11 November 1861

Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lile Miller

Written at Camp Pierpont to his wife. Discusses tearing down houses for the wood: "...at first Dear Lile i was opposed to destroying Property But now i think i perfectly Right, let the traitors feel to the full extent the horrors of the war they have Brought on themselves..." Mentions Brigadier General [John F.] Reynolds, noting that Reynolds stopped to talk to him the previous day while Miller was on guard duty.

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14 November 1861

Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lile Miller

Written at Camp Pierpont to his wife. Writes, "Dear Wife it makes me so angry when i think of the way we have been humbuged and treated since we have been in the service that some times i think if the Rebels were coming into Gettys... i would barely help to keep them out..." (ellipses were included by the author).

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17 November 1861

Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lile Miller

Written at Camp Pierpont to his wife. Describes entering a civilian house where the inhabitants professed to be loyal to the Union.

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21 November 1861

Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lile Miller

Written at Camp Pierpont to his wife. Notes, "...yesterday was the grand Review and such a sight was never seen on this continent it is impossible for me to tell you how may [sic] soldiers was there but i suppose from 50 to 70 thousand they were Reviewed By Genl McClellan he is a noble looking man..." Comments on how he misses his wife and young son.

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26 November 1861

Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864

Autograph letter

Title: to Lile Miller [incomplete]

Written at Camp Pierpont to his wife. Comments on the death of Jesse Shank, a man in his company. Notes that Shank was an Oddfellow. Discusses camp life.

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November 1861

Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lile Miller

Written at Camp Pierpont to his wife. Reports being called to arms the previous day because their cavalry pickets were attacked by Confederates. Discusses putting a fire place in his tent and sending his wife a photograph of himself. Writes, "...i do not think we will stay here long, it is Reported here that we will have to quarter in Leesburg But it will have to be taken from the Rebels first..."

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December 8, 1861

Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lile Miller

Written at Camp Pierpont to his wife. Fears he will not be able to return home until spring, and longs to see his wife and son. Writes, "...perhaps this delay may save the life of many a soldier for we have seen the effects of attacking the Rebels half prepared at Bull Run and Balls Bluff... our Brigade never moves unless there is a strong force..."

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circa December 1861

Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Charley Miller

Possibly written to his young son in December 1861 from Camp Pierpont, Virginia (date and location inferred from content). Expresses sympathy for Charley, who has a sore on his side.

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December 25, 1861

Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lile Miller

Written at Camp Pierpont to his wife. Complains that his wife does not write to him enough. Notes that the doctor gave his company a dose of medicine after they stood picket in the rain. Discusses the Christmas holiday in camp: a dress parade took place, the brass band played, and the soldiers had only bread and coffee to eat.

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January 14, 1862

Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lile Miller

Written at Camp Pierpont to his wife. Date inferred from content; this letter is labeled 14 January 1861. Discusses the possibility that men from his regiment might be sent out to recruit. Writes, "...i do get so downhearted and wretched some times..."

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5 January 1862

Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lile Miller

Written at Camp Pierpont to his wife. Discusses the difficulty of obtaining wood and the possibility of acquiring a small sheet iron stove. Complains that soldiers from New York receive more press than the Pennsylvania troops: "...i see your Sunday New Yorkers or Porter guards as they are called there wants a Barracks to live in if they come here we will give them a Barracks and some thing else to do than Box and Play Ball in the dimond [sic], not that i Blame the Soldiers themselves, But every Paper and letter that comes from there is filled with their doings [while] the men from there who…

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9 January 1862

Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lile Miller

Written at Camp Pierpont to his wife. Complains about the Porter Guards from New York, who are stationed at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, noting that they boast of "Being nearly all Rich and leaving home through Principal," although "the Pennsylvanians are as Patriotick as ever New York was..."

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January 17, 1862

Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lile Miller

Written from camp near White Oak Church. Writes, "...when the Inquirer came yesterday it put a damper on the Boys to see that the Secretary of War had refused to let the Reserves go Back to the State... i never felt like deserting Before But if ever i get Back across the Potomac again i shall studdy awhile Before i Return..."

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January 21, 1862

Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lile Miller

Written from Camp Pierpont to his wife. Complains that one of his fellow soldiers is spreading falsehoods, through letters, about others in the company.

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January 26, 1862

Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lile Miller

Written at Camp Pierpont to his wife. Discusses camp life. Writes, "Oh i hope and pray to god it may not Be much longer till i can press you to my heart... and yet dear Lile to Protect this happy Land of ours i would fight those over Bearing Rebels till the last drop of Blood was out of my veins..."

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9 February 1862

Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lile Miller

Written at Camp Pierpont to his wife. Complains about the rain and that Lile, his wife, does not write to him enough. Writes, "...the government has opened a Recruiting office at McCalls head quarters for the Regular Army any volunteer enlisting there for five years is to get one hundred dollars Bounty... and a furlough for sixty days and i have heard they are enlisting verry fast..."

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February 13, 1862

Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lile Miller

Written at Camp Pierpont to his wife. Writes, "...the Boys are Jubilant of our late victories at Roanoke island and in the [tennessee] River, But i suppose ere you Receive this you will have heard of the taking of Roanoke island By our forces they killed and wounded about one thousand of the Rebels, and took about two thousand Prisoners, while on the tennessee River our fleet has gone up as far as it was navigable, and destroyed all their Breast works vessels... unless our troops meet with a terrible defeat some where it will not Be many months till the Confederate government will Be no more…

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22 April 1864

Hanna, fl. 1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to her cousin Mag

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7 May 1864

Williams, Edward, fl. 1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Written from "Camp Cleaveland," likely Camp Cleveland in Cleveland, Ohio.

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9 January 1865

Josephine, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lill

Contains two letters. The first is addressed to Lill from Josephine, and written from Tontogany, Ohio on 9 January 1865. The second is undated and written to Edward Williams from James Raymond.

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January 22, 1865

Frank, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his cousins

Author's first name is Frank, and last name is illegible, but may be Morny.

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circa 1862-1865

Autograph letter

Title: Travels of the 123rd Regt. [U.S.A.] [incomplete]

Outlines the travels of the 123rd Ohio Regiment in verse form. On verso is stationery for the Amsden, Williams & Co., Monroeville.

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circa 1862-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Margarett [incomplete]

Dated only as 13 February.

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circa 1862-1865

Williams, George, fl. 1862-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his sister Maria

Dated only as 26 January. Written from Camp Holly, New Market Heights, Virginia (located in present-day Henrico County, Virginia, outside of Richmond). Written on U.S. Christian Commission stationery.

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circa 1862-1865

Mag, fl. 1862-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to her sister

Dated only as 20 November. Written from Orange, New Jersey, likely close to Newark.

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