April 5, 2024
1863 CIVIL WAR ERA LETTER FROM FORT TOTTEN NEW BERN NC
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Up for auction is vintage 4 page Civil War Era letter datelined Fort Totten New Bern, North Carolina, Sept 27, 1863. Letter was addressed to Charles Squire, Monson, Massachusetts. Paper has staining and age yellowing. Letter from Elbridge Pond. He was of the Massachusetts 2nd Heavy Artillery. Excerpts from the letter:.......... "........we fired a salute of our guns yesterday in honor of the capture of 25000 prisoners and several light pieces by General Sherdan......t has been a good deal of sickness this fall. The yellow fever has been doing considerable mischief for a week or two back. Some days t would be 40 or 50 die in one day.............t are not 3000 troops in New Bern. We are having recruits most every day to fill the ranks of our regiment..............a great many think we shall be to home by the next 4th of July...................you know that it is a soldiers privilege to confiscate whatever comes in his way and I thought that I would as long as it was a good chance. I saw an old ?????going along at a very good trot when a bag fell out behind and I ran and picked it up and what do you suppose I got. It was a whole cheese (?) and 3 plugs of tobacco, 2 bottles of whiskey and 3 pounds of sugar which I carried in to camp and hid it. It was not long before the old fellow came back and hunted all over camp to find it. But he
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