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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
LeClear Family Letters, 1862-1863, 1864, Howard County Historical Society
Relay House Aug 5, 1864
Dear Carrie
I received your most welcome letter yesterday & hasten to reply to it. for if I don't do so now I wont have a chance again in two or three days at least for we are having more men put on special detail every day & as Co. B. boys are smart they get detailed by the Gen. in preference to any other, so that our company is sadly thinned out we have twenty able to do duty now, & of these fifteen are wanted every day so that you see it is the exception & not the rule when we are off duty. I was off yesterday & went swimming & in a place where I thought it was over my head I struck bottom & it happened to be on a stone & I thought I was way over my head & dident think about my touching bottom. I wish you could have seen me strike out for shore it was just a caution & in a couple of strokes my hand struck the bottom. I never felt more foolish in my life than I did when I got up & looked out in the creek for the turtle. I wrote a love letter day before yesterday for one of our boys, I tell you it was rich [.] I never enjoyed myself more than when I was XXXXXXX scribbling for him. he made it very sentimental after the Ledger style & then he seemed to know that it was rather silly for he would make a sort of half excuse for it to me at every sentence. when I am off guard I am scribbling pretty much all the time either for the Capt. or some letter for one of the boys. You talk of my having so much vanity that you are afraid to tell me what people say of me. now you know as well as anything that if ever there was a person perfectly devoid of such a thing as vanity that person was me & now you go & say I have too much. I know what it is for, you are jealous & don't want me to have a good opinion of myself for fear I cant see the supreme goodness mess of yourself. now you needent feel scared for I o shall ever be conscious of the value elder sister. I have often heard you speak of the inconvenience of living [in] your trunk but it is a little more so to live in a knapsack & have a haversack for a closet to contain all of your fifine china crockery, & eatables for three of four days, our food has been wretched for three of four days back for we have had sour bread instead of hard tack for some of the boys grumbled at the tack because it was so hard & now they have the fine sour bread instead. I have remember that I had about eleven dollars when I started from home & now I have somewhere in the neighborhood of two. part had to go for susistance while were on Baltimore Heights part for ink, pens & paper & one thing & another but the best part has gone I don't know where for I never spent it. it probably got in the hands of Co. I. boys for they are the […] thieves of the Reg. One night while I was sleeping in the guardhouse one of them stole a shoelace from my shoe & when they do that they are pretty mean. Please write as often as possible & don't wait for answers.
Your loving brother
Louis LeClear
West Jersey Press, August 10, 1864
FROM THE EMERGENCY MEN.
FORT DIX, August 6th 1864.
Editor West Jersey Press - SIR - You have no doubt heard through other sources accounts from Co. A 1st N. J. Militia, which so promptly responded to the call of Gov, Parker, and feel proud that Camden Co. was the first to step forward in this patriotic enterprise, and furnish such a noble body of loyal men for the emergency. Our men without one exception have ever been ready to respond to any order from Gen. Tyler, no matter for what destination, if a command came to move to the front every man would be at his post only too glad to offer his life in behalf of this country. The body of old troops stationed at this post were hurried forward to the front as soon as we arrived, and are now rendering efficient service in the field, men of experience have thus been allowed to return, to their duties in the front where they are absolutely required, while the militia are being drilled and disciplined in fortifications and important points along the border, so they may be ready and competent to repel the invader. Our company I think without exaggeration can boast of as fine a set of men as were over mustered into the service. Capt. Lee is an old veteran, has been tried in the crucible and found to be true, brave and loyal. Lt: Wm. C. Shinn is universally liked, he was wounded in the fight at Chancellorsville, which deprived him of an eye, his courage is undisputed. Our 2d Lt. Charles H. Kain, though inexperienced, is remarkably well posted and has gained the confidence of the members of Co. A, and his ability cannot be questioned. Thus Co. A, under such efficient officers, has become remarkably well drilled and disciplined, and in case of another emergency will be ready and thoroughly qualified to take any post that may be assigned to them. Fort Dix is situated near tho Relay House on a high bluff at the junction of the Washington branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road, garrisoned by a portion of Co A; and an efficient body of New York Artillerymen, who did good service in the fight at Monocacy, is mounted with six James' rifled 12 pounders, and one, 24 pound howitzer, which stand like faithful monitors ready at any moment to thunder forth the alarm, and scatter death. among the ranks of the invader. The river Patapsco lies about a quarter of a mile from the fort and it is spaned by & massive stone bridge, the country is wild and hilly, and a view from the parapet, to those who appreciate a glimpse at nature is a rare treat.
We are not the only troops stationed at this junction, the 93d New York, hundred days men, and twelve hundred emergency men from Delaware are encamped near us. Well has she been called the diamond State, her brilliancy shall still light up the pages of history with an undying lustre.
