Letters, Dec. 1861-Jan. 1863.

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Letters, Dec. 1861-Jan. 1863.

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One letter gives a list of resolutions he believes the Park County girls should abide by and include "tender services as clerks, mechanics and tillers of the soil" while the men are serving, and "withhold friendship and love from every able bodied young man who will not enlist". He gives his account of the battles at Fort Henry and Donelson, Pittsburgh Landing and Corinth. In the beginning his letters tell how happy he is to be a soldier and that he could lead that life with no problem. After "walking across a battlefield with hundreds of dead men" he says he could "forever be a man of peace". He describes the food situation in the south and the secesh who are starving. He says his only reason for staying is the pay that is owed him. The last letter he writes discusses the Emancipation Proclamation and his views on why Lincoln wrote it. He deserted April 24, 1863 at St. Louis.

13 letters.

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Miller, Thomas F.

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Indiana resident who joined the 29th Illinois Infantry in 1861. He participated in battle at Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Pittsburgh Landing and Corinth. Prior to joining the army he lived and farmed with Benjamin W. Newton in Parke County, Indiana to whom he wrote the letters. From the description of Letters, Dec. 1861-Jan. 1863. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 52923323 ...

United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 29th. Company H.

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Joseph A. Cody of Kansas served as a private in the Frontier Guard and as U.S. Indian agent at the Upper Platte Agency in Nebraska Territory, May 14, 1861 - Apr. 14, 1862. As a member of the Frontier Guard, a volunteer company commanded by Gen. James H. Lane and composed of men from Kansas and Illinois, Cody, in the spring of 1861, protected Lincoln at the White House in the absence of regular troops. It is likely that Cody obtained his Indian agent appointment as a resu...