Wartime Correspondence

Letter from Cheyney W. Nields, from Catlett's Station, Va, April 20, 1862

Transcribed by Historian Kevin M. Brown . Camp near Catlett’s Station, VaSunday, Apr. 20, 1862Dear Mother, It has been raining hard all day and to make myself comfortable I have been sitting w...

Letter from "B.", from Leesborough, Va, September 3, 1862

FROM THE PENNSYLVANIA RESERVES LEESBOROUGH, Sept. 3, 1862. I gave an account of the march of the First Regiment Reserves to Fredericksburg, and will now give you what has transpired since. We...