God bless her rocky Brandywine,
Where patriot fathers fought and died,
And heroes blood poured forth like wine,
And crimson turned the crystal tide.
She has done nobly in this emergency and with her sister states is ever ready to stand by the old flag. The sentiment of the people in this portion of Maryland is generally secession. We have met with some however who still cling to the Union. The family of Mr. Thomas Donelson, who reside in a beautiful country seat near the Relay House, are devoted loyalists and furnish tho boys with fruit and vegetables in abundance. Mr. Donelson is an eminent Baltimore Counsellor and his kindness will long be remembered by the members of Co. A. Our Guard House is filled with disloyal men and spies, a special guard is detailed for the purpose of keeping them secure, but notwithstanding the vigilance of the officers and men two have escaped, one complained of being sick and then taken out of the Guard House and relieved of his hand-cuffs looked remarkably droopy but in an instant almost he was over the fence and down a precipice, some 50 or 60 feet, the sentry fired, a search was made, but it has since been decided that he took the under ground Rail Road.
You have heard some unfavorable accounts of Co. A. but from sources that flavor strongly of Copper—reports have been circulated by certain newspapers speaking of the departure of the thirty days men as a mere excursion, a seasonable pleasure trip, of their “luxuriating at the Relay House,” &c., &c., now men who publish such things should certainly not object to being published themselves, because in doing a great and good act it is a universal maxim among men (of Morry's stripe) to let the world know what they were done for the exaltation of the race and the glory of mankind, the world, of course, being unable to discover their virtuous acts. Our friend the editor of the Democrat can sit in his editorial sanctum and cry to the world, Gentlemen I told you so, this Government has been conducted upon wrong principles, is conducted upon wrong principles, it has made a great mistake in prosecuting this war for the establishment of the Union, then indeed it is not necessary, if the democratic party had the power to-day [if it only had the power!] -you would see a different state of things, the Government would be conducted upon sound principles and the old ship of state would ride peacefully upon the waters of the political sea—this is the shout of the democracy, it is thus they raise a great furore at home a great hue and cry about nothing, slandering the President, spitting out the vile venom of copperheadism, endeavoring to poison the minds of our people and create a rebellion at the north. Thus it is that they give confidence to traitors and increase the enemies of the Government when they owe their very life to its existence. — Such is the political insanity that affects a majority of the Democratic party, alas that Morry should become its victim still you can hear them repeating
“Alas the age of virtuous men has past, And we are deep in that of mere pretence— Men have grown to old to be sincere, And we to wise to word them.”
CORP. CO. A.
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Figure 1: LeClear Family Letters, 1862-1863, 1864, Howard County Historical Society
Herald, August 12, 1864
THE NINETY-THIRD REGIMENT.
NINETY-THIRD REGIMENT N. G. S. N. Y.,
New York, August 11, 1864.
The Ninety-third regiment is now in the field, recognized by the government, and guarding the Most important stations between here and Washington—viz: at Annapolis, at the Relay House, at the Grand Stone bridge, &c. The Ninety-third is mustered in its on on military organization, for the term of one hundred days. The one hundred days' men are exempt from the draft. Colonel Chambers is now in this city, by orders from headquarters, to recruit this regiment to its maximum number, and he earnestly calls upon all good, able bodied men to assist him in the good cause. All recruits will report to Canteen John W. Cramp, recruiting officer, at Military Hall, No. 196 Bowery, and will receive equipments, rations, &c., as soon as mustered, at Second regiment armory, corner of Hall place and Seventh street, and be immediately forwarded to the regiment, By order,
W. R. W. CHAMBERS, Colonel commanding
Ninety-third regiment N. G. S. N. Y.
Figure 2: LeClear Family Letters, 1862-1863, 1864, Howard County Historical Society
Figure 3: LeClear Family Letters, 1862-1863, 1864, Howard County Historical Society
Figure 4: LeClear Family Letters, 1862-1863, 1864, Howard County Historical Society
Figure 5: LeClear Family Letters, 1862-1863, 1864, Howard County Historical Society
Figure 6: LeClear Family Letters, 1862-1863, 1864, Howard County Historical Society
LeClear Family Letters, 1862-1863, 1864, Howard County Historical Society
that let us know that the Cavalry was at hand, and a minute afterward they marched up to us, headed by a Lieut. who took command and formed a skirmish line, so that we were able to sweep the whole wood at once. We managed through trampling down the under brush with our fingers on the trigger ready to shot the first Johnny that should show himself, but no Rebs were to be seen and on getting to the other side of the wood the Lieut dismissed us saying that his detachment was large enough to handle all the Rebs. around there. We did not like this very much as we had just had enough of the fun to make us want more. There was no help for it however & we set our faces homeward. Arriving at headquarters we resumed the old routine nothing of any importance to vary they m[…] till our term of […]
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