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January 23, 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his sister

Ink is severely faded and nearly illegible. Provides Fredericksburg, Virginia camp news.

GLC02082.24

February 14, 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his sister

Written from "Graces Church, near Fredericksburg." Comments on camp news and the prices of food & clothes. Also mentions exchanging papers with Yanks.

GLC02082.25

February 15, 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his sister

Continuation of GLC02082.25. Contains verses of "Bonnie Blue Flag."

GLC02082.26

February 21, 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his sister

Continuation of GLC02082.25-.26. Mentions sham battles with North Carolina troops, and includes verses of "Maryland."

GLC02082.27

15 March 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his sister

Reports that General Hooker ordered evacuation of Fredericksburg. Mentions pride in the spirit of Maryland.

GLC02082.28

17 March 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his sister

Written "Near the Rapperhanock [sic]." Includes camp news and a song called "Wait for the wagon."

GLC02082.29

8 April 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his sister

Discusses a cavalry fight with Stewart's and Fitz Hugh Lee's Cavalry at the Battle of Brandy Station.

GLC02082.30

9 April 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his sister

Continues GLC02082.30. Comments on a code for writing letters.

GLC02082.31

26 April 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary

Writes to his sister Mary about camp news and marching orders.

GLC02082.32

10 May 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary

Writes to his sister Mary about the Battle of Chancellorsville. Discusses those wounded and burned to death and mentions that Jackson has been shot.

GLC02082.33

27 May 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his sister

Discusses camp news and further battle news.

GLC02082.34

18 June 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary

Writes to his sister Mary about marching in Maryland. Also mentions the recapture of Winchester, Virginia by Longstreet.

GLC02082.35

21 June 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary

Continuation of GLC02082.37. Relates that "we will start to Pennsylvania." Declares that the "Yanks [are] now in hot water." Writes from "Antietam, near Hagerstown," in Maryland.

GLC02082.36

28 June 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his mother

Details his Pennsylvania experiences and "Alabamiams." Pages 3 and 4 written on separate scrap of paper.

GLC02082.37

19 July 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter

Title: to Mary

Describes the retreat through Maryland and Pennsylvania. Mentions the plentiful food. Describes the battle of Gettysburg & retreat. Written in pencil. May be missing conclusion. Author assumed based on letters of similar handwriting and content. See GLC02082.39.

GLC02082.38

6 August 1863-7 August 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Dorcus and to his sister

Letter on first page to cousin Dorcus, hoping that her sweetheart Robert has fared well in the late battle. Uses a numeric code. Letter of last three pages to his sister. Describes Gettysburg and their retreat: "Hear we have bin for several days, but we kno not what minut that we will have to march, we have marched solong so four til dont seam rite to stay in camps."

GLC02082.39

26 August 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sister

Reports good health for himself as well as the majority of the army. Writes briefly about the fight at Gettysburg because Mary had not received any letters from him.

GLC02082.41

12 September 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter

Title: to Mary

Describes his leisure time. Reports that they are being sent to Chattanooga. Complains about the complaining men of the South. Describes how Lee treated deserters: he shot them.

GLC02082.42

23 September 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his mother

Discusses shooting a deserter. Writes from a camp on the Rappahannock River.

GLC02082.43

1 November 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary

Written on long sheet of blue letter paper and cross-written on page 1. Discusses camp news, battles & skirmishing. Location listed as Camp 5th Alabama Regiment near Brandy Station, Virginia.

GLC02082.44

19 November 1863

Tate, Jeremiah M., fl. 1829-1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary

Discusses camp news, Yankee shelling picketts & skirmishing, and fortifying a camp. Written from Camp 5th Alabama near Monetons ford on the Rapperdan.

GLC02082.45