Manuscripts

Letter to B.H. Walrath (grandfather) from Camp Anderson, Washington DC

Description: Colyer's Civil War correspondence, chiefly his letters to his parents, siblings, and friends in Chittenango. The letters discuss war, political, and family news and contain detailed factual accounts of the camp life -- rations, barracks, soldiers' finances, conscripts and substitutes, desertions, drinking, courts martial, hospital, prisons, demobilization, etc.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1863 August 8.
Call number: mssHM 28943-29056
Creator: Colyer, Henry I (approximately 1841-)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Clifford Couch Colyer, 1966-1970.
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Letter to Mother from Camp Anderson, Washington DC

Manuscripts

Colyer's Civil War correspondence, chiefly his letters to his parents, siblings, and friends in Chittenango. The letters discuss war, political, and family news and contain detailed factual accounts of the camp life -- rations, barracks, soldiers' finances, conscripts and substitutes, desertions, drinking, courts martial, hospital, prisons, demobilization, etc.

mssHM 28943-29056

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