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Collection Reference Number GLC03603.073
From Archive Folder Collection of Charles M. Coit, field and staff, 8th regiment, Connecticut, infantry 
Title Charles Coit to his family, complaining about the captain
Date 1 February 1862
Author Coit, Charles M. (1838-1878)  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Written on board the ship "the Sentinal." Complains about the captain and of the Brookman's price gouging and tells of Colonel Harland's response. Writes of a missing soldier who is assumed to have fallen overboard during the night.
Subjects Civil War  Military History  Union Forces  Infantry  Union Soldier's Letter  Soldier's Letter  Corruption and Scandal  Diet and Nutrition  Finance  Maritime  Transportation  Death  Military Provisions  
People Coit, Charles M. (1838-1878)  
Place written s.l.
Theme The American Civil War; Health & Medicine
Sub-collection Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945
Civil War: Unit 8th Regiment, Connecticut, infantry  
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