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Collection Reference Number GLC03523.14.03
From Archive Folder Collection of Dolphus Damuth, D company, 29th regiment, Wisconsin, infantry 
Title Dolphus Damuth to John Damuth gives an account of the boat ride across the Mississippi River and of being on guard duty along the river
Date 9 November 1862
Author Damuth, Dolphus (fl. 1839-1913)  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Encloses his letter of 7 November, which he thought lost, and gives an account of the boat ride across the Mississippi River mentioned in the earlier letter. Tells stories of being on guard duty along the river. The men are nervous and there are repeated scares throughout the night - one soldier shoots at a man who runs away, and two other soldiers accidentally shoot at an ox. Mentions a foraging expedition led by their colonel from which "20 mules 8 horses 2 greys on a buggi 2 loads of corn 4 Sesech prisoners and lots of traps" were brought into camp. Damuth also goes on a foraging expedition to a deserted plantation where he and other soldiers steal livestock and corn. He describes a two hundred acre cotton field behind the house and encloses a piece of cotton for his family.
Subjects Civil War  Military History  Union Forces  Union Soldier's Letter  Soldier's Letter  Steamboat  Transportation  Travel  Agriculture and Animal Husbandry  Confederate States of America  Wartime Pillaging and Destruction  Diet and Nutrition  Prisoner of War  Cotton  
People Damuth, Dolphus (fl. 1839-1913)  Damuth, John (fl. 1862-1865)  
Place written Camp Gill, Mississippi
Theme The American Civil War; Agriculture; Children & Family
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 Brother  
Civil War: Theater of War Main Western Theater  
Civil War: Unit 29th Wisconsin Infantry, D company