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Tag Archives: food
25 December 1861: “Today Being Christmas the Col has excused us from drill and we are trying to pass this hollyday as best we can.”
Item description: Letter, 25 December 1861, from Emmett Cole, a Union soldier in Company F, 8th Michigan Infantry Regiment, encamped at Port Royal Island, S.C., to his sister Celestia. Cole commented on Christmas in the context of war, the Charleston fire, … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged 8th Michigan Infantry Regiment, Charleston, Christmas, food, health, Port Royal, Union occupation, Union soldiers
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11 December 1861: AN ORDINANCE FOR SUPPRESSING OPPRESSIVE SPECULATION UPON THE PRESENT NECESSITIES OF THE PEOPLE
Item description: An ordinance by North Carolina’s Secession Convention prohibiting speculation on “corn or other grain growing in the fields, or any other corn or grain, pork, or beef, either fish, salted or smoked, cheese, fish, coffee, sugar, tea, salt, … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged commodities, economic conditions, food, food shortage, goods, laws, North Carolina, ordinances, prices, Secession Convention, speculation, supplies
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9 December 1861: “It would do you good to hear the slaves tell about their masters leaving”
Item description: Letter from Emmett Cole, Company F, 8th Michigan Infantry Regiment, to his sister, Celestia. His letter describes the work of striking camp at Hilton Head; the scenery while traveling by boat on the Port Royal River to Beaufort, … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged 8th Michigan Infantry, camp life, food, Hilton Head, picket duty, Port Royal, slaves, South Carolina
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5 November 1861: “Got up and got Breakfast about 6, AM lay round Resting till 11 then marched out of the city to our destined camp…”
Item description: Entry, dated 5 November 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 25th Massachusetts Regiment, 27th Infantry (Massachusetts), 51st New York Regiment, Camp Burnside, camp life, food, Newton Wallace, soldier conditions, Union occupation, Union soldiers
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4 November 1861: “…had Refreshments provided by Citizens Ladies of Philadelphia at Soldier’s Refreshment saloon…”
Item description: Entry, dated 4 November 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), Annapolis, Baltimore, food, Maryland, Newton Wallace, occupation, Perryville, Philadelphia, Union occupation, Union soldiers, United States Naval Academy
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26 October 1861: “there is about 70 Ships in the Fleet and as near as I can learn there is about 70,000 troops on board.”
Item description: Letter, 26 October 1861, from Emmett Cole, Company F, 8th Michigan Infantry Regiment, to his sister Celestia. Written aboard the U.S. Steam Ship Vanderbilt, Cole describes his present conditions, at sea with the United States Navy fleet. Emmett … Continue reading
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Tagged 8th Michigan Infantry Regiment, Emmett Cole, food, rations, sailors, steamers, U.S.S. Vanderbilt, United States Navy
Comments Off on 26 October 1861: “there is about 70 Ships in the Fleet and as near as I can learn there is about 70,000 troops on board.”