Correspondence of James Langstaff Dunn, 1850-1906.

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Correspondence of James Langstaff Dunn, 1850-1906.

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Dunn's letters are chiefly filled with news of family and friends. He describes camp life, food, marches, weather, illnesses among the troops, battles, treatment of the wounded, and his thoughts on the war. Specific topics include learning the duties of an army surgeon; Christmas in Philadelphia, 1861; examination of recruits; the countryside and people of Virginia in the summer of 1862; slaves fleeing the army's advance; treating the wounded from the battles of Slaughter (Cedar) Mountain, 2nd Bull Run, Harpers's Ferry, Gettysburg, the Wauhatchie night attack, Lookout Mountain and the Atlanta Campaign, as well as treating Generals C.C. Auger and Nathaniel Banks and the son of General George Sears Greene. Also opinions on the war, national and Pennsylvania politics, "Copperheads," slavery, and specific generals including John C. Frémont, John Bell Hood, Joseph Hooker, Thomas L. Kane, George B. McClellan, Irvin McDowell, William T. Sherman, and Franz Sigel; investing in a sutlership; the countryside and people of Tennessee; the occupation of Atlanta; starvation in the Georgia countryside; the march to Savannah and through the Carolinas; and mustering out. There are brief mentions of child boot blacks in Philadelphia; inspecting a U.S.C.T. regiment; women among the Confederate dead; released prisoners from Andersonville; southern hatred of Irish immigrants; turmoil in Washington, D.C. after Lincoln's assassination; typhoid fever among the 60th New York, and arrest and court-martial for insulting an officer. The collection also contains a letter to Dunn from Cyrus E. Buckland thanking him for his attentions to his dying brother-in-law, and an 1875 letter from a James Van Voorst describing European trave.

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