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Primary Sources for the 93rd New York State Militia
Herald, July 12, 1864
HEADQUARTERS,
NINETY-THIRD REGIMENT N. G. S. N. Y.,
NEW YORK, July 11, 1864.
Pursuant to requisition of the President of the United States and general orders from Governor Seymour, Commander-in-Chief of the militia of the State of New York, this regiment will leave for one hundred days service in the fortifications at Washington city, on Thursday next or as soon as armed and equipped. Each company will be required to fill all vacancies of commissioned and non-commissioned officers, without delay, substitutes may apply at headquarters, Jefferson market, from nine A. M., to ten P. M. By order. W. R. W. CHAMBERS,
Major and Colonel commanding.
INGERSOLL, Adjutant.
New York Tribune, July 23, 1864
Military Affairs.
The 93d Regiment, N. Y. S. M., commanded by Col. Chambers, left yesterday afternoon for Washington, They number about 200 strong, mostly boys. Two militia regiments, the 77th and the 99th, departed yesterday for Governor's Island, where they will muster into the United States service, and when transportation can be furnished they will leave for Washington.
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LeClear Family Letters, 1862-1863, 1864, Howard County Historical Society
Relay House Aug. 2, 1864
Dear Mother
I received your letter this morning, just as I was going on guard & you may just think I was glad to get it for I dident like to see other boys hand in their letters & me get none. You say you don't see why I have to go on guard being company clerk the reason is that our Reg. is all broken up for part of us are detailed for one part of the State & part for the other. Co. B is kept here hard at work for the Gen. who commandds the Post says that we cant be spared as we do more work than any other around for we are detailed for pickets for the Provost Guard & to guard the deserters & prisoners that he has.
I was out on picket on Sunday with six others of our co. including Sergt. Boyd who is a great friend of mine & who commanded the party our duty was to guard a bridge that crosses over a railroad very small creek but here it is called a river, with a great long name on it that I cant remember. We had a just a fine time of it I can tell you for we only had two on at a time & there were lots of blackberries around so that we could pick those & then plenty of swimming in the river. there are some boys in the company who cannot write & the other night one of them put a letter in my hands & wanted me to answer it while he went on guard it was from his sweet heart & I read the letter & then answered it without ever having known the girl & dident tell me what he wanted to say & read it to him he was highly delighted & said it could not have been better. You asked me what kind of chums I had, they are two very decent & cleanly fellows but I have nothing to do with them except when I clean the tent up with them.
Thursday Aug 4, 1864
Dear Mother
I had to stop the first part all of a sudden to go on guard & have not had a chance to go on until now for I have had to be on guard ever since, for we have so many men detailed to different parts of the State that we have to be on two days & off, & that is very hard on a fellow for if we had a full Reg. we would have one day on & ten off, which is every different from two on & one off. but I expect they will be recalled in a little while & then we will have easy times again. Tell Ed & Kittie I will their letters tomorrow when I do Carrie’s (which I received this morning together with your own most welcome note). Tell Helen that if she don't write to me on Sunday I will give her fits when I get home & then wont go with her to Ill. in a couple of years as I promised to awhile ago. If I don't see that letter of Grandma's coming along in a few days together with some of her thin cookies I shall go distracted. I wish you would send me some good things to eat in a box for they would taste good after having eaten hard tack a that you have to break in pieces with a stone before you can eat it, You can send it to the care of Capt. Adamson & it will come all right. I have not heard from Father yet & I wrote to him a week ago so that I begin to think that he has determined to have nothing to do with me for having come out here. just remind him & tell him to write a few lines
Figure 1: LeClear Family Letters, 1862-1863, 1864, Howard County Historical Society
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Figure 3: LeClear Family Letters, 1862-1863, 1864, Howard County Historical Society
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Figure 5: LeClear Family Letters, 1862-1863, 1864, Howard County Historical Society
Figure 6: LeClear Family Letters, 1862-1863, 1864, Howard County Historical Society
Figure 7: LeClear Family Letters, 1862-1863, 1864, Howard County Historical Society
Figure 8: LeClear Family Letters, 1862-1863, 1864, Howard County Historical Society
Figure 9: LeClear Family Letters, 1862-1863, 1864, Howard County Historical Society
Figure 10: LeClear Family Letters, 1862-1863, 1864, Howard County Historical Society
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