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Letters from Two Brothers Serving in the War; For the Union to Their Family at Home in West Cambridge, Mass

Letters from Two Brothers Serving in the War; For the Union to Their Family at Home in West Cambridge, Mass


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: now, and may the God of battle protect and defend us, for we have the consciousness of being in the right, and we feel that we must prevail. There is much on every side to write about, but time will not admit of saying more now, so farewell. War Ken. Martlnsburg, Va., March 7,1862. Dear Father, ? I received your letter of March 2d, yesterday. I had been out on picket on the Winchester turnpike, and found that and two papers to welcome me on my return. These frequent letters from home are truly gratifying, I can assure you. Wednesday last all the troops received orders to march immediately with twenty-four hours' rations; when we got ready there was one company detailed from each regiment to remain and do guard duty, ? Company A being the unlucky one from the Thirteenth. The main body then took up the line of march for Bunker Hill, distant about ten miles; the guard were then sent off on picket. We went in squads on the different roads leading out of town; our squad took the Winchester road for about two miles. Our orders were to allow no person to leave the town without a pass. At night those not on duty took up their quarters in an old barn. The next day we were relieved by an Indiana company and returned to town. You can form no idea of the wholesale destruction of property here by the rebels. I counted upward of forty locomotives of the largest kind, partially burned and stove up, in one heap; there were large depots, engine-houses, etc., burnt or otherwise destroyed, together with bridges and everything else pertaining to a large railroad business. Our orders now are to be ready to march to join our regiment to-morrow morning at nine o'clock. Winchester, Va., March 14. We are here at last, all safe and well but a little footsore. We did not have the fight we e...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217010115
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 56
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217010113
  • Publisher Date: 08 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 118 gr


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