From Jerome to Allie, July 27, 1863
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Title
From Jerome to Allie, July 27, 1863
Subject
Peirce, Jerome
Allie
New Milldale, MS.
Description
From Jerome to Allie
Creator
Jerome Peirce
Source
Jerome Peirce Collection, National Park Service
Publisher
HIST 428 (Spring 2020), University of Mary Washington
Date
1863-07-27
Contributor
NPS, Civil War Study Group, Josef Rokus (Transcriber)
Rights
For educational purposes with no commercial use. Courtesy of National Park Service, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania NMP, FRSP 16095-16102 (FRSP-00904).
Format
6.75 X 9.45
6.75 X 9.45
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6.75 X 9.45
Jpg
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
Letter #144
Coverage
Probably New Milldale, MS.
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LETTER TRANSCRIPTION
Monday morning July 27th [1863]
Last eve. after I closed yours, yours of 13th with one from Billerica came to hand and I was of course much interested in all your moves. Lulu is certainly a prize and I hope she will be as good a girl as she seems attractive.
I think, as I before mentioned, that I have all your letters. The mail is sometimes delayed but it comes at last. I receive the “Register” regularly.
I know the draft is making a stir but if the people expect to save and have a country, they must meet it, for those in the field are becoming weary and worn while others have remained with their loved ones at home and have we not such? I wish with all my heart that we were keeping house and could have cousin Lottie with us but it don’t seem so ordered but I trust she will find some pleasant and easy lot. My love to her.
I suppose you have heard ere this the news from Orange. David Miller was shot dead at Port Hudson on picket. Dan’l. Mayo is crazy from [???]. Sad times.
Jos. H. came to see me last eve. Had a drenching rain after I closed my letter last eve. and wet everything thru as my tent blew away.
Your letter came thru in eight days being directed to Cairo. It seemed good to hear so lately.
Must close as I am a little short of paper just now. Am not [sure] where I can buy any. (have plenty of money), but I shall get some by and by.
Shall send with this my “diary”. Am keeping another which Alonzo gave me. [‘Tis] dirty and worn but you will see a little (what with my letters) I’ve been doing.
Jerome
Monday morning July 27th [1863]
Last eve. after I closed yours, yours of 13th with one from Billerica came to hand and I was of course much interested in all your moves. Lulu is certainly a prize and I hope she will be as good a girl as she seems attractive.
I think, as I before mentioned, that I have all your letters. The mail is sometimes delayed but it comes at last. I receive the “Register” regularly.
I know the draft is making a stir but if the people expect to save and have a country, they must meet it, for those in the field are becoming weary and worn while others have remained with their loved ones at home and have we not such? I wish with all my heart that we were keeping house and could have cousin Lottie with us but it don’t seem so ordered but I trust she will find some pleasant and easy lot. My love to her.
I suppose you have heard ere this the news from Orange. David Miller was shot dead at Port Hudson on picket. Dan’l. Mayo is crazy from [???]. Sad times.
Jos. H. came to see me last eve. Had a drenching rain after I closed my letter last eve. and wet everything thru as my tent blew away.
Your letter came thru in eight days being directed to Cairo. It seemed good to hear so lately.
Must close as I am a little short of paper just now. Am not [sure] where I can buy any. (have plenty of money), but I shall get some by and by.
Shall send with this my “diary”. Am keeping another which Alonzo gave me. [‘Tis] dirty and worn but you will see a little (what with my letters) I’ve been doing.
Jerome
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
NOTE 1: The year that this letter was written is not indicated on the letter. However, a review of the calendars for 1862 through 1864 for which Mondays fell on May 27 shows that it must have been written in 1863. That conclusion is confirmed by a comparison of the contents of this letter versus the contents of the letters written before and after this one.
NOTE 2: The “Jos. H.” that Jerome referred to in this letter was Joseph H. Peirce. He enlisted as a Private in Orange, Mass., on August 4, 1862, at age 18. Jerome also enlisted in Orange on the same date, but as a corporal. Jerome was 31 years old at the time. According to the Unit History, Joseph H. Peirce was taken Prisoner of War at Pegram Farm, Virginia, on September 30, 1864, (See Letter No. 227) and he was later exchanged. He was discharged on June 21, 1865. Joseph H. Peirce was the son of Joseph Peirce, one of Jerome’s brothers, and was, therefore, Jerome’s nephew.
NOTE 3: The “Alonzo” Jerome referred to in his letters was Seth Alonzo Ranlett. Ranlett enlisted in Co. B of the 36th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment as a Private on July 24, 1862, at age 22, and he was from Charlestown, Massachusetts. He was promoted to First Sergeant on August 27, 1862, and was commissioned as a First Lieutenant on December 1, 1862. On December 17, 1862, he was appointed Adjutant of the Regiment. He was mustered out “on account of physical disability from disease incurred in the service” on February 20, 1864.
Ranlett was born on March 18, 1840, in Charlestown, Massachusetts, and he died May 21, 1905, in Newton, Massachusetts. Ranlett’s wife was Ellen Peirce Ranlett, with a date of birth of March 22, 1842, and a date of death of January 12, 1914. They were married on January 21, 1864. Ellen Peirce was one of the children of Foster Peirce and his wife Catherine Abby Beaman. Also, Foster Peirce was a brother of Jerome. Therefore, the Ellen that Jerome mentions in his letters was one of Jerome’s nieces, and starting on January 21, 1864, Alonzo was the husband of one of his nieces.
NOTE 1: The year that this letter was written is not indicated on the letter. However, a review of the calendars for 1862 through 1864 for which Mondays fell on May 27 shows that it must have been written in 1863. That conclusion is confirmed by a comparison of the contents of this letter versus the contents of the letters written before and after this one.
NOTE 2: The “Jos. H.” that Jerome referred to in this letter was Joseph H. Peirce. He enlisted as a Private in Orange, Mass., on August 4, 1862, at age 18. Jerome also enlisted in Orange on the same date, but as a corporal. Jerome was 31 years old at the time. According to the Unit History, Joseph H. Peirce was taken Prisoner of War at Pegram Farm, Virginia, on September 30, 1864, (See Letter No. 227) and he was later exchanged. He was discharged on June 21, 1865. Joseph H. Peirce was the son of Joseph Peirce, one of Jerome’s brothers, and was, therefore, Jerome’s nephew.
NOTE 3: The “Alonzo” Jerome referred to in his letters was Seth Alonzo Ranlett. Ranlett enlisted in Co. B of the 36th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment as a Private on July 24, 1862, at age 22, and he was from Charlestown, Massachusetts. He was promoted to First Sergeant on August 27, 1862, and was commissioned as a First Lieutenant on December 1, 1862. On December 17, 1862, he was appointed Adjutant of the Regiment. He was mustered out “on account of physical disability from disease incurred in the service” on February 20, 1864.
Ranlett was born on March 18, 1840, in Charlestown, Massachusetts, and he died May 21, 1905, in Newton, Massachusetts. Ranlett’s wife was Ellen Peirce Ranlett, with a date of birth of March 22, 1842, and a date of death of January 12, 1914. They were married on January 21, 1864. Ellen Peirce was one of the children of Foster Peirce and his wife Catherine Abby Beaman. Also, Foster Peirce was a brother of Jerome. Therefore, the Ellen that Jerome mentions in his letters was one of Jerome’s nieces, and starting on January 21, 1864, Alonzo was the husband of one of his nieces.
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