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Preferred Citation

Union Civil War letters, Accession #10997, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This collection was purchased by the Libray from Remember When Antiquities, Acton Maine, Dec. 21, 1990.

Scope and Content

The collection contains three letters, 1863-1864, to John F. Dodge, a partner in Dodge and Leahy, Boston, from Thomas Crozier, an assistant surgeon, 16th Massachusetts volunteers, and two unidentified Union soldiers discussing the Union occupation of New Orleans, 4th of July plans, and winter quarters at Brandy Station, Va. There are brief mentions of Union generals William H. Emory and Thomas West Sherman.

In addition there is a letter, November 23, 1861, from an unidentified soldier in the 3rd New York Volunteers mentioning camp life and imprisonment for drunkeness.

Henry W. Thorne, from an unidentified regiment (possibly the 21st Connecticut), writes on November 23, 1862, about the Army of the Potomac's march from Warrenton to Fredericksburg. He mentions rain; picket duty; Sunday worship; the transfer of a regiment to New York by the steamboat City of Hartford; family matters, chiefly the health of farm animals; and, asks for a pair of buckskin gloves or woolen mittens.

An unidentified woman writes from Quincy, Mass., April 27, 1864, concerning an anti-Lincoln pamphlet, and encloses a copy of Charles Kingsley's "The three fishers."