Letters to Col. H.M. Hoyt, 1864-1865.

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Letters to Col. H.M. Hoyt, 1864-1865.

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Only one of these letters is addressed to Col. Hoyt but the rest are also presumably to him. The earliest letter (1864 Dec. 26) from Capt. George R. Lennard at Hilton Head, S.C., offers regrets on Hoyt's mustering out and mentions, among other topics, the mustering out of "those men of the 52nd who were mustered in in Feb. 1862," and communications from officers in Columbia, S.C., who are well but "hard up for many of the comforts of life." The second letter (1865 Feb. 11) is from [Tim O. or Timo] Mahoney at Hilton Head, S.C. Mahoney writes of conditions in Savannah, Ga., and offers to write to Hoyt about "the exact condition of a subjugated South" when he returns to Savannah for an extended stay "looking after abandoned property." Two post-war letters, signed "T. Mahoney," are from Savannah. In the first, dated June 9, 1865, Mahoney advises Hoyt that he can make a fortune in cotton in Georgia as "the people are poor, discouraged, all broke, no teams, no Rail Roads" and cotton can be bought cheaply; Mahoney also mentions that he engaged in business in Augusta, Ga. The second letter, dated June 30, 1865, concerns conditions at Savannah and Augusta ("a better whipped or a more subdued people never lived"), the condition of the railroads, the cotton market and possible confiscations, and other matters.

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United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 52nd (1861-1865)

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Lennard, George R.

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Mahoney, Tim O.

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United States. Army

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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...

Hoyt, Henry M. (Henry Martyn), 1830-1892

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American lawyer, politician, and author. From the description of Letter signed : Harrisburg, Penna., to Hon. Wayne MacVeagh, 1881 05 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269552023 Henry Martyn Hoyt was a lieutenant colonel of the 52nd Pennsylvania Volunteers. He was captured at Fort Johnson, S.C., but a prisoner exchange allowed him to return to the 52nd until the end of the Civil War, when he was brevetted brigadier general. He became the governor of Pennsylvania and served i...