Tag: Civil War

My Dear Wife I take the first opportunity of writing to you after our arrival in Washington, We left New York this Wednesday morning about 10 A.M. for Elizabethport N.J. From there we took the cars for Harrisburg, PA by the New Jersey Central R.… Read the rest “Washington”

We left camp yesterday morning at 8 o’clock to be gone until tomorrow afternoon for picket duty. One of our lieutenants was fired upon last evening and today we are ordered ———- any attack that may be made on our line of pickets but you must not give yourself any uneasiness for there is large force of rebels within thirty miles of us and there is at least three thousand men within one mile of as ready at a moment’s warning.… Read the rest “On Picket Six Miles West of Alexandria”