Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864 to Lile Miller

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GLC#
GLC02155.027-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
5 January 1862
Author/Creator
Miller, Michael Murray, fl. 1861-1864
Title
to Lile Miller
Place Written
Virginia
Pagination
6 p. : Height: 20 cm, Width: 12.4 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

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 have Borne the Burden now for Seven months... hardly Receives a passing Remark..." Discusses a recent, confidential report: "...this Division has Been asked to go with Genl Butlers expedition and... the Generals are agreed to go if the Colonels are..."

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