29th Massachusetts Infantry - Medal of Honor

Item LTR-6998

Description

1 page, war dated and written in period ink.


Assonet, Freetown
October 12th 1864

My Dear Sir,

Yours has just been received. I expect to start for the Regiment about the middle of next week. I saw your mother yesterday. She said she had just received a letter from you and was going to write to you. I hear that Pizer is at Junction sick. I shall wish you to help me make out my ordnance account. Will you please get the necessary papers from the regimental desk? If I consult my own feeling, I shall leave the service and come home when I get my accounts settled. It is probable I shall unless they try to crowd me. I am too feeble to do duty in the field and am resolved to ask no favors and refuse to accept the pension of about one dollar per day I can get from the government on retiring. If I do not convince this generation I shall all the succeeding that I am and ever have been actuated by the highest and most honorable motives and poorest principles.

A few days since I purchased the remnant of the wood land between my home lot and the rail road and now the rail road bounds me on the east.

Where I get out of the service, I propose to enclose the entire wood lot and a part of the pasture for a Deer Park and stock it with deer and goats.

John Smith has commenced to get our winter firewood by thinning out the wood lot leaving the chestnut and largest white and black oaks. I propose to have a good carriage drive laid out through it so that I can go in near the North /West corner and go nearly to the rail road and come out near the South west corner.

I am glad to hear that the Black Horse still lives. Now can I get from City Point to the Regiment? If McQuillan is at City Point, I can get a horse.

Yours, etc.

Ebenezer W. Pierce