Correspondence, 1862-1865.

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Correspondence, 1862-1865.

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Letters to family members dating from Foote's entry into the army until his discharge. Topics including training around Washington, D.C., service at Suffolk, Petersburg, and Richmond, Va., and Folly and Charleston, S.C.; the capture of Fort Fisher; convalescence in military hospitals near Wilmington and New Bern, N.C.; camp life; confiscation of southern property; conscription of blacks; desertion; disease; health conditions; furloughs; morale; morals; prisoners; and transportation. There are a few letters from a cousin, Daniel P. Sanford, also a Union soldier, while camped at New Bern and Carolina City, N.C., relating to camp life and low pay.

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Union soldier with the 117th Regiment, New York Infantry, from Utica (Oneida Co.), N.Y. From the description of Correspondence, 1862-1865. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19647089 ...

Sanford, Daniel P.

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