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Collection Reference Number GLC03859.02
From Archive Folder Collection of Byron E. Churchill 
Title Byron Churchill to Drazilla Churchill offering encouragement that his brother will be found alive and revealing the toll that disease is having on the company
Date 26 July 1862
Author Churchill, Byron (fl. 1862-1900)  
Recipient Churchill, Drazilla  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Churchill learned in his mother's last letter that his brother is missing, and now offers encouragement that he will be found alive. He reveals that "disease is making sad havoc with us at present….[i]n fact I am more afraid of disease than I am of rebil bulits." He explains that only ten men in the company are fit for duty.
Subjects Civil War  Military History  Union Forces  Union Soldier's Letter  Soldier's Letter  Infantry  Children and Family  Health and Medical  Disease  Women's History  Battle  Confederate States of America  
People Churchill, Byron (fl. 1862-1900)  Churchill, Drazilla (fl. 1862-1865)  
Place written Corinth, Mississippi
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: Recipient Relationship Mother  
Civil War: Unit 15th Michigan Infantry, A company