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Collection Reference Number GLC04662.010
From Archive Folder Charles E. Walbridge Collection 
Title Charles E. Walbridge to his mother requesting clothing and describing a visit to a local plantation
Date 12 July 1862
Author Walbridge, Charles E. (b. 1842)  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description He asks his mother to send various articles of clothing and leather goods such as sword belts, boots and a holster. The regimental quartermaster is returning so Walbridge may have to return to his company. Describes an officer's dinner and a visit to a local plantation where the overseer complained about Union troops taking all the grain. He encloses a Secesh pay roll and buttons, confederate money, and a court deposition dated 1689, which he took from Warwick Court House [none of these items are included in the collection].
Subjects Civil War  Military History  Union Forces  Union Soldier's Letter  Soldier's Letter  Military Supplies  Clothing and Accessories  Wartime Pillaging and Destruction  Diet and Nutrition  Agriculture and Animal Husbandry  Confederate States of America  Soldier's Pay  Coins and Currency  Finance  Uniforms  
People Walbridge, Charles E. (fl. 1842-1866)  
Place written Harrison's Landing, Virginia
Theme The American Civil War; Slavery & Abolition
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: Theater of War Main Eastern Theater  
Civil War: Unit 100th New York Volunteers, H Company