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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC03523.32.07 |
| From Archive Folder | Collection of Sumner Sayles, H company, 95th regiment, Illinois, infantry |
| Title | Sumner Sayles to Isora Sayles Skinkle describing the regiment's marches and the death of an acquaintance |
| Date | ca. 1862-1865 |
| Author | Sayles, Sumner (fl. 1862-1868) |
| Recipient | Skinkle, Isora Sayles |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Writes to his sister from a camp two miles outside of Memphis, Tennessee. Mentions having some hard marches since they have been there. Comments that they have marched some 200 miles. Thanks her or his father (he does not know which one) for sending him stamps. Informs her about a man named Spencer dying of typhoid. Reports that his captain is on a furlough because he accidentally shot himself in the arm. The envelope has an image of a women and a flag on it. |
| Subjects | Civil War Military History Union Forces Soldier's Letter Union Soldier's Letter Children and Family Travel Typhoid Fever Health and Medical Hospital Disease Injury or Wound Patriotic Stationery and Postal Covers |
| People | Sayles, Sumner (fl. 1862-1868) Sayles, Isora (fl. 1860-1868) |
| Place written | Memphis, Tennessee |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Health & Medicine |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Additional Information | Sumner Sayles enlisted as a private on 9 August 1862. He mustered into "H" Co. IL 95th Infantry. He mustered out on 17 August 1865. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
| Civil War: Unit | 95th Regiment, Illinois, infantry |