- GLC#
- GLC03603.218-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- March 30, 1863
- Author/Creator
- Coit, Charles M., 1838-1878
- Title
- to his family
- Place Written
- Suffolk, Virginia
- Pagination
- 4 p. :
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Writes that the enemy is surrounding Suffolk and "The cannon[s] are cannons are booming away at short intervals," though they have not been attacked yet. Notes that one of the pickets from his Regiment was attacked a few days ago. His brigade has been ordered to different places around the camp to keep guard.
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