3rd Delaware Infantry - Amputation Notice to Mother

Item LTR-10938

Description

Original Civil War soldier's letter. 1 page, written in period pencil.


City Point, Virginia
4^th Division, 5^th Corps Hospital\June 21, 1864
 
Mrs. Mary Fitten
Cellor Street
Frankfort, PA
 
Dear Ma’am,
 
I have to inform you that your son was wounded on Saturday the 18^th in a charge on the enemy at Petersburg and on Sunday it was found necessary to take off his leg – just below the knee.  It was his right leg.  His wound doing well and he is cheerful.
 
Yours very truly 
Reverend Lawrence D. Krun
Of Meinaville
Montgomery County
New York