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1858-06-12 from Peter in Troy to Clarinda in Utica, boat full of water, bully team, Cyrus, coal Schenectady

1862-06-19 from Utica, lonesome, garden, fiddle, looks "choopfallen", Jerry Mullin, Alex Lyons, circus

1862-06-29 sabbath, lonesome, Almeda gave birth, Julia and Tom, Malvina, musksprate, Hills, Brown came in shop, paired with Fragment 2, need to add text from s,t,i,closing I shall go to church tonight

1862-07-06 wants her to come home, chores, she has stayed with Rose so long, July 4,draft

1862-10-07 friend Marion in Cohoes to Clarinda, heard some "mate" died in Utica, is it Peter?

1862-10-12 arrived NY, cars not stopped, boys broke glass, 3 regiments in park, crowded, Baltimore

1862-10-18 "THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME", Camp Seward, sick, Gen Casey, Col unfeeling, Wes Dimbley

1862-10-20 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

1862-10-22 Camp Seward, may have camp itch, Washington Hospital, Antietem glass, small pox vaccine, paired with Fragment 4

1862-10-27 Camp Seward, color letterhead of woman helping Zouave, wet tent, Fletch, Fordis Phelps, deserters

1862-10-29 Camp Seward, review at Potomac, letter opened, Col and papers, deserters branded, molato

1862-11-05 Camp Seward, letterhead of Cleveland w woman and poem, coats, Julia and Tom, $3 left

1862-11-07 Camp Seward, embossed shield on letterhead,cold, snow, wet, bread, beans, and water,smoky tents

1862-11-13 5 day 60 mi march, unburied dead and horses, Bull Run, Gainsville, McClellan, 6 pgs

1862-11-16 Warington, surrounded by rebels and preparing to move, Jackson behind them

1862-11-27 Thanksgiving day, crackers and salt pork, near Washington, sick, marched 100 mi, Gen Lee

1862-11-30 Camp at Fredericksburgh, her military clothes, his dream, Ida, Peace rumors, hopes to settle it

1862-11-30MA to Clarinda from Marion in Cohoes, glad to hear it is not Peat who was dead, other friends, mill is running, got ten percent

1862-12-08 Camp near Fredericksburgh, freezing, tent like pocket handkerchief, all sick, rumors go home if no pay, old castle & cabbage

1862-12-12 Camp at Falmouth, witnessing shelling and burning of Fredericksburgh, got shelled shopping in Falmouth

1862-12-16 Camp near Fredericksburgh, describes 6 days of Battle of Fredericksburgh in detail

1862-12-18 Battle of Fredericksburgh, horrors, retreat, rear guard, lost, bridge destroyed as left

1862-12-19 Camp on Potomac Creek, sketch of Fredericksburgh made during bombardment, Tom to General Hospital

1862-12-20 Camp on Potomac Creek, Tom sick dysentary, court martial, no more Fredericksburgh

1862-12-23 Camp on Potomac Creek, reflects on peaceful life, buried 2 more, court martial 30 pound log, peace talk

1862-12-25 Christmas, hard to see die when might as well be sent home, disease doctors do not understand, deserters

1862-12-28 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

1863-01-04 Tom very sick, Jacob Breish coffin, Joseph Corrigan tent mate, Fletch separated

1863-01-06 from John W. Breish thanks for kindness to brother, can not get body, saw his folks and they are well

1863-01-11 guard Gen Warrens hq, daughter of the Regt 17th regulars chased by drunk soldiers, Burnside, Breish trinkets, resignations, all wish war over

1863-01-17 Camp on Potomac Creek, VA. Black tongue, Zouaves,hard tack box coffins. Dated Jan. 17 1862 (wrong year)

1863-01-25 building roads in mud, men would not cross, Lee said would help, men deserting, political war

1863-01-27 Camp near Potomac Creek,VA.,Clothes.lice,corporal,no coffins,Gen. Warren drunk! Says January 27 1862 (wrong year)

