Letters, September 27 and October 5, 1862, April 14, 1863.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Letters, September 27 and October 5, 1862, April 14, 1863.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/436775745

Three letters to Pickel's unnamed brother, with a note at the end of the October 5 letter to Pickel's wife Matilda. Recounts camp life with a specific schedule, marching eight miles in an Easter snowstorm, and a troop review by Abraham Lincoln in April 1863.

3 items

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7531413

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

Related Entities

There are 6 Entities related to this resource.

Hooker, Joseph, 1814-1879

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fg4gnh (person)

Hooker was born in Hadley, Massachusetts, the grandson of a captain in the American Revolutionary War. He was of entirely English ancestry, all of which had been in New England since the early 1600s. His initial schooling was at the local Hopkins Academy. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1837, ranked 29th out of a class of 50, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 1st U.S. Artillery. His initial assignment was in Florida fighting in the second of the Seminole War...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tz44c1 (person)

Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Pickel, Matilda, fl. 1863.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68w6rjt (person)

Pickel, Adam H., ca. 1838-1863.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6865v12 (person)

Pickel, a Pennsylvanian, enlisted as a private in Company G, 68th Pennsylvania Infantry on August 26, 1862. He died at Gettysburg on July 12, 1863 from wounds received during the battle. From the description of Letters, September 27 and October 5, 1862, April 14, 1863. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 436775745 ...

United States. Army

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6km312r (corporateBody)

The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...