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Medical

Medical concerns dominated Peter's letters. While he assured Clarinda that he had a strong constitution and could recover from the many illnesses and injuries he incurred, he also reported on deaths and injuries of other soldiers resulting from disease and battles.

Clarinda's older sister's husband Tom suffered greatly from a lingering illness. Peter ended up traveling to visit Tom in a Washington hospital. Peter also chronicled the death of a young tentmate from disease and of another soldier from a head wound at Chancellorsville. Peter wrote to one family, sending home personal items, and asked Clarinda to communicate with another family. He even noted certain soldiers by name who had frequented prostitutes in Washington and Alexandria and ended up with venereal disease.

He reported on receiving a vaccination to prevent small pox and whiskey and quinine to prevent yellow fever.

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Date	Summary	Transcript	Event Description	Theme
1862-10-18	10-18-1862s.htm	Pending.html	"THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME", Camp Seward, sick, Gen Casey, Col unfeeling, Wes Dimbley	d:m:p:o:
1862-10-20	10-20-1862s.htm	Pending.html	Camp Seward, names sick, has itch, Col Corcorans McMickeys, sends flowers from Lee house, paired with Undated 5, need to add text from undated5i.htm	m:d:o:
1862-10-22	10-22-1862s.htm	Pending.html	Camp Seward, may have camp itch, Washington Hospital, Antietem glass, small pox vaccine, paired with Fragment 4	m:b:a:
1862-10-27	10-27-1862s.htm	Pending.html	Camp Seward, color letterhead of woman helping Zouave, wet tent, Fletch, Fordis Phelps, deserters	z:d:m:
1862-10-29	10-29-1862s.htm	Pending.html	Camp Seward, review at Potomac, letter opened, Col and papers, deserters branded, molato	m:n:o:d:r:
1862-11-27	11-27-1862s.htm	Pending.html	Thanksgiving day, crackers and salt pork, near Washington, sick, marched 100 mi, Gen Lee	f:m:o:d:a:
1862-11-30	11-30-1862s.htm	Pending.html	Camp at Fredericksburgh, her military clothes, his dream, Ida, Peace rumors, hopes to settle it	u:m:d:p:i:
1862-12-08	12-08-1862s.htm	Pending.html	Camp near Fredericksburgh, freezing, tent like pocket handkerchief, all sick, rumors go home if no pay, old castle & cabbage	d:m:p:u:
1862-12-19	12-19-1862s.htm	Pending.html	Camp on Potomac Creek, sketch of Fredericksburgh made during bombardment, Tom to General Hospital	f:m:d:u:a:i:
1862-12-20	12-20-1862s.htm	Pending.html	Camp on Potomac Creek, Tom sick dysentary, court martial, no more Fredericksburgh	f:d:m:u:
1862-12-23	12-23-1862s.htm	Pending.html	Camp on Potomac Creek, reflects on peaceful life, buried 2 more, court martial 30 pound log, peace talk	f:u:d:p:m:a:
1862-12-25	12-25-1862s.htm	Pending.html	Christmas, hard to see die when might as well be sent home, disease doctors do not understand, deserters	f:m:d:
1862-12-28	12-28-1862s.htm	Pending.html	many sick and dying, 9 officers reassigned, blames Capt Cone, guard duty, center position, unfit for duty, Fletch no letters in Utica from Regt since Fredericksburg	m:d:p:
1863-01-04	01-04-1863s.htm	Pending.html	Tom very sick, Jacob Breish coffin, Joseph Corrigan tent mate, Fletch separated	m:d:p:g:
1863-01-06	01-06-1863s.htm	Pending.html	from John W. Breish thanks for kindness to brother, can not get body, saw his folks and they are well	m:u:
