- GLC#
- GLC03858.02.02-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- October 31, 1862
- Author/Creator
- Parrott, Henry C., fl. 1861-1877
- Title
- to sister
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 4 p. : docket ; Height: 20.3 cm, Width: 25.3 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
It is difficult to find water on march as the streams have all dried up; the river they are camped by is the first running water he has seen since they crossed the Ohio. He read a letter from his father to John and found it most encouraging. The regiment was "pretty badly cut to pieces at Perrysville;" "the boys fell around me as fast as grass before a scythe." He is now Orderly Sergeant.
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