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- GLC#
- GLC02016.027-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- January 15, 1863
- Author/Creator
- Painter, Heber, 1841-1900
- Title
- to sister Ella
- Place Written
- New Bern, North Carolina
- Pagination
- 6 p. : Height: 25 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
He has traveled from Norfolk to Fortress Monroe by the steamer "Expounder". Complains that the steamer was unsafe for transportation and that the men suffered from seasickness. The soldiers continued on to Beauford (also known as old Troxel Inlet), boarded another dangerous vessel, and disembarked at Morehead, where they took the railroad to New Bern, North Carolina. States that General Burnside "whiped the rebs so handsomely" that there were hundreds of graves everywhere. Gives a lengthy explanation of a long march through the woods. Reports on a skirmish along the railroad. States that New Bern is nicely laid out but has much poverty. Describes the poor people he meets and writes that "ignorance of the masses in the South accounts for this rebellion." The last page of the letter is cross-written. Written at Batchelder's Creek.
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