait. Name and rank inscribed on recto of photograph, possibly Frame's signature.

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[Lieutenant Malcolm G. Cook]

Vignette bust portrait with beard and mustache. Identifying inscription on verso.

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[Lieutenant Philander B. Grant]

Vignette bust portrait with small beard. Identifying inscription on verso.

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[Lieutenant Wallace R. Hill]

Vignette bust portrait with small beard and mustache. Name and rank inscribed on recto below photograph.

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[Lieutenant Patrick H. Keenan]

Vignette bust portrait with beard. Name and rank inscribed on recto beneath photograph.

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[Lieutenant James A. Taylor]

Vignette bust portrait with beard and mustache.

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[Lieutenant Addison W. Wheelock]

Vignette bust portrait with beard and mustache. Name inscribed on recto beneath photograph. Name and rank inscribed on verso.

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[unknown Lieutenant in 10th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment]

Vignette bust portrait with beard.

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[unknown Lieutenant in 10th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment]

Vignette bust portrait with beard.

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[Lieutenant Eugene A. Chapman]

Vignette bust portrait with mustache. Name inscribed on recto beneath photograph.

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[Lieutenant Stephen W. Flower]

Vignette portrait with beard and mustache. Name inscribed on recto beneath photograph. Taken by Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries.

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[Assistant Surgeon Henry H. Fuller]

Fuller signed, "Most Respectfully, Henry H. Fuller, MD." Vignette bust portrait with mustache, in civilian clothes.

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[Lieutenant Franklin O. Sherman]

Standing full portrait with beard and mustache beside a flag. Holding sword and kepi hat with cross canon. Name inscribed on recto beneath photograph.

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[unknown Lieutenant in 10th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment]

Standing three-quarter portrait with beard and mustache, holding kepi hat and sword.

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General Orders No. 227.

General Rosecrans congratulates the Army of the Cumberland and lists its accomplishments.

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to Nancy E. Jones

He has kept an account of their movements and battles. He summarizes the hardships he has endured so far.

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to Nancy E. Jones

The mail has stopped. The Confederates are only a mile away and they can see them through a telescope. They have not attacked since 20 September, the Battle of Chickamauga. He describes Lookout Mountain.

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to Nancy E. Jones

They are so close to the Confederates that they can "talk to them" but neither side is allowed to shoot. Three companies of Confederates gave themselves up and more do every day.

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to Nancy E. Jones

He encourages her to go live with Brother Millis and to read often. If he had known what soldiering would be like, he wouldn't have thought any man could stand it.

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to Nancy E. Jones

He expects the railroad to be opened all the way soon. They moved from Johnston's division to Sheridan's and from the 20th army corps to the 4th. He will send Rosecrans' congratulatory General Orders No. 227 in his next letter.

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to Nancy E. Jones

His regiment is still under Colonel Buckner. They began with 965 men of which 584 remain, 130 of which are still in the regiment. He expects the regiments to be consolidated as they are too small to hold their position alone. His regiment is...

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to Nancy E. Jones

General Hooker is fighting the Confederates on the right wing. She should make him two shirts and send them and a needle and pins if possible. He encloses General Rosencrans' congratulatory Orders No. 227.

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to Nancy E. Jones

Severely limited rations and for six weeks and "roten hard bread with worms in it." With enclosed excerpts from The Christian Psalmist.

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to Nancy E. Jones

He is glad she and the children are staying with Brother Millis. Most of the men left to reinforce the right wing, which has been engaged in heavy fighting. They must stretch one meal over two days but are in good spirits.

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to Nancy E. Jones

"It is nothing to a soldier to here of the death of a friend or comrade for he has enough of such…that he cannot mourn for the dead." He describes the Battle of Chickamauga: "For two long days we fought the brave men of longstreets corps from...

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to Nancy E. Jones

General Thomas replaced General Rosecrans "on the account of Brag driving him back" to Chattanooga where Grant is now in command. He heard that Hooker defeated Bragg. They have not encountered Price since he left or Marmaduke since he attacked a...

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to Nancy E. Jones

The Confederates had an internal battle on October 28: "One brigad[e] of them was determined to quit them and ground arms and come to our lines and they was silenced by their trusty troops which terminated in three hours fight killing eight hundred...

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to Nancy E. Jones

The Confederates have been fighting internally since the Battle of Chickamauga; "I believe they will disband completely." Cornelius Hanvy has recovered. He requests cotton shirts to keep away the army lice. She may exchange the money he sends for...

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to Nancy E. Jones [incomplete]

They attacked two days ago and their right wing took Lookout Mountain while the left wing held its position. Yesterday the left wing drove the Confederates from Missionary Ridge, reaching Chickamauga creek this morning. They could not push them...

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to Nancy E. Jones [incomplete]

From her letter he believes that the Copperheads there "must be equally as Mean as those about Paris in Edger County."

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to Nancy E. Jones

His corps captured 30 cannon and 3,000 prisoners in the battle for Missionary Ridge. His division returned to Chattanooga and is headed now for Knoxville. Burnside has been successful.

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to Nancy E. Jones

They are running a grist mill and shipping meal and flour to Knoxville. The rest of the regiment is at Knoxville with the 22nd Illinois. Burnside drove the Confederates "from in front of him with heavy los[s] on the part of the rebles." Longstreet...

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to Nancy E. Jones

The mail has not been running since they left Chattanooga.

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The Soldier's Return.

Miniature pamphlet containing poem "The Nine Months Man." Published: Johnstons Print.

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to Nancy E. Jones

His regiment is running a mill and sending flour up to London. The army is weaker because of veterans going home but if the Confederates don't attack for three months "our armey will be strong enough to wipe them out." He'd hoped to come home as a...

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