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Tag Archives: camp life
25 July 1862: “…had orders to be ready to march this afternoon with 3 days rations…”
Item description: Newton Wallace, Company I, 27th Massachusetts Infantry, comments on his company’s movements while in eastern North Carolina, near New Bern. The march was a part of the Union Army’s expedition from New Bern to Trenton and Pollocksville. See … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged 27th Infantry (Massachusetts), camp life, diaries, New Bern, Newton Wallace, North Carolina, soldier conditions, Union occupation, Union soldiers
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4 July 1862: “…Battalion line was Formed & Declaration of Independence Read…”
Item description: Newton Wallace, Company I, 27th Massachusetts Infantry, wrote this description of how he spent July 4th, 1862, in his diary. Wallace and his regiment were in occupied North Carolina, camped in tents “on the Old Fair Ground” in … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged 27th Infantry (Massachusetts), Burnside, camp life, diaries, diary, holidays, July 4th, New Bern, Newton Wallace, North Carolina, occupation, occupied territory, soldier conditions, Union occupation, Union soldiers
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11 May 1862: “I hope I shall not have to tell of another wholesale murder while I stay in S.C.”
Item description: Letter, 11 May 1862, from Emmett Cole, Union soldier in Company F of the 8th Michigan Infantry Regiment, from Beaufort, S.C., to his sister Celestia. Cole describes camp life, including a musical performance to honor fallen soldiers and … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged 8th Michigan Infantry Regiment, Beaufort, camp life, cricket, emancipation, Emmett Cole, music, slaves, South Carolina
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4 April 1862: “they told hir that may be the yankys would not pay hir she said she did not care if they did not she would wash for them gest as soon as the rhumaties was out of hir arm pay or no pay…”
Item description: Letter written from New Bern, N.C., by Union soldier Jeremiah Stetson to his wife, Abbie F. Stetson. Stetson references his son Edwin Leforrest Stetson (“E”), who was serving with his father, and describes a “negro woman” who did washing for … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged African Americans, Battle of New Bern, camp life, New Bern, North Carolina
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30 March 1862: “My unwavering confidence has only been in the final result, not in the intermediate steps which will lead to it. We may have yet enough of the same sort to endure to bring us to the verge of the precipice…”
Item description: Letter from Walter Waightstill Lenoir, written to one of his brothers. Item citation: In the Lenoir Family Papers #426, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Item transcription: Five miles East of Kinston, … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged camp life, Confederate Army, Confederate camp, Kinston, North Carolina, supplies
Comments Off on 30 March 1862: “My unwavering confidence has only been in the final result, not in the intermediate steps which will lead to it. We may have yet enough of the same sort to endure to bring us to the verge of the precipice…”
25 March 1862: “the Generall in Command (Gen Branch) gave orders when he retreated to burn the City & set fires in severall places but the people who did not leave got out the engines & put out the fires.”
Item description: This is the third in a series of four letters, which were written in 1862 by William B. Alexander to his wife Mary F. Alexander. In this letter, Alexander writes describing his the wound he received during the Battle … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Battle of New Bern, battlefield souvenirs, camp life, New Bern, North Carolina, William B. Alexander, wounded soldiers
Comments Off on 25 March 1862: “the Generall in Command (Gen Branch) gave orders when he retreated to burn the City & set fires in severall places but the people who did not leave got out the engines & put out the fires.”
21 March 1862: You wrote to me to know if I wanted any thing to write for it I do not want any thing but a pair of shoes
Item Description: Letter of 21 March 1862, from Richard Godwin Joyner to his mother, Julia Joyner. This brief and slight letter home is meant to reassure his family that all was well and to request a better pair of shoes. … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged camp life, Goldsboro, Gunboats, Jenner Pearce, Joyner Family, Julia Joyner, Leondus Spencer, Richard Godwin Joyner, slavery
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9 February 1862: “…they are steady and prudent not partaking of the vices so common in camp – George told me he had been often begged to play cards – he told them he did not know how and never intended to know…”
Item description: Letter, 9 February 1862, from Frances Goggin Parker to her son Robert W. Parker, a soldier in the 2nd Virginia Cavalry. [Transcription available below images.] Item citation: From volume 2 in the Robert W. Parker Papers, Southern Historical … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged 2nd Virginia Cavalry, camp life, family, home front, Robert W. Parker, Virginia
Comments Off on 9 February 1862: “…they are steady and prudent not partaking of the vices so common in camp – George told me he had been often begged to play cards – he told them he did not know how and never intended to know…”
26 December 1861: “I was promising myself much happiness in spending a few days with you at New Year’s, and am much grieved that it has to be deferred…”
Item description: Letter from Elisha Franklin Paxton to his wife, Elizabeth, dated 26 December 1861. In the letter Paxton informs his wife that his hoped-for furlough would not come through in time for him to visit around New Year’s Day, … Continue reading
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Tagged camp life, Elisha Franklin Paxton, furlough, love letters, soldier conditions, Virginia, Winchester
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15 December 1861: “Sunday In Hospital came down with measles”
Item description: Entry, dated 15 December 1861, from diary of Newton Wallace, Company I, 27th Massachusetts Volunteers. Wallace was born in Holland, Massachusetts, and was twenty years old at the time of his enlistment. [Editorial Note: Wallace and his regiment … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged 27th Infantry (Massachusetts), camp life, disease, health, measles, Newton Wallace, soldier conditions, Union soldiers
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