Letter, [1862 Feb. 2], Green Pon[d, S.C.] to "My Dear wife."

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Letter, [1862 Feb. 2], Green Pon[d, S.C.] to "My Dear wife."

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Letter, 2 Feb. 1862, Green Pon[d] Station [Colleton County, S.C.] from Summer to his wife [Polly Farr Summer] re camp life and rumors of a truce. Summer reports his belief that peace was at hand because the Union Army was running out of money, expectation that England and France would soon recognize the Confederacy which would force the North to accept a peaceful settlement and open up free trade with foreign nations, "I don't hear of any fighting ... I think the war is coming to a close with the yankey doodles ... we are all looking for peace by the last of the month." Summer scolds his wife for not sending letters, and reports his diet, "we don't get no coffee but we get plenty of every thing [else] beef pork nice crackers ... but we don't get much whiskey to drink" although the captain would sometimes bring a keg from Charleston, "it is worth two dollars a quart in camp ..." Dates are unclear on these letters; Summer's regiment was stationed at Green Pond, S.C. [Colleton County], for several months prior to April 1862; both letters show a date of 2nd of Dec. in which December has been crossed through and replaced with "February." This may represent a single letter.

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Confederate States of America

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During the Civil War, the Confederate States of America issued their own currency notes. These circulated like cash, but were technically bills of credit. At the beginning of the war, they circulated widely, but by the end of the war they had lost nearly all their value. Many of the bills remained in private hands after the war and became collectible as memorabilia. Other bills, which the Union Army had confiscated, were in the hands of the United States War Department; it transferred them to th...

Summer, William Leroy, 1828-1863.

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Confederate soldier, 13th Regiment South Carolina Volunteers, Company H; native of Chapin, S.C.; died of smallpox, 28 Jan.1863, at Guinea Station [Caroline County, Va.?]; son of Joseph "Poor Joe" and Christina Hipp Summer; husband of Polly Farr Summer. From the description of Letter, [1862 Feb. 2], Green Pon[d, S.C.] to "My Dear wife." (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 56083021 ...