Letters written by Andrew Robeson, Jr. of Lenox, Mass. from 1864-65 from various locations in Virginia during the Civil War. An 1862 graduate of Harvard (science), Robeson served as a first lieutenant, adjutant, and later captain in the 1st N.Y. Engineers. His letters home to his family in Lenox and Boston fron Bermuda Hundred, Petersburg, Aiken's Landing, and Varina, Va. during the war describe camp life, inactivity while waiting for assignments, and the regiment's construction of batteries, gun mounts, and other military works. Following the war, his letters describe the building and repairing of bridges and other engineering projects while waiting for the regiment to be disbanded in July of 1865.
