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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
1862-10-20	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:
1862-11-30	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:
1862-12-19	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:
1862-12-25	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:
1863-01-11	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:
1863-01-27	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:
1863-06-03	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:
1863-06-20	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:
1863-08-20	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:
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:
1864-02-11	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: