1862 Charlestown Va March 6th My Dear Parents I received your letter of the 24th of Feb in due time and I was very glad to hear from you once more I had begun to think that you had not got my last and wrote another a few days since. I am well and hope this will find the same for I fear ere this that the children have got the measles.
Clark, Gardner B. – March 2, 1862
Cascade March 2, 1862 My own Loved Gardner, March stormy March has come but not stormy as yet. it is quite plesant and quite very good going. The rest of the folks have all gone
Loss, Henry – March 2, 1862
Camp Butler Newport News March 2nd 1862 George Grape Dear Sir, I take the opportunity of writing you a few lines to let you know that I am well and in good spirits and I hope that you r too. We are going to start for ships tomorrow and then up the Mississippi to New Orleans and we will perhaps stay there until we go home. We are going on the Constitution. The 4th Wisconsin and the 20th Indiana and Mims Battery is going with us. We shall perhaps see some pretty hard times.
Fisher, George W. – March 2, 1862
Camp Tillinghast Va Sunday March 2d /62 Dear Sister I received yours of the 23d last evening and was very glad to hear from you. I am very sory that your health is so poor but you must take good care of your health and dont expose yourself on any account my health is very good at present
Everett, Robert A. – March 1, 1862
Camp Michigan Fairfax Co Virginia March 1st 1862 My Dear Parents Once more I have the privelages of addressing you. Since writing my last we have been unusualy buisy. Measles have continued to increase
Potter, Charles H. – March 1, 1862
1 Mile above Commerce Saturday Missouri. March 1st 1862 Dear Father & Mother having a few moments to spare I thought I would write a few lines to let you know how I am getting along & where I am stoping at present.
Benton, Thomas H. – March 1, 1862
Fort Craig, Va. Mar. 1st 1862 Dear Father: I received your letter last night and was very glad to hear that mother was better. Since I wrote to you last I have received a letter from Joseph and Tommy, and one from Jesse. I have got more papers this two or three weeks past than I know what to do with.
Burge, Caroden S. – February 27, 1862
Hospital 2 Mich. Feb 27 1862 Dear Mother: Don’t be alarmed when you see I am in the hospital. Last Tuesday the reg. was called our suddenly on a reconnoisance. We marched very rapidly about through awful mud three miles, making us very warm, & were then halted in a cold mind.
Gaylord, Oliver C. – February 26, 1862
Hospital Feb 26th 1862 Wife I should like to have heard from you before I left St Louis there may be a letter in camp for me. I want to hear how you orig with the measels We have marching orders to leave today the river I am going along with the company I am not able to horse yet
Benton, Thomas H. – February 25, 1862
Fort Craig, Va., Feb. 25th, 1862 Dear Father: This is the first opportunity I have had of writing to you for some days. Last Friday I was detailed to go to the city as color bearer for the 22nd and did not get back till Sunday evening. On Saturday morning I with seven others went to the War Department. And we each carried a Rebel flag from there to the capital.
Winchell, Edward A. – February 24, 1862
Camp Michigan Feb 24th 1862 Dear Cousin Millie, I have no excuse to offer for not writing to you before. I have been at the point of writing several times but I did not know whether you would think me worth writing to or not so I have let it pass until now. I guess it will be just as good when it does get there though.
Wasson, John – February 24, 1862
Camp Mich. Feb 24/62 Dear Friend I will try and answer yours which I received yesterday. It found me enjoying my self as well as a soldier can expect. Times is dull here yet. I cant tell you how long they will remain so for as soon as the roads gets a little dryer we will be on the road traveling to find the secesh.
Foreman, James A. – February 23, 1862
Headquarters Camp Michigan Virginna Fifth Reg’t Michigan Volunteers, Comp D Febuary 23rd 1862 Dear Dollie You tell me that you have no news to write and that you have written to me so often telling me how bad you wanted to see me that it has become an old story my dear you do not know how much good it does me to have you tell me that I am dear to you
Burge, Caroden S. – February 22, 1862
Feb. 22 Morn. Washington’s Birthday. This morn the first thing I heared was the booming of cannon in all directions & our band playing the star spangled banner. There is to be a great celebration in Washington today. Tonight the outlines of the Capitol are to be traced in lines of fire, & on the dome is to be a Calc light.
Burge, Caroden S. – February 21, 1862
Camp Mich, 2 Feb. 21 1862. Dear Mother: I have just come off guard & take this opportunity to write to you. For the past two weeks we have had so much good news – so many glorious victories – that we can hardly come down to sober truth.
Potter, Charles H. – February 17, 1862
Camp Benton Sunday Feb 17th 1862 Dear Father I received your letter yesterday afternoon with that box of things and was very glad to hear from home. the boys are all well as can be expected I have got a bad cold & so has some the other boys. those boots fit just as nice as any one could wish
Foreman, James A. – February 16, 1862
Sunday afternoon Feb 16th Dear Dollie I am feeling verry lonesome to day I shall begin to think I am getting homesick for I am not contented in any place that we have been in lately. how I would like to be with my dear dear wife again to talk too
Gaylord, Oliver C. – February 16, 1862
Hospital 3rd Mich Cav St Louis Feb l6th/62 My Dear Wife I received yours of the 9th in due time and I tell you it is the greatest pleasure I can enjoy while here although I was sony to hear that Mother was sick and coming down with the measels I hope you will be very earetiil about letting her get cold.
Burge, Caroden S. – February 15, 1862
Camp Michigan 2 Feb. 15 1862. Dear Mother: I think that a letter will get to you by the appointed time if I do not write till Saturday. I have been so buisy this week that I have wanted this time.
Franklin, Luther – February 15, 1862
Head Quarters 5th Regt. Camp Mich. Co. C February 15th, 1862 Dear Parents, We received yours of the 5th on the 12th & were glad to hear of your good health. The reason of my writing today is because this Regt. is going on picket tomorrow, but I shall not go unless I can a pair of shoes big enough for me.
Gaylord, Oliver C. – February 12, 1862
BentonHospital near Camp Feb 12th 1862 My Dear Wife I received your letter of the 7 of feveburaiy this morning This is the first day I have been able to write since I was taken sick which was two weeks ago last sunday
Fox, Perrin V. – February 11, 1862
Somerset Ky. Feb. 11th 1862 My Dear Ida. Yours of the 30th ult. came to hand on Sunday. There has been considerable delay in your letters reaching me, but I have finally got them all as numbered. I have also received several papers. The one in which my letter to you is published has not yet arrival, but Capt. Sligh got one, which was circulated some in camp.
Benton, Thomas H. – February 8, 1862
Fort Craig, Arlington Heights, Feb. 8, 1862 Dear Father: I received your letter a few days ago, also one from Ella. I got a Cincinnati Gazette this evening from Joseph. Yesterday I got the Jeffersonian you sent me. Everything is the same as usual in camp. Preparations are still going on for an advance.
Forbes, Carey – February 8, 1862
1862 Camp Broadhead Feb 8th Saturday Evening Dear Parents I received your letter of Feb 4th today. it found me well with the exception of a cold. I have no particular news to write only of the unexpected death of E.W. Fusk which you will hear of before this reaches you. the free masons sent his remains to Kalamazoo.