Letters and diary entries from the corresponding day in the Civil War posted from the holdings of Special Collections, University of Virginia Library.
Saturday, June 16, 2012
1862 June 17
June 17 1862 10 Regt mass Vol
Monroe thayer Co. C
My kind Friend Guardden
I hope you ar Well and
all your family. there
is no Postage stamp Down here
and I Wish you Would Send Some
to me and you Will See
A bout 20 Dolars Gowing
up to you one of these
Dayes I Supose you ar
Discureged But you must
not Be you must Writ
Mee alletter I am home
Sick and you must Writ
mee a letter and you must
Let mee know A Bout farm
tell meee How Dick and
Charley is and you must
tell William how had
ought to thank his
[page 2]
Father for not leting
him go to War and [word lined out] now
I Wish my Self that I
had not Inlisted my
Self but now I [word lined out] ame
here and must Stay
till it is over. I now
Will tell you how to
Diricet A letter to mee
and you must Send
nice one now I Will
tell you. Gen Keyes Corps.
D. Armey.. Gen.. Cough [word lined out]
Division.. Gen.. Devens
Brigade..
Monroe Thayer Co C
10 Regt. mass Vol.
Good By
[transcript by Mary Roy Dawson Edwards]
MSS 828
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