From Jerome to Allie, April 12, 1863
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Title
From Jerome to Allie, April 12, 1863
Subject
Peirce, Jerome
Allie
Camp Dick Robinson
Bryantsville, KY.
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
1863-04-12
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
6.15 X 9
5.75 X 8.75
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5.75 X 8.75
Jpg
Language
English
Type
Text
Identifier
Letter #100
Coverage
Camp Dick Robinson near Bryantsville, KY.
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LETTER TRANSCRIPTION
Sunday morning [April 12, 1863]
Thought I would add a word this morn [morning]. I understand we are to be paid every two months. Perhaps I will send home more by and by. I said I should keep $10.00. I have twelve with the sale I mentioned but got me a pr. of shoes which cost $1.50 so with one or two other things will have me about $10.00. Shall be very careful and will send enough for stamps if I can’t get them here.
Speaking of promotion, I should like a commission and would apply if I could see my way clear. What do the friends say? If I left this Regt. [Regiment] should have to be regularly discharged and there is little show here. I have won a good reputation so far and influence goes a great ways. I am not indifferent but shall make the most of my lot here, but the way to come at it where there is so much rivalry. Am feeling nicely this morn [morning], a beautiful spring morn. I hope you will enjoy much this day and receive strength, spiritually and bodily.
Found these peach blossoms on the ground as I came from washing.
As ever your
Jerome
Am weighing 135 pounds and started from Cin. [Cincinnati] with a total load of 58 lbs! just as I march. Of course ‘tis much reduced now.
Sunday morning [April 12, 1863]
Thought I would add a word this morn [morning]. I understand we are to be paid every two months. Perhaps I will send home more by and by. I said I should keep $10.00. I have twelve with the sale I mentioned but got me a pr. of shoes which cost $1.50 so with one or two other things will have me about $10.00. Shall be very careful and will send enough for stamps if I can’t get them here.
Speaking of promotion, I should like a commission and would apply if I could see my way clear. What do the friends say? If I left this Regt. [Regiment] should have to be regularly discharged and there is little show here. I have won a good reputation so far and influence goes a great ways. I am not indifferent but shall make the most of my lot here, but the way to come at it where there is so much rivalry. Am feeling nicely this morn [morning], a beautiful spring morn. I hope you will enjoy much this day and receive strength, spiritually and bodily.
Found these peach blossoms on the ground as I came from washing.
As ever your
Jerome
Am weighing 135 pounds and started from Cin. [Cincinnati] with a total load of 58 lbs! just as I march. Of course ‘tis much reduced now.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
NOTE 1: Although this letter does not explicitly indicate the date on which it was written nor the location from where it was written, based on the text, date and location of the previous letter (No. 99) and the text of this letter, this letter was written on April 12, 1863, while Jerome was at Camp Dick Robinson, Kentucky.
NOTE 2: Regarding the “sale” referred to in this letter, he was probably referring to the sale of his watch a few weeks earlier because in his letter of February 11, 1863, to Allie (Letter No. 59) he wrote, “Have not told me if you got all the money from the sale of my watch.”
NOTE 1: Although this letter does not explicitly indicate the date on which it was written nor the location from where it was written, based on the text, date and location of the previous letter (No. 99) and the text of this letter, this letter was written on April 12, 1863, while Jerome was at Camp Dick Robinson, Kentucky.
NOTE 2: Regarding the “sale” referred to in this letter, he was probably referring to the sale of his watch a few weeks earlier because in his letter of February 11, 1863, to Allie (Letter No. 59) he wrote, “Have not told me if you got all the money from the sale of my watch.”
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Reference
Jerome Peirce 1863, From Jerome to Allie, April 12, 1863, HIST 428 (Spring 2020), University of Mary Washington
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