1863-01-30 got box she and Julia sent, can not get it to Tom, remitant and typhoid fevers, pay, Fredericksburgh relics

1863-01-31 taking box 30 mi rt to Tom at Acquia Creek hospital, made Fourth Sergeant, Fletch no barber business, says January 31 1863 (wrong year)

1863-02-02 describes train, shopping,conditions at general Hospital Acquia Creek, Tom, Lumbard

1863-02-07 Warren, picket, Mr. Steele, Malvina, commissioned, Tom, Hank

1863-02-19 Tom back, William Jones, Demming, Tom Gray, Sergeant school, her walking to school barefoot

1863-02-22 sketch winter scene on home page Armyofthepatomic.gif, snow, tents, wood, sickness and death, froze finger, government shoes, Deming, shoemaker Dennison, Washington Birthday

1863-02-xx probably between visit to Tom Feb 2 and March 1 letter that mentions Julia and turkey box, ward money, sergeant

1863-03-01 Camp near Potomac Creek,diarrhea, Demming, Dave Reese, rebel prisoners grit to backbone,well dressed, Julia, ward money, says March 1 1862 (wrong year)

1863-03-04 sending pipe, could sell for $10, they call him whittling yankee, earned 75 cents whittling, got gloves, Ed [Burbiege] Tom

1863-03-10 Camp sketch archway, Zouave uniform, Tom, Julia, turkey, money, Bates, Tyler, Sarah

1863-03-13 armed all night, extra cartridges, Rebels, 4th Oneida, Fordis Phelps, would desert if she needs money, conscription law, March 3 1862 (wrong year)

1863-03-21 firing around, smallpox vaccine,wants her to live with his parents, not her sister Julia, Tom may be discharged,George avoided draft?

1863-03-23 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

1863-03-25 predicts Rebs are drawing them back through Fredericksburg to Richmond, Joe Hooker, Generals, Demming reports dirtiest demoralized Regt, booed

1863-03-28 Joey, Josey, Sarah Graff, George Reiser, Hooker, bad drill, 146 best in marching, going for wood, will Ida recognize him, if knew no draft would be home now

1863-04-04 Col mad and sent them without rations, command Duryea Zouaves, see home page Zouavesonpicket.gif of them with young contrabands,Sesesh house, pontoons,Tom,George Wheeler

1863-04-06 sore eye Co A and Co H snowball fight, Lincoln review, copied funny Fredericksburg wedding night letter

1863-04-09 Grand Review by Lincoln 80 thousand troops, Rebels opposite, Fredericksburg ruins, children begging, no pay, sketching for money, whittling

1863-04-13 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?

1863-04-14 orders to move, 8 days rations, Cavalry says across river, sent her letters home with Mr. England owns Genesee St shoe store, sister Mally

1863-04-17 did not move, heavy rainstorm, sending $40 allotment pay, balloons over Fredericksburg looking for strike

1863-04-19 order to move, 8 days rations, sick to Washington, curious move, jokes she says she will be like poor girl, ammunition explosion, Hooker broke leg

1863-04-24 Hooker relieved of Command, rumor Fremont, upset his father is turning her out, Tom mad Julia letter says mother renting rooms

1863-04-26 tramp to Falmouth and Fredericksburg ruins, Rebel soldiers fishing in Union uniforms, graybacks and yellow bellies, pack 8 days rations, her living with strangers

1863-04-xx no location, scans originally identified as Undated 6, banner 1863, possibly April, just had "face pulled", may have changed

1863-05-17 sketch made in Libby Prison, details Battle of Chancellorsville, Mud March, Libby Prison experience, names of prisoners, Steamer S.R.Spaulding

1863-05-19 short letter, orders to leave Camp Parole, do not send money, tell Fletchers parents not to write until they hear

1863-05-22 traveled all over and settled at Convalescent Camp near Alexandria, suffered past weeks, hopes to come home in August, needs money

