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Coit, Charles M., 1838-1878 to his family

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03603.231 Author/Creator: Coit, Charles M., 1838-1878 Place Written: Suffolk, Virginia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 24 May 1863 Pagination: 7 p. : Order a Copy

Says that he has hired a new servant named Bill. The Chaplin gave the soldiers a supply of new books and newspapers. Requests that his mother take the money he has sent and buy some letter paper to write him rather than the "old scraps" she has been using. Notes that he waits until he is alone in his tent to open his letters because of the poor quality of the paper. Requests news from home on the marriages of Mrs. Bull and Mrs. Dyer. Sends his regards to his extended family and friends and requests a green checkered shirt. Responds to news that a doctor from Connecticut is planning on fighting with the 18th regiment. Mentions that if the doctor is fighting, he must not have made a very good hospital steward. Writes of a kind of fly that plagues the camp: it "bites and poisons its victims in a manner that's most unpleasant." He also complains about wood ticks and other flies.

Coit, Charles M., 1838-1878

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