1861 CIVIL WAR ERA SOLDIER LETTER CAMP JACKSON WILLIAMSPORT MD CHAS MANNING

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1861 CIVIL WAR ERA SOLDIER LETTER CAMP JACKSON WILLIAMSPORT MD CHAS MANNING :
$76.00

Up for sale is a vintage Civil War Era soldier\'s letter datelined Camp Jackson, Williamsport, Maryland, January 18, 1862. Letter is between brothers, written by Charles Manning, Company B, 13th Massachusetts Volunteers. I had the letter transcribed by jkpaper27305 and it reads as follows:..Dear Brother, I received your kind letter the 16th & was much pleased to hear from you once more & to hear that you were all as well as usual. You will see by the date of this letter that we have got back to our old Quarters in Williamsport, together with all the rest of the Regt. We left Hancock the 2nd of this month and came down on Canal Boats, which was not very hard travelling, altho it was mighty cold. We got into town at 8 o\'clock in the evening, marched up to the building that we used when on Provost Guard, and stopped there for the night. The other 3 Companies turned into a Church. In the morning we all went to Camp, where we found plenty of work to do in getting ready & putting up our tents It was not more than 3 or 4 days after we got back that Jackson, the Rebel Gen\'l, marched into Bath with quite a large force, and drove 4 or 5 Companies of the 39th Illinois Regt. out of Town, not giving them time to carry off their knapsacks or anything else, except their rifles. The rest of the Regt. were just on the other side of the River from Hancock, and so when they found that they were attacked, they were scared to death, and what could not get onto the flat boats, tried to ford the river, & in that way 4 were drowned. As to the rest of the story, you have probablyseen the account of it in the papers, and so I will say no more about it, for you know, John, that I am not much of a Blower, but had rather fill my letter up with something else. But this I will say, that we did not like it very well to think that we had to come away before we had seen any fighting at all, and just as there was going to be a brush.I was never more surprised in my life than to hear of Mr. Whiton\'s death, altho I saw his death in the journal a day or two before I got your letter. I know that you wrote howsick he was, but I thought that after all that, he would get well again. You wrote in your letter that you guessed I little thought when I went away that he would be the one of the two that would be taken away so soon. I will assure you that it is so, for he looked stout and rugged then & likely to live a long time, but as you say, life is uncertain & it comes upon us when we little think it. I told Lieut. Neal the next morning, and he was very much surprised indeed. He said that he thought him a very nice man & one that was respected by all who knew him. I told him to please tell all the old City Guardand he said he would. We are having quite an easy time of it at present, having nothing to do but eat, drink & sleep. You must remember that a detachment of our Co. are doing the Provost Guard duty yet, and so we that are in Camp do not have any Guard duty to do, and as to drilling any, it is out of the question this weather. So you see we turn out in the morning and answer to Roll Call & then get our breakfast, then we have nothing more to do until noon, but to play cards, read & sleep. We get our Salt Horse & in the afternoon it is the same again, but we expect there will be a movement in a few days, and then we shall have something to do. You wrote that Tempy was paying you a farewell visit and that she was going to California soon. Please give her my love & tell her that I should like to see her very much before she goes away for good. And now John, as I have wrote about all that I can think of, I will draw my letter to a close. Please give mylove to Hittie, her mother, and all others who ask after me, and accept a share yourself. With thisI offer you Good Bye.From your Affectionate Brother, Charles W. ManningPlease excuse the bad writing & write to me soon. Remember me when far away,Remember me & for me pray, And if the grave my home should be,Remember Oh remember me.Charlie Comes with whats left of the preprinted transmittal cover, which reads \"Company B, 4th Battalion Rifles, Boston. Cover is addressed to John Manning, Cambridgeport, MA.......paper has edge/corner wear, age staining and has yellowed/toned from time...

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