Bogart, Abram, fl. 1825-1865 to Mary M. Bogart and children
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03523.11.27 Author/Creator: Bogart, Abram, fl. 1825-1865 Place Written: Hilton Head, South Carolina Type: Autograph letter Date: 09/25/1864 Pagination: 4 p. ; 20.5 x 13 cm. Order a Copy
Writes to wife and children reporting that he is doing well, albeit disenchanted with the war. Tells them that James, possibly a neighbor or friend from home, is sick with dysentery. Reports that there are many other new recruits from Masonville that are sick. Updates them about his colonel, who resigned because he was found drunk in the general's headquarters. Reports that "the boys are danceing in the cookhouse and now it is rollcall and the drums are beating and the boys are falling in to line and then we go to bead and blow the light out..." Letter incomplete and unsigned.
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