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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC03603.176 |
From Archive Folder | Collection of Charles M. Coit, field and staff, 8th regiment, Connecticut, infantry |
Title | Charles Coit to his family, complaining that General Sumner does not easily grant furloughs |
Date | 26 December 1862 |
Author | Coit, Charles M. (1838-1878) |
Document Type | Correspondence |
Content Description | Describes waking and reading aloud the "testimony of generals before the Conduct of the War Comm." and then preparing and eating a large Christmas dinner. Describes trying to make "lasses candy" and suspending "a Castor trimmed with evergreen and candles from the ridge pole as a chandelier." Says that General Sumner does not grant furloughs unless there is some sort of emergency. Of General Sumner he says "An old "Bull" he is indeed & I don't like him." Captain Sheffield returned after recovering with a wound and brought two recruits with him. Asks his family to keep the secret that "General Terry has again taken to his cups & pretty deeply too." |
Subjects | Civil War Military History Union Forces Infantry Union Soldier's Letter Soldier's Letter Holidays and Celebrations Congress Union General Government and Civics Diet and Nutrition Military Provisions Recruitment Injury or Wound Alcohol |
People | Coit, Charles M. (1838-1878) |
Place written | Fredericksburg, Virginia |
Theme | The American Civil War; Health & Medicine; 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: Theater of War | Main Eastern Theater |
Civil War: Unit | 8th Regiment, Connecticut, infantry |
Transcript | Show/hide |