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- GLC#
- GLC10151.01.01-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- March 30, 1862
- Author/Creator
- Coriell, W. Wall, fl. 1862
- Title
- to Benjamin S. Elliot
- Place Written
- Camp Baker, Maryland
- Pagination
- 4 p. ; Height: 18.4 cm, Width: 13.8 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
One letter from W. Wall Coriell to Benjamin S. Elliot dated March 30, 1862. Wall writes how glad he is to receive a letter from Elliot as the mail had come in after he went to sleep. He mentions that in the letter Elliot asks if they are across the river, and they are not although his company has been across multiple times but they are camping on the other side. The river mentioned is likely the Potomac as Coriell mentions they are located at Cockpit Point. He further mentions that his company had chased a section of Confederate calvary fifteen miles. He also mentions enslaved people coming into the camp and the actions they take. He mentions seeing some people from home in different regiments and that they seem to be fine. He asks Elliot to remember him to his family.
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