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to Estelle Spero

Diamond informs Estelle that he feels surprisingly calm about the prospect of going into battle: "there is only the quietness of heart & body".

GLC09120.332

to Estelle Spero

Diamond instructs Estelle to be good, happy and to keep her level head.

GLC09120.333

to Estelle Spero

Diamond informs Estelle that they are "bon-voyaging again."

GLC09120.334

to Estelle Spero

Diamond asks Estelle to send V-mails in addition to her lengthy air mail letters, as he receives his parents' fairly regularly.

GLC09120.335

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that the "situation continues as usual", with everything "wet, damp, moldy" from the rain.

GLC09120.336

to Estelle Spero

Diamond informs Estelle that "the hunger for home grows increasingly great".

GLC09120.337

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that "there is little if anything new to report".

GLC09120.338

to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes his "politics" to Estelle.

GLC09120.339

to Estelle Spero

Diamond informs Estelle that the lack of mail has been caused by his being involved in combat, "front line stuff". He writes that he has "seen 'war' minus hollywood's beauty."

photocopy

GLC09120.340

to Estelle Spero

Diamond praises his men in their initiation into battle. He complains about the difficulty of seeing clearly on the front line, and also writes that he would give up a year's salary for a decent night's sleep.

GLC09120.341

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that he is "used to it by now. [His] nerves have settled down to their usual steady jangle."

GLC09120.342

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that he wants "home - out of this mess…"

GLC09120.343

to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes the telephone operator, Kallor, as a Jewish dress cutter from New York who is in Sidney's father's union.

GLC09120.344

to Estelle Spero

Diamond comments that he has never been ill during his army career.

GLC09120.345

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes Estelle a "short note in field on message & overlay paper."

GLC09120.346

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that their "apartment will have a double apron barbed wire fence about it covered by a slew of machine guns to keep all relatives away…"

GLC09120.347

to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes the process of selecting new observation posts.

GLC09120.348

Sketch of Stanley Diamond as a boy

Diamond writes that the mouth is "too feminine".

GLC09120.349

to Estelle Spero

Diamond again describes the process of selecting observational posts in trees.

GLC09120.350

to Estelle Spero

Diamond asks Estelle to send him a book once a month to entertain him.

GLC09120.351

to Estelle Spero

Diamond apologizes for having neglected Estelle on St. Valentines day.

GLC09120.352

to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes using the typewriter in terms of a battle offensive.

GLC09120.353

to Estelle Spero

Diamond informs Estelle that he intends to attend his battalion motion picture show that evening.

GLC09120.354

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that he imagines embracing Estelle.

GLC09120.355

to Estelle Spero

Diamond reports that that evening they had gone to the cinema to see the film, "The Affairs of Martha

GLC09120.356

to Estelle Spero

Diamond discusses the "present conflict" between labor and industry.

GLC09120.357

to Estelle Spero

Diamond talks of the constant rain, his desire for good cuisine and a recent nightmare about an air raid.

GLC09120.358

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that his outfit boasts "a washing machine, ice box, and recently a generator & electric lights

GLC09120.359

to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes his day as "quiet, dull, routine rot!"

GLC09120.360

to Estelle Spero

Diamond tells Estelle that he no longer has "that burning hatred of the jungle and its mysteries", commenting on how peculiar it is that "a man can adapt himself to this way of living".

GLC09120.361

to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes writing to the wife of one of his men about his death, an experience that made him realize the "ridiculous emptiness of words".

GLC09120.362

to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes the interior of his tent. He writes that it is "grand to be alive and well".

GLC09120.363

to Estelle Spero

Diamond tells Estelle that her "guy is getting along satisfactorily - nothing to write about of any consequence

GLC09120.364

to Estelle Spero

Diamond informs Estelle that his vocabulary is too limited to express how grateful he is for everything that she has done for him.

GLC09120.365

to Estelle Spero

Diamond discusses his "bleak & uncertain" future.

GLC09120.366

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that the day had been spent climbing steep hills to O.P.s (observation posts), and describes the view from them. Sidney gives Estelle some instructions pertaining to the "money order" enclosed and requests some garden seeds...

GLC09120.367

to Estelle Spero

Diamond informs Estelle that she has become an integral part of his daily routine.

GLC09120.368

to Estelle Spero

Diamond implies that since it was a leap year, Estelle should have proposed to him.

GLC09120.369

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that they are working on maps and overlap. He comments that he doesn't feel "poetic, romantic, jocular".