1863-05-24 Convalescent Camp, marched by Rebel Cavalry, horrible Libby Prison conditions and rations, sentry to fire if approach window, delightful camp now

1863-05-31 she is alone in shanty, Ft. Corcoran, Fletch, Givens, Billy and Charley Kirkland, Camp Seward easy, 146 not 4th of July soldiers, papers not come

1863-06-03 over cold, her letter with money, her lifting heavy things, who wanted the money, Fletch digearious fever, has not heard from Col, strawberries

1863-06-07 no letter from Col which was his hope of getting home, no one allowed to leave, how much are provisions and rent for paddy hole, where is George

1863-06-18 rumors of another Bull Run, description Menzo Gibbs death on battlefield, sick soldiers, her idea to telegraph, beef bone ring, paired with Fragment 3

1863-06-20 put up tents, 7000 convalescents arrived, sick to barracks, rumor furlough if sickness or death, new uniform curious, pities army hot

1863-06-24 waiting for her telegram, would give all to come home, girl in Camp age of Ida, soldiers waiting for letters, Fletch, artillery in camp, pin in mouth

1863-06-28 has not gotten telegraph she said sending, Fletch, hard march, wants furlough badly, 4 pictures in case Ida and Willie, afraid folks offended

1863-06-28DB Dear Brother, would have written if knew in Utica, does not write all hardships, discourages from enlisting, love to father and mother

1863-07-04 no 4th of July, took telegram to Col who sent to War Dept, dream home so reverse- will not, picture with Fletch new uniform, rumor Lee captured

1863-07-06SG from Sarah Graff in Hawkinsville NY to Clara, left Utica, house on lake, wishes died with husband and child, asks for Clara husband and children

1863-07-08 Ida sick, Papa girl, Willie, George to picnic, since telegram presentiment Lord will punish, rebels destroyed, tired, Malvina, Harwoods, Justis Place

1863-07-12 ring for Ida, rumor exchange soon, George, Utica Herald, picnic, she was cheated on stockings pay, Fletch photo, Bill Jones, Co A surrender, surrounded

1863-07-16 Ida sick again, sorry he told Fletch why she called for him and he told parents, Otto Gulick, Capson factory, money, Mary Myers

1863-07-19 hopes she got money, Ida sick, George & Mally do not write, will be exchanged, driving Rebels hard, hopes wicked rebellion ends, tired of lying around

1863-07-24 feels bad his folks treated her with disrespect, one room upstairs, her living so poorly, Joey steps and night society, Ida ring, no houses, George drafted?

1863-07-26 Mally letter with picture, boys going crazy good looks, sending Harpers Weekly, sad she cries when writes, lengthy sentiment, soon in service 1 year

1863-07-31 Joey letter picture, Mr. Hart, Bill Dagwell, Kate baby, prisoners revolted, new camp, guard, cut rations, CO stoned, furlough too late June 8, Dimbleby

1863-08-02 hot sun, Mr. Hart, prisoners guarded, half rations, revolted, desperate men may claim rights by force, could have been home, says Aug 2 1863 (wrong year)

1863-08-07 got her picture, soldiers will fall in love, she cannot come or might be blackguarded, Jim Harper, new Camp Parole better, cannot get stamps

1863-08-10 Potomac clams, huckleberries, Mr Place wants Mally to write, Tom and Julia letter, Regt 190 men, 4 regts consolidated, poem in different handwriting

1863-08-15 upset letter from Bill Dagwell says she went twice to Hart and Dagwell for money, what Old [Top?] said at Carters, cannot do his country justice

1863-08-16 got letter and picture of Mother, carries a lot of pictures, yellow fever, whiskey and quinine, Joey, young [top?], Sarah Graff, true as steel

1863-08-20 upset stomach, whiskey and quinine, soldiers beastly drunk, yellow fever, NY Herald, Rebels refuse exchange, riots and draft resistance, disheartens soldiers

