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Tag Archives: food
6 April 1863: “I do not think it would be agreeable to military etiquette to call on a Col’s. wife and therefore, though I much desire her acquaintance, I think I must defer the pleasure until freed from my uniform.”
Item Description: Letter, 6 April 1863, from a Union solder named Carl, written in camp, New Bern, N.C., discussing the Confederate blockade of the river and the Union occupation of the town. The letter also mentions the free time the soldier had … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged blockade, buttons, fishing, food, Neuse River, race, social life, union camps, Union soldiers
Comments Off on 6 April 1863: “I do not think it would be agreeable to military etiquette to call on a Col’s. wife and therefore, though I much desire her acquaintance, I think I must defer the pleasure until freed from my uniform.”
21 March 1863: “Her bondage, if such it can be called, sits lightly upon her; but she has no sympathy for rebels…”
Item description: Published letter, dated 21 March 1863, written by Corporal Zenas T. Haines, Company D, 44th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. The letter is an excerpt from Haines’ account, Letters from the Forty-Fourth Regiment M.V.M.: A Record of the Experience of a Nine … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged 44th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, African Americans, food, Henrietta, Massachusetts, New Bern, North Carolina, slaves, spring, Tar River, Tarboro, Union occupation, Zenas T. Haines
Comments Off on 21 March 1863: “Her bondage, if such it can be called, sits lightly upon her; but she has no sympathy for rebels…”
8 March 1863: “you wish to no how i got out of coming to the armey i was over age the call was from 18 to 40”
Item description: Letter, 8 March 1863, to Edwin Keiger in Kinston, N.C., from Joseph Boles in Raleigh, N.C.The letter describes the inflated prices for food, horses, and other goods during the Civil War. Included is discussion of why Boles was not … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Edwin Keiger, food, horses, Joseph Boles, Kinston, North Carolina, prices
Comments Off on 8 March 1863: “you wish to no how i got out of coming to the armey i was over age the call was from 18 to 40”
10 February 1863: “When we first began the life of a soldier our biscuits would have given a mule the despipsia; now rolls, light and luscious, grace our table.”
Item description: Letter, 10 February 1863, from Ruffin Thomson, 18th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, to his “Pa” (William H. Thomson). More about Ruffin Thomson: Ruffin Thomson was the oldest child and only son of William H. Thomson and Hannah Lavinia Thomson. He studied … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged 18th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, food, Fredericksburg, picket duty, Ruffin Thomson, William H. Thomson
Comments Off on 10 February 1863: “When we first began the life of a soldier our biscuits would have given a mule the despipsia; now rolls, light and luscious, grace our table.”
7 February 1863: “We foraged right and left; hardly a man of us without two or three old hens, dipper full of honey, and a few with ham or two.”
Item description: Portions of “Leaves from a Diary Written While Serving in Co. E, 44 Mass., Dep’t of No. Carolina,” an account, written by John Jasper Wyeth of Co. E, of the experiences of the 44th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. The book … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged 44th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, food, foraging, John Jasper Wyeth, published accounts
Comments Off on 7 February 1863: “We foraged right and left; hardly a man of us without two or three old hens, dipper full of honey, and a few with ham or two.”
27 January 1863: “…he heard that there was 100 negroes to hire out in Winston…””
Item description: Letter, 27 January 1863 from Emanuel Fisher to a member of the Pettigrew family, presumably Charles Lockhart Pettigrew, reporting on the condition of the slaves hired out by the addressee through Mr. Fisher for work in the Winston, … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Charles Lockhart Pettigru, childbirth, food, High Point, hiring out of slaves, North Carolina, Pettigrew family, slaves, Winston
Comments Off on 27 January 1863: “…he heard that there was 100 negroes to hire out in Winston…””
19 December 1862: “…we have lost in the Regt 13 since we organized, but we have at least 200 on the sick list, some of whom will die…”
Item Description: Letter, 19 December 1862, from Adoniram Judson Withrow, first lieutenant of Company C, 25th Regiment Iowa Volunteers, United States Army to his wife, Libertatia America Arnold Withrow in Salem, Iowa. [Transcription available below images.] Item Citation: From folder 1 of … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged food, Iowa, military promotion, sickness, Vicksburg
Comments Off on 19 December 1862: “…we have lost in the Regt 13 since we organized, but we have at least 200 on the sick list, some of whom will die…”
20 October 1862: “FRIENDS, TO THE RESCUE!!”
Item description: This broadside, which includes appeals from Governor Zebulon B. Vance, Surgeon General Edward Warren, and Assistant Quartermaster James Sloan, announces the State of North Carolina’s dire need of donations from private citizens to help clothe and shoe its … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged broadsides, clothing, donations, economic conditions, Edward Warren, food, food shortage, Governor Zebulon Vance, James Sloan, North Carolina Troops, soldier conditions, speculation, supplies, troop assistance, troops
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31 March 1862: “[Copperheads] are the most contemptable devils, of all others what ever shape they may assume.”
Item description: Letter, written by Abraham H. Botkin, a lieutenant in the 79th Ohio Infantry of the U.S. Army, to Mr. and Mrs. Bushey, possibly his brother-in-law and sister. Botkin wrote from Gallatin, Tenn., where action was at a standstill, … Continue reading
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Tagged 79th Ohio Infantry, Abraham H. Botkin, Copperheads, food, Gallatin Tennessee, homesickness, Union soldiers
Comments Off on 31 March 1862: “[Copperheads] are the most contemptable devils, of all others what ever shape they may assume.”
18 February 1862: “For breakfast, schedule reads ‘biscuits’; for dinner ‘biscuits & salt beef’, for supper sometimes ‘biscuits’, oftenest ‘nothing with tea or coffee’.”
Item description: Letter, 18 February, 20 February, and 21 February 1862, from Charles Woodward Hutson to his mother. Hutson describes the availability of food in camp and details a skirmish near the Occoquan River in Virginia. [Transcription available below images.] … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Army of the Potomac, Charles Woodward Hutson, food, Occoquan River, skirmishes
Comments Off on 18 February 1862: “For breakfast, schedule reads ‘biscuits’; for dinner ‘biscuits & salt beef’, for supper sometimes ‘biscuits’, oftenest ‘nothing with tea or coffee’.”