Civil War Letter from the Outer Banks
Autograph Letter, signed ("Robert C").
“Roanoke [Island] Camp Stanton" April 3rd, 1862.
Price: $250.00
About the item
4 pp., on letterhead displaying the Union flag. 1 vols. 8vo. Civil War Letter from the Outer Banks. Very good.
Item #302354
In February 1862, as part of Nrg. Ge. Abrose Burnside's North Carolina Expedition, Union forces captured Roanoke Island and the Confederate fortifcations guarding Albemarle Sound The current letter, written by a young recruit from Massachusetts to his "folkes & family" back home, is filled with camp news and repors of acticities of his unit. His daily schedule isregulated by the beat of a drum: "We are called up by the drum and put to bed by the drum & to all our meals by the same, called out by it to drill & in by it so it is drum, drum from mourn [sic] till night”; they drill four hours per day, have guard once every 9 days and one compayy is always on picket Interestingly he tells of working on a detail building a large warehouse and long wharf at Croatan Sound, wich he describes in fie detail. "YThere are three Regiments here at present No.. 3, 8, & 88 & ours -- our legs are pretty sickly. The Hospital is ful, probably abot 50 in it; their [sic] is 4 died since last night it is rarther alarming but such things must be ’.
