Washington D.C. May 30th 1865 Dear Mett I received your letter of the twenty second yesterday and was very glad to hear from you I am well yet and waiting very patiently to start home we dont know when we will go yet. thare is a thousand and one reports
Congdon, Rollin M. – May 28, 1865
Camp near Washington D.C. Sunday May the 28/65 My Dear Wife I have not much news to day but as it is sunday I thought I would write a few lines. I wrote the 26 onely two days ago. I am well + hope you + Allie are well + all of the rest of the folks all so.
Hutchins, Sabin D. – May 26, 1865
May 26th /65 Washington, D.C. Friday morning Dear sister Mariette as our marching is over and we are again in camp I am going to try and answer your letters as soon as I get them. your letter which I recd last night found me well. But I tell you we have had an awful hard march since I wrote to you last. I believe the last time I wrote to you we were in Golds Boro N.C.
Congdon, Rollin M. – May 22, 1865
Camp near Alexandra, V.A, May the 22/65 My Dear Wife I received your letter + Abs when near Richmond + was glad to here from you, you said you have not had my letters I dont no why they dont go more reguler I have writen every chance I have had.
Hutchins, Sabin D. – May 16, 1865
Chattanooga Tenn May 16th 1865 Dear Sister I have just had the pleasure of reading your interesting letter if found me enjoying myself firstrate I never enjoyed myself better in my life than I do now and I hope that my letter will find you the same. I am glad that you like your school so well. The young folks in our neighborhood must be pretty well cleared out.
Dunham, Edwin R. – April 28, 1865
April 28, 1865 Camp near Raleigh, N.C. E.W. Curtis Dear Friend I am just in receipt of yours of 9th of the present month to which I have read with interest. I am well and have been since I left Bridgeport it being two months today. This Army is in a lively condition as the Rebellion has played out as near as I can get at it
Scott, George W. – April 22, 1865
Raleigh, N.C. April 22nd 1865 Dear Sister It has been some time now since I have had a letter from you. I am well get and congratulating my self on coming home in a few months. We have marched from Goldsboro here since last I wrote and got Johnson cornered so he has surendered to Gen. Sherman.
Dunham, Edwin R. – April 3, 1865
Goldsborough, NC, April 3d/65 Mr E W, Curtis Dear Friend I will improve the presant oppertunity to write you I arrived at this place March 25th where we found the Engern 1st Michigan Swifts in camp they arrived ther the day previous to our joining them
Scott, George W. – March 29, 1865
Goldsburo N.C. March 29th 1865 Dear Sister I received a letter from you yester day and was more than glad to hear from you for it is all most the first one I have had for over two months I received one from Myron yesterday the first I have had since I left Savanah.
Hutchins, Sabin D. – March 28, 1865
Goldsboro March 28th 1865 Dear Sister I will try and answer your letter which I reced day before yesterday but I dont know how I shall make out for I havent written any in so long a time that I havent almost forgotten how I was glad to hear that you were well and wish that I could tell you that am enjoying the same health, but I cant do it this time. I was taken with the intermittent fever about a 150 miles back from here and I expect that I was pretty sick for a week or two
Dunham, Edwin R. – March 12, 1865
U.S. SANITARY COMMISSION Battery Barracks NJ. City March 12th 1865 Mr. EW. Curtis Dear Friend Once more I will avail myself of the opportunity to write you I am quite well at present
Dunham, Edwin R. – March 9, 1865
U.S. Sanitary Commission N.York City March 9th/65 After riding night and day since left Bridgeport, laying one day at Mufressburo, I find myself at this strange place waiting further orders which I expect will be to go to Governors Island and there wait transportation to Savanah. You may bet that I have had a rough time of it.
Scott, George W. – January 21, 1865
Savanah Geo. Jan 21st,1865 Dear Sister I received you letter yesterday dated November 26th and was more than glad to hear from you although the letter was pretty old, yet is was new to me. I am very glad to hear that you are well and going to school. I would like very much to go to school this winter but I dont wee s very good chance now unless it is Military Scool.
Hutchins, Sabin D. – January 21, 1865
Saturday Morning Savannah, Ga. Jan 21st 1865 Dear Sister Mariette how are you this morning. I am well and rugged as ever and hope to find you the same. I recieved too letters from you yesterday the last one was dated Dec 14th but I was very glad to hear from you.
Slater, William – January 14, 1865
The U.S. Christian Commission Sends this sheet as the Soldier’s messenger to his home Let it haste to those who wait for tidings General Sherman’s Army Reg. 1st Mich Eng + Mechnicks January 14th 1865 From William Slater to Miss Ann Clark I now take the privalige to adress a few lines to you as I can not hear from you. I though that I would keep siting for a spell
Slater, William – January 1865-July 1865
Savannah Georgia
January Sunday, 1, 1865
We laid in camp till 11 oclock
then the company went to work
and maid twenty ramers
to ram dirt for fortifications
Monday, 2.
the company went out to cut
biush for fortifications some three
miles from the citty
Scott, George W. – December 27, 1864
Savanah Georgia Dec 27th 1864 Dear Sister I now take the first opportunity to let you know how I am a getting a long I am well as usual and enjoying my self as well as the circumstances will permit
Hutchins, Sabin D. – December 26, 1864
Monday Evening Savannah Ga Dec 26th 1864 Dear Sister I am very glad to let you know that I am well after so long a time, and I should like better to hear from you I tell you met we have had a hard march but we have all got through all right we only lost one man out of our Co. but I tell you we have about striped the Southern Confectionary.
Whitworth, Herbert – December 13, 1864
My Dear Hur[rest was torn away] Yours daited the 20 came to hands yesterday, and I was thankfull to here that you was well and comfortable. I feel to want to stay there for I think you are not in as much danger. I dont not but before this you will have had a sourfull letter from your poor dear mother,
Whitworth, Herbert – October 16, 1864
Oct 16th 1864 My Dr Son I expect you will begin to think it longer than usal ere you receive a letter from home but dont think that we forget you we receive yours with pleasure & though of you every day but as I was from home I thought of we waited till she came home we might have something a little more interesting to write
Whitworth, Herbert – October 16, 1864
Chattanooga T. Oct 16th 1864 My dear Friend. Another of God’s livly days has dawned upon us and I am again at liberty to devote a little time to personal affairs. having been to closely occupied through the week for such purposes. Indeed I had so much to do lately I have been obliged to neglect some of my correspondents
Hutchins, Sabin D. – October 9, 1864
Sunday afternoon Chattanooga Tenn Dear Oct 9th Sister How are you to day and where are you I should like to be with you where ever you are. I am well as ever and hope that you are the same. It hasent been but a little while since I wrote to you but I have got to do something to pass away time and I dont know as I can occuppy my time any better than writing a few lines to you. It is very pleasant here to day but it is pretty cold.
Scott, George W. – October 4, 1864
Chattanooga Tenn October 4th 1864 Dear Sister Mett I received your kind letter dated the twenty first and was very glad to hear from you and to hear that you was well I am well as usual and enjoying my self as well as I can under the circumstances
Hutchins, Sabin D. – October 4, 1864
Tuesday Evening Chattanooga Tenn Oct 4th 64 Dear Sister Met I have just been to singing school this evening and as it went very late I will try and answer your letter which I recieved in Georges I was very glad to hear from you and that you were well. I hope that mother will be well by the time you get his. We havent had any mail in most two weeks untill to day. There has been three bags full of mail brought down from town to day for this regt and there is some up town yet.