1863-08-23 has been a year, may never come home, remembers their parting, Regt reduced from 900 to 170, 4th Oneida had it easy, sending papers

1863-08-28 Julia letter, her hop picking, Dave Jones horrible news, Commissioners cannot agree on exchange, Negro Soldiers, busy in charge of 68 men, same power as Capt

1863-08-29 sends picture, discourages hop picking, Utica draft, George, lay awake remembers Chancellorsville, human butchery, in charge Squad No 11

1863-09-03 papers George not drafted, Sarah Graff, Mr. Place, mean women Washington, Philip Smith, Bill Sweatfager, Bill Dagwell, Charles Milburey, Brother Henry

1863-09-08 Lieut furlough, deserters to be shot, detached corps, Ben Chapman, Michael Keating, Phil Smith and Andy, Washington women, caught something, Tom, Sarah

1863-09-16 tramp to Washington, War Dept, Smithsonian, Navy Yard, Capitol, Dave Laughlin, father to Roscoe Conklin for furlough, Francis Kernin, strict orders

1863-09-20 exchanged, going to front, clothing and 1800 guns, dream of going home vanished, Fletch nurse, hopes war ends after winter

1863-09-25 got recommend Conklin, took to Lieut but exchange orders, going to front, Col said no one can leave, Rosecrans and Burnside, prisoners likely shot if take arms

1863-09-27 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

1863-10-02 in Camp, rumor to Tenessee Gen Rosecrans,men confined refusing arms, no exchange,Fletch, Sarah Graff, Jakes brother Fred, Gods followers, wicked men

1863-10-08 back with Regt, bewildered, Regt altered, looked on with pride, new drills, Uticans would wonder, uniforms, owe Uncle Sam, march 8 days rations

1863-10-22 13 days driving Rebels and retreating, captured more than them, Fletch march stocking feet, Fairfax, 96 conscripts, Bill Dagwood, paired with Fragment 1

1863-10-26 left New Baltimore, 5 miles New Camp, No name, 8 days rations, heavy cannonading, short letter, mail call

1863-10-31 moving 4 weeks, shoes no soles wet feet, Dagwell, sold picture 50 cents, 250 conscripts, 146th great name no praise at home, Gen Garrard loved, Battle Bristow Station

1863-11-09 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

1863-11-13 suffered a great deal but well, made 2 pictures and got dollar, send him watercolor paints, Kate and Hank, Ida and Willie Sunday School, beau (probably Sarah), Jake

1863-11-20 not getting her mail, she lost tooth and hair turns grey, hospital men furlough to vote, Culpeper, Rapidan, another Chancellorsville, no paper or sutler

1863-11-24 marched to cross Rapidan but rain and mud, Meade determined, Fredericksburg, made 2 pictures for a dollar, Boys need tobacco, Tom Washington discharge

1863-12-20 no locations, Bealton Station? cold, exposure, hungry, buying bread, tent with fireplace,sent 2 letters since crossed Rapidan, afraid she is cold in old house, Tom letter

1863-12-25 got paid, sending $50 for Christmas, all buying at sutlers, bed of boughs, got paints, James Handwright, Steve Lent, hopes peace in New Year

1863-12-30 Sergt Guard House, Edic late furlough, candy Ida, moved, reenlistments, guerrillas slit throats, 146 three years, determined to win, different than last winter

1863-12-xx undated, Bealton, probably mid-Dec 1863, her Dec 7 letter, Meade rumor, half rations, winter shanty, soldiers will not get paid, Tom invalid corps, paired with Undated 2

1864-01-03 date looked like 5, she should not have sent money, James Handwright furlough, Edic guard house brought things, deserter executed, uniform picture, exposure deaths

1864-01-11 says Dec 11 but probably Jan 11, scans are Dec 11 1863, guard duty railroad no sleep 48 hour shifts, will not reenlist, Bill [Morey?], James Handwright, Edic

