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| **Joseph Husted**, Corporal, Company K, discharged at U. S. Army Gen. Hosp., Fairfax Seminary, Va., Oct. 24, 1863 | **Joseph Husted**, Corporal, Company K, discharged at U. S. Army Gen. Hosp., Fairfax Seminary, Va., Oct. 24, 1863 | ||
| Disability.\\ | Disability.\\ | ||
| + | **David E. Eldridge**, Private, Company E, mustered out Corporal, July 31, 1865\\ | ||
| **Unknown author**, Company K, writing in //West Jersey Pioneer//\\ | **Unknown author**, Company K, writing in //West Jersey Pioneer//\\ | ||
| **Unknown author**, writing in //The Methodist//\\ | **Unknown author**, writing in //The Methodist//\\ | ||
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| Diary of Alfred H. Buck, Rutgers University Special Collections\\ | Diary of Alfred H. Buck, Rutgers University Special Collections\\ | ||
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| __**11/27/1862**__\\ | __**11/27/1862**__\\ | ||
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| + | "Camp Johnson [Ellicott City, Maryland] 1 | ||
| + | November 27, 1862 | ||
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| + | Dear Cousin, | ||
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| + | It is with pleasure I now sit down to answer your welcome letter which I received from you and was glad to hear from you—but not only glad but happy was I to [hear] from my cousin. Your letter found me well and I am well now and hope these few lines will find you enjoying the same good health. | ||
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| + | It is Thanksgiving day today and we have no drill to do today as I know of but we have been killing all of the hogs that we can catch on the campground, I don’t know how many we have killed. Brother Eddy 2 is out in the town, I believe. If he ain’t, I don’t know where he is but I guess he is a cutting wood for the hospital—that’s were I think he is. I am on guard today for the second time but I don’t have to go on today without some of our boys get sick. So I stay to my tent till some of them call on me. | ||
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| + | I was [glad] to hear that you had a good lovefeast. I would like it so well our here. I never was better satisfied than I am now. I don’t only like it here, but I love it so well that I would not come home to stay if they would let me for I enlisted to stay and I trust in my God that he [will] spare [me] to stay my time out and then to return to my home to my friends once more. | ||
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| + | A soldier’s depiction of a “stockaded” tent. | ||
| + | We have got nice weather once more and I hope we will have it nice for some time for it makes it so bad when it is wet here. We now are stockading our tent today. We have got it most done. It makes it nice. We build it about three [feet] high with boards and then I put our tent on top of the boards and make it [a] good deal bigger. | ||
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| + | Brother Sammy Fleet is sick and he has got the [ ] and he has to go to the hospital again. He has been there once before and now he has to go back again. He sends his best respects to you. All the rest from Bethel is as common now and all is in good spirits, I guess. | ||
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| + | I have gained twenty-three pounds since I [have] been here so that makes the weight 141 pounds. So I told you all the news now so I must bring my short letter to a close. My pen is poor and my ink is pale, but dear cousin, my love can lever fail. | ||
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| + | Give my love to all of the folks. You must write soon and don’t forget. From your cousin, — David E. Eldridge | ||
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| + | Write soon, soon, soon." | ||
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| + | Letter of David E. Eldridge\\ | ||
| + | https://sparedshared22.wordpress.com/2020/12/20/1862-david-e-eldridge-to-lizzie-brick/ | ||
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| "Mor. Thanksgiving Lt Dare goes on scout. We have a Rabbit dinner. I go hunting in afternoon Eve Lt Dare returns with wagon load of goods captured."\\ | "Mor. Thanksgiving Lt Dare goes on scout. We have a Rabbit dinner. I go hunting in afternoon Eve Lt Dare returns with wagon load of goods captured."\\ | ||
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| Diary of Alfred H. Buck, Rutgers University Special Collections\\ | Diary of Alfred H. Buck, Rutgers University Special Collections\\ | ||
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| __**11/28/1862**__\\ | __**11/28/1862**__\\ | ||
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| Diary of Alfred H. Buck, Rutgers University Special Collections\\ | Diary of Alfred H. Buck, Rutgers University Special Collections\\ | ||
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| __**11/29/1862**__\\ | __**11/29/1862**__\\ | ||
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