Civil War Letter: William Bryant Carden to 'Dear sir,' October 6, 1861

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In this letter of October 6, 1861 William Bryant Carden writes to an unknown "Dear sir" describing in detail recent battles around northwestern Virginia following the Battle of Cheat Mountain. He describes conditions of weather and diet and expresses his feelings about the war.

Titel:	Civil War Letter: William Bryant Carden to 'Dear sir,' October 6, 1861
Link:	Zum Datensatz bei OAister, evt. Volltext
Quelle:	Digital Collection: Civil War Collection, a project of Hunter Library Special Collections and Digital Initiatives, Western Carolina University.
Ausgabe:	Text
Medientyp:	Elektronische Ressource
Umfang:	8" x 10.25"; 4 pages
Schlagwort:	Index Terms: Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 Cheat Mountain, Battle of, W. Va., 1861 Soldiers -- Diseases -- Virginia Soldiers -- Virginia -- Correspondence United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 Carden, William Bryant -- Correspondence Carden, William Beezley -- Correspondence 16th Infantry Regiment Text letters (correspondence)
Sonstiges:	Nachgewiesen in: OAIster Added Details: Carden, William Bryant Document Type: Electronic Resource Availability: Open access content. Open access content ; All rights reserved. For permissions, contact Hunter Library Special Collections, Western Carolina U, Cullowhee, NC 28723 Note: Location: Pocahontas County (W. Va.) ; Time period: 1860s ; Transcription: Pocahantus County V.A. Camp Lee oct 6th 1861 Dear sir I seat my self this morning to let you know that I am shering A Reasonable portion of health At this time I hope these few lines may come to hand And find you the same we are wating hear for A movement of some sort or nother our genrel has gone with the most of our army to assist Wise they have had sevrel fights sence our Army has gained the victory evry time they have killed and taken prisners large nos Jackson has whiped them out on cheat mountain we are kep hear on the Acount of sic[hole in page]s [sickness?] we are lisning for A call every day there was only 30 men in our company this morning Able for service our Redgment has done most All the service thats ben done in this Army it has went before all the time we was at Valley Mountain one month before we had Any help when we had our little fight we was in front and center 2 company flanked on the left while our company and the Buncom company flanked on the rite we was kept there 5 days the fire was kept up nearly all the time they fired on us with there cannons throwed Afew burns (?) they done no good we fought there picets 11 miles run them in to there trenches taken som[hole] [some?] provisins some of arms while we was engaged our officers was looking round And saw there condition Genrel Lee said he could take them with the loss of 1000 men but he said he would not give 500 men for Northwestern V.a so he called of his men And quit the drive. this country is well situated for wood And water though very coald we have plenty to eat such as flour Bacon pork and Beef sugar & coffee rice we have plenty of clothing we have had 2 suits of uniform & A good overcoat and can get more if we want them shoes is hard to get. I will tell you A little joke about 2 Irish. we had some Irish out on picet one of them went into A [_______ ? / hole] potato patch to get some potatos when he got there there was another they did not know but what they boath belonged to the same Arm ; Date of Original: 1861-10-06 ; Digital Collection: Civil War Collection, a project of Hunter Library Special Collections and Digital Initiatives, Western Carolina University. ; eng Contributing Source: WESTERN CAROLINA UNIV ; From OAIster®, provided by the OCLC Cooperative.

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