1864-01-15 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

1864-01-22 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

1864-01-28 sad she is upset whiskey, guerrilla threat, guard duty, tent mates snoring, Henry Brownell, Rebel revolver relic, Lotty, Joey letter, mother picture, grim monster war

1864-02-06 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

1864-02-08 forwards letter for father to drop at Herald Office, do not tell many who wrote it if it is printed, fight on Rapidan, prisoners on train

1864-02-11 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

1864-02-20 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

1864-02-25 got her letter and fathers, sending picture of himself in uniform,what did she think of newspaper piece, should he write another Julia, sending likenesses of Generals

1864-02-26 forwarding home pictures too heavy to carry, includes his own, with George Whittens brother, had with him weary miles VA and captivity in Rebeldom

1864-02-28 orders to move, 3 days rations, possible Mine Run, new picture, old one does not look like him any more than Abe Lincoln, did not send money, being stolen in mail

1864-02-xx probably February 8-14 1864, Undated 3, error sent her a letter for Eliza in St Johnsville, guard Gen Warren HQ, send army made Valentine, cold better

1864-03-04 little scrape, released prisoner without proper orders as Sergt of guard and was arrested but excused with reprimand, sending more pictures, Gulich

1864-03-05 Camp at Warrenton VA, says March 5 1863 (wrong year), pending scans from NYS archives

1864-03-08 talks of deserting because his family is treating her like a slave, Kate, Hank, children, wedding, gaieties, cries, mad, wants to protect her

1864-03-11 friends with Fletch but not tent mates, his picture, not a loafer, Willie, Ida, Mally, Bill Jones, Sarah, Garrards Tigers, men owe govt for clothes

1864-03-16 Congress transferring army to navy, asks her consent, Jackson picture, Handwright, Fletch orderly, Curran, Armstrong, sketch Capt Durkee one arm

1864-03-21 Stewarts Cavalry anticipated raid, Navy application, Mr. Hart, Lotty, father, heavy cannon, referenced enclosed Daily Chronicle clipping poem Soldiers Letters, Ford theater

1864-03-22 got paid and is sending check, Navy papers filled out wrong so sending back, expects to go any time, preparing to move camp, cigar box lace for Ida

1864-03-25 Ida sick, sleigh, wagon, watch, George, Tom home, Dimblebys lost child, waiting for navy papers, orders to move, sick moved, Grant, put Army of Potomac in motion

1864-04-01 Col Navy papers, Brig Gen Ayres, now 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 5th Corp, Gen Warren, Sykes like a father, left, target practice, preparing for terrible conflict

1864-04-14 Thursday the 14th, 1864- probably April- scans used to say mm-14-1864, warm, Spring campaign, drills,not transferred to Navy, Clarinda living downtown, Lotty, downhill worst

1864-04-19 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

1864-04-23 afraid did not pass Navy exam, preparations, officers on soldiers rations, bread and molasses, no communications after 26th, her dream is wrong, he is well

1864-04-29 mail stopped, Burnside 40 thousand men looked worn out, 10 thousand negro troops, fear hard battle, hope Lord spare us to meet again on earth, heaven protect us all

1865-06-19GC George C. Carter to Clarinda, brief notice husband officially reported deceased

1865-06-20GC George C. Carter to Clarinda, reliable news received from Army decease has been established, proceed with claims on government

1865-07-03 Off. of Correspon. w friends of Missing Men, informed PLD killed at Wilderness, May 5 1864,Charles Y Jones, Clara Barton, per RGP

1880-09-21WD from Will to Dear Sister, mother getting a little better, malarial fever, house full of folks, doctor, Grandma cholera, Sarah Graff, Aunt Malley

1880-09-xxWD from Will to Dear Brother and Sis, undated and no location, scan identified as Undated4WD, probably Utica right before 9-21, mother malarial fever

MusterRoll1 Peter L. Dumont's Muster Roll & News Clip

MusterRoll2 Muster Rolls for Tom Lumbard, Fletch and Wes Dimbleby

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