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to: "My dear Mother."

Writes "There is some talk of an exchange now in camp. I hope it is indeed so as prison life is anything but comfortable."

GLC02234.29

to: "My dearest Mother."

GLC02234.30

to: "My dearest Mother."

GLC02234.31

[clothing request]

Approved request for clothing and stationery to be sent by his mother.

GLC02234.32

to: "My dearest Father."

Writes "I trust that providence will soon end this war & I can return home honorably."

GLC02234.33

[Leave orders]

Special orders granting Hall 30 days leave.

GLC02234.34

to: "My dear Mother."

Written at Camp Hamilton

GLC02234.35

to: "My dear Mother."

GLC02234.36

to: Edward H. Hall.

GLC02234.37

to: Edward H. Hall

Invitation to Co. A, 1st Md. Cavalry reunion committee meeting.

GLC02234.38

Dear Sir

Circular letter. Reunion of Co. A, 1st Md. Cavalry.

GLC02234.39

to Belle Hall.

In a letter dated 19 May 1896 he recounted he was "exchanged & captured at Frederick Hall just before Lee's surrender."

GLC02234.40

to: Edward H. Hall.

GLC02234.41

to: William S. Hall.

GLC02234.42

Three calling cards + envelope:

St. Paul's Church, ; Joseph Cox, Monument St.; and Miss Louisa Gittings

GLC02234.43

Two cards with pressed flowers commemorating the baptisms of Thomas and William Hall; with envelope.

GLC02234.44

to Aaron Hobart

Discusses postal service. Mentions that because of Hobart's motion, the committee on post roads and offices must "inquire into the expediency of discontinuing wholly, or in part, the post rout" and establishing a new one. Gives the history of the...

GLC06313.04.097

to Aaron Hobart

Informs Hobart that he has sent the President his statement on his "Travels through the Seacourse of Massachusetts." Discusses fishing, shipping, and other seafaring matters.

GLC06313.04.100

to Aaron Hobart

Mentions he has received and will examine "the memorial of the Citizens of Charleston S.C. against the new Tariff." Shares his view on tariff in detail and claims that on some articles, such as bar iron, they "were raised too high."

GLC06313.04.101

to his sister

Describes time at Fort Massachusetts in the New Mexico Territory. Tells of joining the dragoons and their confrontations with Native Americans, including Navajos ("Navhoes") and the Utah nation.

GLC07231.01

to his sister

Tells news of life as dragoon, and boredom of time at Fort Massachusetts. Mentions the possibility of tracking Utah Indians to Salt Lake, possibility of returning east, of traveling to California. Discusses brother Lemuel's decision to become a...

GLC07231.02

to his sister, Lyddia M. Pierce

Misses family and reminiscences about childhood. Mentions news of cousin marrying Charles Whipple. Discusses possibility of coming home or of moving west. Written at Cantonment Burgwin.

GLC07231.03

to his brother Henry

Discusses conflict over slavery in Kansas, describing it as a "struggle against every species of oppression" (namely slavery). Foresees the probability of violence between 2000 "invaders" and 700 freemen. Laments the interception of mail from Kansas...

GLC07231.04

to his sister

Hopes his sister and brother are not "old liners," i.e. that they support his anti-slavery efforts in the "Kansas War." Mentions "Miss Brown" (likely a daughter of John Brown) in reference to his wish that more "yankey" girls would come to Kansas so...

GLC07231.05

Notebook

Discusses ceding of Florida from Great Britain to Spain in 1783; the Pinkney family coats of arms, the "Cession of Louisiana by France to the US" including the retroceding of Florida from France to Spain, legal cases and decisions.

GLC07602.01