1863-01-11	01-11-1863s.htm	Pending.html	guard Gen Warrens hq, daughter of the Regt 17th regulars chased by drunk soldiers, Burnside, Breish trinkets, resignations, all wish war over	m:d:p:o:u:i:
1863-01-17	01-17-1863s.html	01-17-1863t.htm	Camp on Potomac Creek, VA. Black tongue, Zouaves,hard tack box coffins. Dated Jan. 17 1862 (wrong year)	m:z:d:a:
1863-01-27	01-27-1863s.html	01-27-1863t.html	Camp near Potomac Creek,VA.,Clothes.lice,corporal,no coffins,Gen. Warren drunk! Says January 27 1862 (wrong year)	m:d:
1863-01-30	01-30-1863s.htm	Pending.html	got box she and Julia sent, can not get it to Tom, remitant and typhoid fevers, pay, Fredericksburgh relics	f:m:d:u:g:
1863-01-31	01-31-1863s.htm	Pending.html	taking box 30 mi rt to Tom at Acquia Creek hospital, made Fourth Sergeant, Fletch no barber business, says January 31 1863 (wrong year)	p:g:m:d:
1863-02-02	02-02-1863s.htm	Pending.html	describes train, shopping,conditions at general Hospital Acquia Creek, Tom, Lumbard	m:g:
1863-02-19	02-19-1863s.htm	Pending.html	Tom back, William Jones, Demming, Tom Gray, Sergeant school, her walking to school barefoot	u:m:g:s:p:a:i:
1863-02-22	02-22-1863s.htm	Pending.html	sketch winter scene on home page Armyofthepatomic.gif, snow, tents, wood, sickness and death, froze finger, government shoes, Deming, shoemaker Dennison, Washington Birthday	s:p:d:m:a:
1863-02-xx	02-xx-1863s.htm	02-xx-1863t.htm	probably between visit to Tom Feb 2 and March 1 letter that mentions Julia and turkey box, ward money, sergeant	m:u:
1863-03-01	03-01-1863s.html	03-01-1863t.html	Camp near Potomac Creek,diarrhea, Demming, Dave Reese, rebel prisoners grit to backbone,well dressed, Julia, ward money, says March 1 1862 (wrong year)	s:m:p:d:
1863-03-04	03-04-1863s.htm	Pending.html	sending pipe, could sell for $10, they call him whittling yankee, earned 75 cents whittling, got gloves, Ed [Burbiege] Tom	m:g:p:d:
1863-03-10	03-10-1863s.html	03-10-1863t.html	Camp sketch archway, Zouave uniform, Tom, Julia, turkey, money, Bates, Tyler, Sarah	z:m:u:
1863-03-13	03-13-1863s.htm	Pending.html	armed all night, extra cartridges, Rebels, 4th Oneida, Fordis Phelps, would desert if she needs money, conscription law, March 3 1862 (wrong year)	o:d:m:r:a:
1863-03-21	03-21-1863s.htm	Pending.html	firing around, smallpox vaccine,wants her to live with his parents, not her sister Julia, Tom may be discharged,George avoided draft?	m:u:r:d:a:
1863-03-23	03-23-1863s.htm	Pending.html	ordered to march with only food and blanket, Bright on crutches and other cripples ordered to march, if killed on field bring up children as Christians	c:d:m:
1863-04-13	04-13-1863s.htm	Pending.html	says Monday April with blank date, hopes children better, mud dried up, grass green, left in charge of Camp with Lieut Walker, foreign general, Tom discharged?	p:m:g:
1863-06-03	06-03-1863s.htm	Pending.html	over cold, her letter with money, her lifting heavy things, who wanted the money, Fletch digearious fever, has not heard from Col, strawberries	g:u:m:d:
1863-06-18	06-18-1863s.htm	06-18-1863t.htm	rumors of another Bull Run, description Menzo Gibbs death on battlefield, sick soldiers, her idea to telegraph, beef bone ring, paired with Fragment 3	m:p:d:b:o:a:i:
1863-06-20	06-20-1863s.htm	Pending.html	put up tents, 7000 convalescents arrived, sick to barracks, rumor furlough if sickness or death, new uniform curious, pities army hot	m:d:g:z:a:
1863-06-28DB	06-28-1863DBs.htm	06-28-1863DBt.htm	Dear Brother, would have written if knew in Utica, does not write all hardships, discourages from enlisting, love to father and mother	f:m:g:d:a:u:
