From Foster Peirce to Brother Joseph, June 10, 1864
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Title
From Foster Peirce to Brother Joseph, June 10, 1864
Subject
Peirce, Foster
Peirce, Joseph
Boston, MA.
Description
From Foster Peirce to Brother Joseph
Creator
Foster Peirce
Source
Jerome Peirce Collection, National Park Service
Publisher
HIST 428 (Spring 2020), University of Mary Washington
Date
1864-06-10
Contributor
NPS, Civil War Study Group, Jack Phend (Transcriber)
Rights
For educational purposes with no commercial use. Courtesy of National Park Service, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania NMP, FRSP 16095-16102 (FRSP-00904).
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
Letter #223
Coverage
Boston, MA.
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Boston, June 10th, ‘64
Br. (Brother) Joseph,
Your favour of the 5th [of June] was rec’d [received] on Tuesday last and I should have replied to you ‘fore this, had I not have written you on Saturday, by which you was made acquainted with my recent [letter] corresponding with your own. As we were agreed, I did not deem a reply necessary. I will say however, that the time flied. One week from next Sunday is probably the same time I should have named, had it have been left with me.
I cannot say to you now how many of us will come up, but I and my wife shall go and perhaps some or many of the family.
I think I may write you again early in the week. In [the] meantime, if you hear from Joseph Henry, or anything from the Army, please write.
I will say, we rec’d [received] a letter from Allie last evening informing us of the rect. [receipt] of [the] letter from you and saying she intended to go to Orange the middle of next week. She says he[r] health is better.
I can add nothing more of interest at this time except, to say, my family are pretty well. Alonzo, I think, is gaining slowly.
With best wishes to you all, I am yours as ever
F. Peirce
Br. (Brother) Joseph,
Your favour of the 5th [of June] was rec’d [received] on Tuesday last and I should have replied to you ‘fore this, had I not have written you on Saturday, by which you was made acquainted with my recent [letter] corresponding with your own. As we were agreed, I did not deem a reply necessary. I will say however, that the time flied. One week from next Sunday is probably the same time I should have named, had it have been left with me.
I cannot say to you now how many of us will come up, but I and my wife shall go and perhaps some or many of the family.
I think I may write you again early in the week. In [the] meantime, if you hear from Joseph Henry, or anything from the Army, please write.
I will say, we rec’d [received] a letter from Allie last evening informing us of the rect. [receipt] of [the] letter from you and saying she intended to go to Orange the middle of next week. She says he[r] health is better.
I can add nothing more of interest at this time except, to say, my family are pretty well. Alonzo, I think, is gaining slowly.
With best wishes to you all, I am yours as ever
F. Peirce
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES (Josef Rokus)
NOTE 1: F. Peirce was Foster Peirce. He was the brother of Joseph Peirce, to whom this letter is addressed, and Jerome.
NOTE 2: This letter is one of several letters that were sent among family members to arrange the details of the funeral service that was held in Orange, Massachusetts, on Sunday, June 19, 1864, with Rev. Eli Ballou officiating.
NOTE 3: The word “flied” is an acceptable past tense of the word “fly”, although it has been replaced with the word “flew” today.
NOTE 4: The “Joseph Henry” was Joseph Peirce’s son. He is referred to in many of Jerome’s letters but usually as “J.H.” or “Jos. H.” and at least once as “Joe.” One letter refers to him as “Joseph, Jr.” He enlisted as a private in Orange, Massachusetts, on August 4, 1862, at age 18. Jerome also enlisted in Orange on the same date. According to the Unit History, Joseph H. Peirce was taken Prisoner of War at Pegram Farm, Virginia, on September 30, 1864, and he was later exchanged. He survived the war and was discharged on June 21, 1865. Based on the fact that Jerome, Joseph and Foster Peirce were all brothers, he was Jerome’s nephew.
NOTE 5: In Foster’s reference to hearing anything from the Army, he might have been referring to any news about Joseph Henry or about Jerome.
NOTE 1: F. Peirce was Foster Peirce. He was the brother of Joseph Peirce, to whom this letter is addressed, and Jerome.
NOTE 2: This letter is one of several letters that were sent among family members to arrange the details of the funeral service that was held in Orange, Massachusetts, on Sunday, June 19, 1864, with Rev. Eli Ballou officiating.
NOTE 3: The word “flied” is an acceptable past tense of the word “fly”, although it has been replaced with the word “flew” today.
NOTE 4: The “Joseph Henry” was Joseph Peirce’s son. He is referred to in many of Jerome’s letters but usually as “J.H.” or “Jos. H.” and at least once as “Joe.” One letter refers to him as “Joseph, Jr.” He enlisted as a private in Orange, Massachusetts, on August 4, 1862, at age 18. Jerome also enlisted in Orange on the same date. According to the Unit History, Joseph H. Peirce was taken Prisoner of War at Pegram Farm, Virginia, on September 30, 1864, and he was later exchanged. He survived the war and was discharged on June 21, 1865. Based on the fact that Jerome, Joseph and Foster Peirce were all brothers, he was Jerome’s nephew.
NOTE 5: In Foster’s reference to hearing anything from the Army, he might have been referring to any news about Joseph Henry or about Jerome.
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Foster Peirce 1864, From Foster Peirce to Brother Joseph, June 10, 1864, HIST 428 (Spring 2020), University of Mary Washington
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