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Lyon, John P., to his parents, 12 Feb 1865

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, item: 10
Identifier: 10
Scope and Contents Lyon, John P., Co. B, 24th Virginia Infantry, CSA, to his parents from Chester Station, VA. Includes a note at the end to his brother and sister. Indicates that he has returned from his leave and is now "sharing the cruell fate of war." They are short on rations and have not drawn any meat for three days. He mentions that in North Carolina, Fort Fisher has fallen and Fort Caswell has been evacuated and will get no more supplies from Nassau. There is a lengthy commentary on the Peace...
Dates: 12 Feb 1865
Found in: Eastern Kentucky University Libraries, Research Center for Special Collections and Archives / Civil War Collection (Subject) / Personal documents, G-W

Foster, Joseph Milton, to mother, 27 May 1863

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 17
Identifier: 17
Scope and Contents Foster, Joseph Milton, Private, Co. F, 37th Massachusetts Infantry, USA, to mother. "Army of the Rappahannock"-- Foster reports that a fellow soldier, Mr. Bartlet, is in the hospital due to breathing difficulties and hopes he will get a discharge. Foster is proud of his own strength and ability ("I am a tuff soldier, thare hant but two or three that have dun so mutch duty as I have") and amusingly notes that the smartest are better off than the biggest because they last longer-- "We have...
Dates: 27 May 1863
Found in: Eastern Kentucky University Libraries, Research Center for Special Collections and Archives / Civil War Collection (Subject) / Personal documents, A-F

Foster, Joseph Milton, to parents, 13 June 1863

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 18
Identifier: 18
Scope and Contents Foster, Joseph Milton, Private, Co. F, 37th Massachusetts Infantry, USA, to parents. Foster gives a trenchant look at the life of a Civil War soldier: one night of sleep in a week, constant picket duty, skirmishing, digging rifle pits and fortifications. His company dug three miles of rifle pits in one night: "I guess you would laugh to see 1,000 picks and shovels in the air to once..." He comments that the "one hundred pounder" they possess will "make the Rebs hop", but also that some of...
Dates: 13 June 1863
Found in: Eastern Kentucky University Libraries, Research Center for Special Collections and Archives / Civil War Collection (Subject) / Personal documents, A-F

March, George W., 14th New Hampshire Infantry, USA, to his mother, 15 Oct 1863

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, item: 11
Identifier: 11
Scope and Contents

Written from a hospital in Danville, MD. March expresses his wish to be home in time for Thanksgiving, being "unable to perform the duties of a military man." He expects to be sent to Finley Hospital but his honorable discharge is being held up by a feud between Capt. Hodgeson and Dr. Theyer.

Dates: 15 Oct 1863
Found in: Eastern Kentucky University Libraries, Research Center for Special Collections and Archives / Civil War Collection (Subject) / Personal documents, G-W

Foster, Joseph Milton, to father, 13 Aug 1863

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 19
Identifier: 19
Scope and Contents Foster, Joseph Milton, Private, Co. F, 37th Massachusetts Infantry, USA, to father. Written from Fort Hamilton, New York City Harbor, Foster reports that the Ware, MA, boys are doing well and he likes swimming in the salt water and watching the ships, but he then gives a litany of complaints: the days are hot, the mosquitoes are terrible, the band was playing too loud to allow him to sleep, they haven't been paid in six months. (Referring to being paid by "the old fellow" [the Federal...
Dates: 13 Aug 1863
Found in: Eastern Kentucky University Libraries, Research Center for Special Collections and Archives / Civil War Collection (Subject) / Personal documents, A-F

March, George W., to his father, from Finley Hospital, Washington, DC, 30 Oct 1863

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, item: 12
Identifier: 12
Scope and Contents

March, George W., 14th New Hampshire Infantry, USA, to his father, from Finley Hospital, Washington, DC. March is awaiting a furlough and asks his father to send his best clothes to Williamsburg, NY, to wear home.

Dates: 30 Oct 1863
Found in: Eastern Kentucky University Libraries, Research Center for Special Collections and Archives / Civil War Collection (Subject) / Personal documents, G-W

Foster, Joseph Milton, to parents, 09 Sept 1863

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 20
Identifier: 20
Scope and Contents Foster, Joseph Milton, Private, Co. F, 37th Massachusetts Infantry, USA, to parents. In the first half of the letter, written to his father, Foster mentions a visit to the camp that his father made and the attempted suicide of a man in his company: "He jumped out of a window the other knight that was two stories high, he was crazy, he went through the window sash and all head first, broke half of the window out and I should have thought it would of broke his hed but it did not hert him...
Dates: 09 Sept 1863
Found in: Eastern Kentucky University Libraries, Research Center for Special Collections and Archives / Civil War Collection (Subject) / Personal documents, A-F

Foster, Joseph Milton, Private, Co. F, 37th Mass., to parents, 15 Nov 1862

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 10
Identifier: 10
Scope and Contents

Foster, Joseph Milton, Private, Co. F, 37th Massachusetts Infantry, USA, to parents. The first of a series of letters to his family. Included are boasts that he is "tuffer" than they thought and states he has adjusted well to the difficulties of army life. He reports on the condition of other boys from his hometown of Ware, MA, and notes that although they do a lot of marching, and have no tents, they have plenty to eat.

Dates: 15 Nov 1862
Found in: Eastern Kentucky University Libraries, Research Center for Special Collections and Archives / Civil War Collection (Subject) / Personal documents, A-F

Foster, Joseph Milton, to parents, 06 Jan 1863

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, item: 11
Identifier: 11
Scope and Contents Foster, Joseph Milton, Private, Co. F, 37th Massachusetts Infantry, USA, to parents. Foster tells of being within sight of Confederates while on picket duty along the Rappahannock River ("Plenty of them, they hain't all kild yet... they hant so damd easily whipped as they thought when they began"), and of a plantation owner who had 58 slaves at the war's beginning and now has 12, whom he has set free. Seven hundred wounded men were carried to the plantation during the Battle of...
Dates: 06 Jan 1863
Found in: Eastern Kentucky University Libraries, Research Center for Special Collections and Archives / Civil War Collection (Subject) / Personal documents, A-F

Broadside, 08 Jun 1864

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 5
Scope and Contents

A broadside addressing Special Order No. 1, issued by Headquarters, Military Commandant, Col. Wickliffe Cooper, 4th Kentucky Cavalry. It declares martial law will be enforced for Lexington, KY and the surrounding area and outlines the enforceable restrictions on ballrooms, drinking establishments, and residential activities.

Dates: 08 Jun 1864
Found in: Eastern Kentucky University Libraries, Research Center for Special Collections and Archives / Civil War Collection (Subject) / Military documents, USA

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