1864 CIVIL WAR ERA SOLDIER LETTER DATELINED CITY POINT JAMES RIVER VA

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1864 CIVIL WAR ERA SOLDIER LETTER DATELINED CITY POINT JAMES RIVER VA :
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Up for sale is a vintage Civil War Era Soldier\'s letter datelined City Point, James River, Virginia, September 9, 1864. Letter was written by William Addison Hosford, who preferred to go by Add or Addison. Letter is of a personal and what\'s going on nature, addressed to Add\'s mom, Sophia Hosford, who was either at Cummington MA or Williamstown, MA. A little intel on Addison. He was working as a teacher in Oswego, NY when, in early May of 1861, he enlisted in Company B, 24th New York Infantry and mustered out in May of 1863. In 1862 he was captured during the second Battle of Bull Run, but was released during a Prisoner Exchange, and later enlisted in Company D, 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery, served as a Quarter-Master Sergeant and was involved with Conscript Camps..Letter was transcribed and reads as follows:City Point, James River, Va.9th Sept. 1864Dear Mother, You will be glad to hear from me I know, so I will improve this opportunity for writing. I left New Haven last Monday at 9 o\'clock A.M., and landed at Bedloe\'s Island in New York Harbor that evening at 5 o\'clock. Tuesday afternoon, at two o\'clock, we returning soldiers at Bedloe\'s, about six hundred in all, took a government transport bound for Dixie, & this morning disembarked at this place. Why the men for the sixth & nineteenth Corps, which are up in the Shenandoah Valley, were brought away up here I cannot conceive. I think someone has made a great blunder in bringing us here. Now we will have to be reshipped and taken away round to Washington. When they will start us back again, no one knows. It is rather provoking to one who is in ahurry to get back to be fooled around in this way. We had a very rough passage from N.Y. round to Fortress Monroe; so rough that some of the sailors were seasick for the first time in four or five years. The transport was crowded until there was no room for the \'one more\' we hear so much about, and with almost every one on board just assick as they could be, you must know that we had a very interesting time. If your imagination cannot picture it out for you, Charlie will tell you all about it. I took the precaution not to eat any dinner the day we started, because I knew it must be rough out at sea, & was not sick at all. But when night came on, & I spread my blanket on deck, for I wouldn\'t go below, and undertook to lie down, and in a twinkling found myself on the other side of the boat, with half a dozen fellows top of me, I thought it time to hitch myself up somewhere. I finally got behind a barrel that was lashed to the side of the vessel, and know that I couldn\'t roll out unless the ropes broke, offer the winds howl on, & went to sleep. Woke up next morning feeling as gay as could be. We here are ten miles from Petersburg. A Rail Road Line runs from here out to our Army, making it very easy to supply our troops from this point. Genl. Grant\'s Head Quarters are here, and like a true soldier, he lives in a tent. He is a very plain man, seems always in a deep study - often converses with the common soldier as freely as with commissioned officers, and is the favorite of all who know him. Returning soldiers & recruits arrive here at the rate of two thousand a day, so our forces must now be rather on the increase. I am in hopes we will be sent away tomorrow, for I do want to get to the Regt.You will write to me soon, will you not, & next time I will write more, & perhaps something more interesting. Direct to Co. D., 2nd Conn. Heavy Arty, Washington, D.C. My love to Hattie & the baby. Remember me to the folks up on the farm. With affection, I am, Your boy, Add. [William Addison Hosford] Comes with damaged transmittal cover...
Paper has edge/corner wear, age staining and has yellowed/toned from time...

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