Beschreibung:

Civil War Union Letters Related to the Peninsula Campaign, this group contains letters pertaining to the Battles of Yorktown, Williamsburg, and West Point, the letters contain details of the battles, describing the march towards Richmond, seeing the dead on the battlefield, conversing with wounded Confederate POWs, and being shelled in camp, one letter even mentions enjoying the buzzing of shells as they fly overhead and tells of men laughing as they miss and land just a couple hundred yards away, another describes how Confederates "used everything you can think of for shot in their cannon. They used broken flat irons, pieces of chains, dray teeth, and everything," one particularly interesting letter by a sick soldier that stayed behind in Williamsburg tells of his illness noting "there is a great many more things I would say if I saw you but which would not be prudent to put in writing as perhaps someone else besides yourself might read it and would make trouble" he also provides a description of the people and buildings of Williamsburg noting that even the citizens "say that two thirds of the rebel army is nothing but an armed mob taking delight only in destroying property," largest 12 1/2 x 8 in.