1861, Sept. 6, from Albert to Hannah Endicott, [Page 1] |
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Frederick Junction
Friday Afternoon Sept. 6th 1861
Dear Cousin Hannah
I received your kind letter of the 22nd I was much pleased to hear from you and am greatly obliged to you for thinking to write to me. I hope you will write often for as you said in your letter anything from the direction of home is very acceptable you say I did no yaks you to write to me. I took it for granted you would without asking. I was expecting a letter from you and was much pleased when I received one. I received a few lines from my friend Chad Wood that with your letter is the only letters I have received from home with the exception of Mary�s. I have but very little time to write so that I cannot answer many letters. you say you would be satisfied with only a few lines of my handwriting. I think that is about as much as I shall be able to write for I always write everything I can think of in my letters home and I suppose you always read the same so that it would be
| Title | Endicott, William E. Letters, 1862-1866 |
| Creator | Endicott, William E., 1842 |
| LC Subject Headings |
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Kelly's Ford, Battle of, Va., 1863 Cold Harbor, Battle of, Va., 1864 United States. Army. Massachusetts Light Artillery Battery, 10th (1862-1865) |
| EOA Categories |
History – 1838-1874: Sectionalism, the Civil War and Reconstruction Peoples -- Military Life Government and Politics -- Military |
| Description | These are the letters of William E. Endicott. Endicott entered into service at Boxford, Massachusetts as part of the 10th Massachusetts Battery on September 9, 1862. His unit's first assignment was to the Washington, D.C. area. William would serve at various locations in Northern Virginia and Maryland. His battery was captured at Reams Station, Virginia on August 25, 1864. William was a prisoner for six weeks at Libby prison and one week at Belle Island. |
| Digital Publisher | Auburn University Libraries |
| Date | 1862-1866 |
| Original Format | 132 letters of various sizes |
| Type | Text |
| Format | JPEG 2000 |
| Original Item ID | RG 404 |
| Rights | Property of the Auburn University Libraries and is intended for non-commercial use. Users of the image are asked to acknowledge the Auburn University Libraries. For information about obtaining high-resolution copies of this and other images in this collection, please contact the Auburn University Libraries Special Collections & Archives Department at archives@auburn.edu or (334) 844-1732. |
| Collection | William E. Endicott Papers |
| Repository | Auburn University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives. |
| Submitted by | Thornton, Linda |
| Title | 1861, Sept. 6, from Albert to Hannah Endicott, [Page 1] |
| Transcript | Frederick Junction Friday Afternoon Sept. 6th 1861 Dear Cousin Hannah I received your kind letter of the 22nd I was much pleased to hear from you and am greatly obliged to you for thinking to write to me. I hope you will write often for as you said in your letter anything from the direction of home is very acceptable you say I did no yaks you to write to me. I took it for granted you would without asking. I was expecting a letter from you and was much pleased when I received one. I received a few lines from my friend Chad Wood that with your letter is the only letters I have received from home with the exception of Mary�s. I have but very little time to write so that I cannot answer many letters. you say you would be satisfied with only a few lines of my handwriting. I think that is about as much as I shall be able to write for I always write everything I can think of in my letters home and I suppose you always read the same so that it would be |
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