GLC09120.370

to Estelle Spero

Diamond mentions that "nearly everyone around has discovered someone they knew from back home

GLC09120.371

to Estelle Spero

Diamond thanks Estelle for the New Yorker that she had subscribed to for him, and then proceeds to "rampage through the 'mag'

GLC09120.372

to Estelle Spero

Diamond complains that they have termites in the camp.

GLC09120.373

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that he is recovering from a 96 hour stretch without sleep: "I needed your shoulder badly".

GLC09120.374

to Estelle Spero

Diamond wonders "how these Nips can keep getting literally slaughtered." He comments that this is one period that he doesn't want to share with anyone: "I'm spending the rest of my life forgetting it."

GLC09120.375

to Estelle Spero

Diamond apologizes for the brevity of his notes, explaining that he doesn't have the time, place or imagination to write more. He promises to "come out of this mess."

GLC09120.376

to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes a reconnaissance trip that all of the officers had gone on that afternoon.

GLC09120.377

to Estelle Spero

Diamond comments on how sad it is "that man must come to destroy, scar, and burn."

GLC09120.378

to Estelle Spero

Diamond compares his current situation to attempting to descend an upwards-bound escalator: "One steps down only to be brought back to the starting point."

GLC09120.379

to Estelle Spero

Diamond states that he seldom writes when in the field, primarily "because there is nothing of consequence to relate."

GLC09120.380

to Estelle Spero

Diamond informs Estelle that he is writing in a hole, with a small lantern providing light.

GLC09120.381

to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes the closest to real fighting that he has experienced.

GLC09120.382

to Estelle Spero

Diamond comments on how sad it is "that man must come to destroy, scar, and burn."

GLC09120.383

to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes bumping into a girl from Coney Island.

GLC09120.384

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that the oriental inscription on the ring that Estelle bought for him causes him embarrassment, as people assume that he "Got that off a Jap".

GLC09120.385

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that he has heard that Passover is the following day, but that his "holidays are celebrated by destroying the enemy." Sidney describes firing on some "Japs".

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that he thinks that he is at his zenith.

GLC09120.387

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that he is using the lantern that Estelle sent him for the first time, and consoles her for the confusion that she is experiencing concerning her job.

GLC09120.388

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes on his birthday that he feels "one hundred years older." He recommends that she reads "The Robe" by Lloyd C. Douglas.

GLC09120.389

to Estelle Spero

Diamond informs Estelle that he has gone from platoon leader to Company Executive Officer. He also mentions that they are now allowed to divulge that they are somewhere in the Solomon Islands

GLC09120.390

to Estelle Spero

Diamond complains about being encouraged by the Army to read the periodical "In Fact", as it offends his liberal sensibilities.

GLC09120.391

to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that he worries about the administrative side of his job.

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to Estelle Spero

Diamond writes that the "days are completely devoid of any activity." He mentions that a rotation policy is being started, whereby men who have spent between eighteen months and two years in overseas service will get an opportunity to go home....

GLC09120.393

to Estelle Spero

Diamond describes the contents of a package that his parents have sent him. He recalls the day that he proposed to Estelle, and comments that nearly a year has passed since that date, May 18th. He then discusses how important Estelle is to him in...

GLC09120.394

[The War Records office informs an unknown recipient that his/her address for the "Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies" has been changed to Olneyville, Rhode Island]

GLC02750.323

[photograph of Edward Gardiner]

Edward Gardiner. Son of George Washington Gardiner. Relative of Joseph Webb,

GLC02750.332

to Eliakim P. Scammon

re number of troops needed for Lewisburg raid

GLC02414.260

to Eliakim P. Scammon

Requests extension of his leave in Charleston. reply by Scammon on verso: "Yes-but come in time for report of 20th. Feel easy however while you are there & remember the men."

GLC02414.261

to James L. Botsford

requests extension of his leave in
Charleston. reply by Scammon on verso: "Yes-but come in time for report of 20th. Feel easy however while you are there & remember the men."

GLC02414.262

to Eliakim P. Scammon

"Rebels have possession of Point Pleasant have no particulars"

GLC02414.263

to unknown

GLC02414.264

to Eliakim P. Scammon

Dated March 13, no year.

