Morey, Charles C., fl. 1830-1865 to parents
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03523.18.21 Author/Creator: Morey, Charles C., fl. 1830-1865 Place Written: Brickeystown, Maryland Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 4 August 1864 Pagination: 4 p. ; 20.2 x 25.3 cm. Order a Copy
Reports on his first day of service as 1st Lieutenant of Company "C" of the 2nd Regiment of Vermont Infantry. Encamped near Brickeystown, Maryland. Mentions Captain [Nathaniel] Wales' injury during the Battle of the Wilderness. Discusses a delay in receiving mail. Comments on sister's abstinancy during a time of sickness. Describes rebel pillaging of local flouring mill: "...near here is quite an extensive flouring mill and the owner says that the rebels took about $18.00 worth of flour, wheat and other property from him but he says he is willing to lose it all if we can only accomplish our end this I think shows him to be a Union man yet he may talk that way to blind us but if he was a secessionist they would not have taken his property from him…"
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