From Jerome to Allie, September 10, 1862
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Title
From Jerome to Allie, September 10, 1862
Subject
Peirce, Jerome
Allie
Leesboro (Near Washington D.C.
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
1862-09-10
Contributor
NPS, Civil War Study Group, Donald Pfanz (Transcriber)
Rights
For educational purposes with no commercial use. Courtesy of National Park Service, Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania NMP, FRSP 16095-16102 (FRSP-00904).
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Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
Letter #11
Coverage
Leesboro (Near Washington D.C.
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Review of the 36th Regt. Mass Vol.
Leesboro’ 10 Sept.
My dear Allie,
Just a moment to write as a man returns to W tonight. A tedious march of 10 miles, a hard county, but well. I came in, did not fall out only dispensed with gun and have[r]sack for a short distance. Lame of Course but shall come out all right. The Boys are well, and “Game”. Our tents are picked [sic] and H Mayo is with me tent mate. (No mail tonight after all but will say a word) We are now seeing the beginning of Soldiers life but my mind has been prepared in full so far. We must shorten our knapsack some, and may send home somethings, the Orange boys together, and we may not. We can’t endure it all, and no soldier out here of the old Regs pretends to.
We are on a gentle eminence with woods around, with a Michigan Reg on the same ground, and others close by that we haven’t learned.
Our Col is a man. Carried a musket for tired ones a good deal of the way.
I will mail a paper picked up on the road and you will think it looks like it[.] There is a Compliment for the 36th in it. Came through “Pennsylvania Avenue”, the great Street of W. and had a view of the Capitol and Patent Office. A fine street, but the outside of the City is repulsive in the extreme and such a country for dust! You can have but little idea of it for our worst roads, some in South Boston and Dorchester come nearest to it. We are among neutrals or “Secesh,” and see little enthusiasm for Yankees, but we are not intimidated and mean to gain strength for the Conflict. You will hear exciting reports &c. the rebels in Penna but it is looked upon as a desperate game, and the crash will come soon, for the troops coming in by thousands, and a few cavalry will fit them for the conflict.
I trust you are well, and our little Lulu. Kiss her many times. Keep up a brave heart, for you are a Soldiers wife, and he is proud to feel, through hardship and trial, that you know little of, he is doing a little perhaps to better your lot and the children to[?] come. I wrote Murray from W. You must write for the present, to the other friends, for we [know] not from one hour to another where we will be, and of course we shall be tired, and worn, but shall improve every moment as we camp, for I love to write. I heard on the road that the 39th Mass. had reached W. Is Frank moved yet, tell me when he does. Write soon, have not recd. letters yet.
Must get a little rest, while the Coffee is doing so a kiss and ever your loving husband
Jerome P.
We are directly North of W. 10 miles—not on the map by name, but towards Leesburg
Leesboro’ 10 Sept.
My dear Allie,
Just a moment to write as a man returns to W tonight. A tedious march of 10 miles, a hard county, but well. I came in, did not fall out only dispensed with gun and have[r]sack for a short distance. Lame of Course but shall come out all right. The Boys are well, and “Game”. Our tents are picked [sic] and H Mayo is with me tent mate. (No mail tonight after all but will say a word) We are now seeing the beginning of Soldiers life but my mind has been prepared in full so far. We must shorten our knapsack some, and may send home somethings, the Orange boys together, and we may not. We can’t endure it all, and no soldier out here of the old Regs pretends to.
We are on a gentle eminence with woods around, with a Michigan Reg on the same ground, and others close by that we haven’t learned.
Our Col is a man. Carried a musket for tired ones a good deal of the way.
I will mail a paper picked up on the road and you will think it looks like it[.] There is a Compliment for the 36th in it. Came through “Pennsylvania Avenue”, the great Street of W. and had a view of the Capitol and Patent Office. A fine street, but the outside of the City is repulsive in the extreme and such a country for dust! You can have but little idea of it for our worst roads, some in South Boston and Dorchester come nearest to it. We are among neutrals or “Secesh,” and see little enthusiasm for Yankees, but we are not intimidated and mean to gain strength for the Conflict. You will hear exciting reports &c. the rebels in Penna but it is looked upon as a desperate game, and the crash will come soon, for the troops coming in by thousands, and a few cavalry will fit them for the conflict.
I trust you are well, and our little Lulu. Kiss her many times. Keep up a brave heart, for you are a Soldiers wife, and he is proud to feel, through hardship and trial, that you know little of, he is doing a little perhaps to better your lot and the children to[?] come. I wrote Murray from W. You must write for the present, to the other friends, for we [know] not from one hour to another where we will be, and of course we shall be tired, and worn, but shall improve every moment as we camp, for I love to write. I heard on the road that the 39th Mass. had reached W. Is Frank moved yet, tell me when he does. Write soon, have not recd. letters yet.
Must get a little rest, while the Coffee is doing so a kiss and ever your loving husband
Jerome P.
We are directly North of W. 10 miles—not on the map by name, but towards Leesburg
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Jerome Peirce 1862, From Jerome to Allie, September 10, 1862, HIST 428 (Spring 2020), University of Mary Washington
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