1863-08-16	08-16-1863s.htm	Pending.html	got letter and picture of Mother, carries a lot of pictures, yellow fever, whiskey and quinine, Joey, young [top?], Sarah Graff, true as steel	g:m:u:a:
1863-08-20	08-20-1863s.htm	Pending.html	upset stomach, whiskey and quinine, soldiers beastly drunk, yellow fever, NY Herald, Rebels refuse exchange, riots and draft resistance, disheartens soldiers	m:d:n:p:
1863-09-08	09-08-1863s.htm	Pending.html	Lieut furlough, deserters to be shot, detached corps, Ben Chapman, Michael Keating, Phil Smith and Andy, Washington women, caught something, Tom, Sarah	d:u:m:g:a:
1863-09-20	09-20-1863s.htm	Pending.html	exchanged, going to front, clothing and 1800 guns, dream of going home vanished, Fletch nurse, hopes war ends after winter	p:m:
1863-09-27	09-27-1863s.htm	Pending.html	11th and 12th Corp left, Fletch must go with 5th not stay hospital with docs, tell Ida Pa will come home, will not desert, promotion, Admiral picture	d:m:u:
1863-10-22	10-22-1863s.htm	Pending.html	13 days driving Rebels and retreating, captured more than them, Fletch march stocking feet, Fairfax, 96 conscripts, Bill Dagwood, paired with Fragment 1	g:p:o:m:u:a:
1863-11-09	11-09-1863s.htm	Pending.html	on move, 2 battles, took 2200 prisoners, 9 artillery, drove them to drown in river, log cabins, Rebel letter, railroad destroyed, Tom invalid corps, Garrard	g:p:m:a:
1863-11-20	11-20-1863s.htm	Pending.html	not getting her mail, she lost tooth and hair turns grey, hospital men furlough to vote, Culpeper, Rapidan, another Chancellorsville, no paper or sutler	m:g:p:s:g:c:
1863-11-24	11-24-1863s.htm	Pending.html	marched to cross Rapidan but rain and mud, Meade determined, Fredericksburg, made 2 pictures for a dollar, Boys need tobacco, Tom Washington discharge	g:p:s:m:f:a:
1864-01-03	01-03-1864s.htm	Pending.html	date looked like 5, she should not have sent money, James Handwright furlough, Edic guard house brought things, deserter executed, uniform picture, exposure deaths	d:m:u:
1864-01-15	01-15-1864s.htm	Pending.html	Smith, Handwright, tries to be good to soldiers, speak well of him,whiskey New Years eve, Capt Clasgens and Lieut Dutton recruit Utica, Mosbys guerrillas	u:s:p:d:m:
1864-01-22	01-22-1864s.htm	Pending.html	got pictures, wishes Card de Visites, Melora Teed letter, shimmer, rats, been sick, Sweet Oil and Laudanum, Fletch home to recruit?, furloughs, George sleigh ride	u:m:d:g:p:
1864-02-06	02-06-1864s.htm	Pending.html	2 days guard duty rail road, cannons, captured 7 guerrillas included major, those wounded, Cone and Stanford arrested, how treated Jakes wife, Sarah, Zouave sketch	p:u:g:z:m:a:
1864-02-11	02-11-1864s.htm	Pending.html	Julia mad at Tom, all owed money but prepare they may never get it, bounties exhaust Treasury, take $2 a week from Baker and City subsidy, lengthy cruel war statement	p:u:m:d:g:a:
1864-02-20	02-20-1864s.htm	Pending.html	cold spell, daily routine described, breakfast, Charlie, Sarah, George Keiser, $1100 and 30 day furlough if 146 reenlist, sacrifice all life time for few days home	m:g:p:d:p:
1864-04-19	04-19-1864s.htm	Pending.html	sent to father for Clara, recd warrant, not sent for Navy exam, papers did not come, will try hard, preparing to move Fri, hurt finger playing ball,doctor excused	p:m:g:
MusterRoll1	MusterRoll1i.htm	Pending.html	Peter L. Dumont's Muster Roll & News Clip	g:m:
MusterRoll2	MusterRoll2i.htm	Pending.html	Muster Rolls for Tom Lumbard, Fletch and Wes Dimbleby	m:u:g: