211th Pennsylvania Infantry

Item LTR-8541

Description

Original Civil War soldier's letter. 2 pages, written in period ink.


Camp of the 211th In Front of Petersburg
January 1, 1865

Friend Barnes,

I wish you and all the rest of the folks a happy New Years. I guess you began to think I had forgotten you but I had not quite yet. I was in the hospital about 4 weeks with the fever and ague which gave me a pretty hard pill. But I got better after a while and then I was detailed for guard around the convalescent camp. I was there about 3 weeks and had just got good Winter [quarters] built and one night at 10 o’clock we had orders to be ready at 5 o’clock to get aboard a boat to go to our regiment and I arrived here last Thursday night. It rained when we was coming up here and I [caught] a bad cold and have a bad cough. But I will get well for it is a hard place to be sick here. Well there is not much news to write. The Johnnies come in most every night. Night before last there was 125 come into our lines. There is a little snow on the ground here and that be pretty cold.

Well I don’t think of anything more to write. Give my love to all the folks. Please write soon and [send] all the news. Excuse this short letter. Burt is well.

Yours Truly,
N. C. Taylor