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lot of 2 letter groups. Includes group of 5 letters to Charles Quimby, Co. C, Vermont 3rd Reg., 4 from his mother, 1 from his brother; and a group of 5 letters to Alexander Roeser from George Obaus(s)ier, 20th IN, Co. A. (Indiana State records spell his name with 1 `s,` but his signature has 2). Charles Quimby was from Concord, VT, and enlisted on June 1, 1861. He was mustered into the 3rd Vermont and stationed near Washington, DC by late summer 1861, and it was to here that Quimby`s mother addressed her letters. The unit was responsible for the defense of the Chain Bridge and the capital`s water supply. By March the following year, they abandoned the camps and joined the Peninsular Campaign. On the second of November, Quimby died of disease. It must have destroyed his mother, who begins her letters with some variation of `Dear and beloved Child.` Military life must not have been kind to Charles, as it was not to so many others. In her letter of June 1861, she notes that she is sorry to hear that Charles is ill. Brother George wrote a couple notes as well. In one he comments that he has tried to enlist, but the folks won`t hear of it. (He finally did by the end of August 1862, just 2 months before Charles died.) George Oboussier enlisted as a private in Feb. 1862. Two of the letters are from Camps Morten and Owen near Indianapolis. Others are from Lebanon, Thibodaux, LA and Matamoras Bay, TX. Two of the letters have a page addressed to a Wiedmer and are in German(?). Most of his letters describe camp life and travel. `I hope that we shall leave soon to get into a warmer country, for it is allready [sic] cold here in our cloth houses without stoves & straw.` His description of the voyage from New Orleans to Texas through the Gulf of Mexico is especially graphic: `More than one fifty cent dinner went out the same way as it got in and over board....` He was mustered out with the 60th at Indianapolis in April 1865.

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