GLC02414.265

to James L. Botsford

GLC02414.266

to Eliakim P. Scammon

"It is my opinion utterly impossible for the Enemy to transport and subsist a force sufficient large to attack this place[Fayette] until after the first of May perhaps later and I am convinced that they are perfectly aware of this fact"

GLC02414.267

to James L. Botsford

"…the nearest enemy to me is Dunn at Frankfort but I know I cannot get to him for water & I know he cannot get to me…" With [autograph signed note?] reply by Scammon on verso: "You may return to Piatt if you are satisfied that there is no immediate...

GLC02414.268

to James L. Botsford

"Citizens brought word…severe fighting commenced at 3 oclock Wednesday 10 miles east or the north east of Lewisburg supposed by informant near Frankfort heavy commanding kept up until ten oclock at night & resumed next morning…our forces drove them...

GLC02414.269

to Eliakim P. Scammon

GLC02414.270

to Eliakim P. Scammon

"…the Rebels have…five Regiments of cavalry and three Regiments Infty…Genl WL Jackson is reported in command and that Imboden is to join him…."

GLC02414.271

to Eliakim P. Scammon

GLC02414.272

to unknown

"(Conclusion of Cipher)…object of your expedition you will return to Charleston and report by telegraph - B.F. Kelley Brig. Gen. Comdg" Docket notes "Genl. Kelley order to move on Lewisburg"

GLC02414.273

to Eliakim P. Scammon

"I have heard nothing of the Enemy being in this vicinity I think there is no danger here now"

GLC02414.274

to unknown

GLC02414.275

to James L. Botsford

GLC02414.276

to Sergeant Kellogg

GLC02414.277

to Eliakim P. Scammon

GLC02414.278

to James L. Botsford

GLC02414.279

to James L. Botsford

"Wallace is just in from Wyoming & reports no enemy in force in Wyoming…."

GLC02414.280

to James L. Botsford

"Last night at Dark Major McMahn with 20 out of each of seven Companies crossed the river by steamer …they expect to meet Capt Walker at Daylight this morning then Scout both ways…" Dated Mch 13 186

GLC02414.281

to Eliakim P. Scammon

"…I know there is no enemy on my right worth marching for sixty miles for the last twenty (20) of that we will be bushwhacked then for the next thirty (3) it will be hot…." Dated Apl 1860

GLC02414.282

to Eliakim P. Scammon

"Just learned that we have driven Rebels away…"

GLC02414.283

[List of forms received from Ethan A. Jenks, Rhode Island deputy tax collector]

written on IRS stationery

GLC02750.307

to Ethan A. Jenks

Hutchinson, district tax collector, assures Jenks that the change in the force (possibly referring to change within the division office) in Providence, Rhode Island, was made at Hutchinson's suggestion. Written on IRS stationery.

GLC02750.308

[Paine & Colwell release all debts owed to them]

Signed and sealed by individuals acknowledging that their debt is released by Paine & Colwell.

GLC02750.315

to Mr. Parson and Bugbee

Marked as a copy. Jenks, assignee for the co-partnership of Paine & Colwell, informs Parson, Bugbee, [& Co.?] that their note of 22 May (not included) was the first information he received regarding their claim against Paine & Colwell.

GLC02750.316

to Ethan A. Jenks

Inquire whether Jenks, assignee of Paine & Colwell, is ready to pay a dividend on the notes Parson Bugbee [& Co.?] hold against the Paine & Colwell.

GLC02750.317

[Acknowledgement of receipt of funds paid by Ethan A. Jenks, assignee of Paine & Colwell]

Signed and sealed by Waldron, Wightman & Co.

GLC02750.318

[Writ of Attachment]

Tourtellot, tax collector, accuses Jordan of failing to fulfill a promise. Atwood signs as sheriff. [Maury?] signs as notary public. Docketed by Jordan and his attorneys.

GLC02750.319

[Writ of Attachment]

Walker accuses Horace Phillips of failing to fulfill a promise. Atwood signs as sheriff. Phillips signs as notary public. Docketed by Phillips and his attorneys.

GLC02750.320

[death announcement of General Robert B. Potter]

The President of the Society of the Burnside Expedition and of the Ninth Army Corps (Hartranft) is called upon to announce the loss of one of its most distinguished members, General Robert B. Potter

GLC02750.321

[indenture of lease]

Incomplete. Asa Tourtellot sells a tract of land to Charles, Mary, and Abby Francis Tourtellot.

GLC02750.322

[indenture of lease]

The Tourtellots, Jenks, Wilder, and Paine lease a tract of land to Mark Tordoff.

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