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Collection Reference Number GLC03603.216
From Archive Folder Collection of Charles M. Coit, field and staff, 8th regiment, Connecticut, infantry 
Title Charles Coit to his family, expressing his wish that they could go back to Connecticut to vote on the Conscription Act
Date 29 March 1863
Author Coit, Charles M. (1838-1878)  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Writes he and his company wish they could go back to Connecticut to vote on the Conscription Act, which calls for a draft and excuses men who can furnish a viable replacement or pay the government $300. Says he has heard that an officer cannot walk through the streets of Hartford, Connecticut without being deeply insulted. Writes of wounded men being laughed at by some of the same people who encouraged them to enlist. Notes he had a portrait taken.
Subjects Civil War  Military History  Union Forces  Union Soldier's Letter  Soldier's Letter  Finance  Law  Conscription  Election  Government and Civics  Military Substitute  Photography  Politics  Injury or Wound  
People Coit, Charles M. (1838-1878)  
Place written Suffolk, Virginia
Theme The American Civil War; Health & Medicine; Law; Government & Politics
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  
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