Letters
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Excerpt from Letters: From Two Brothers Serving in the War for the Union to Their Family at Home in West Cambridge, Mass When we arrived we found our cannon bad driven the enemy off, or most of them: there were a few of their pickets left, who were on the side of the hill which rises quite abruptly up from the river; they continued to fire upon us, while our men returned the compliment. I had the satisfaction of firing a few shots at them, with what effect I do not know, but two or three of their balls came whistling quite near my head. Our two pieces of cannon shelled a very large mill on the opposite side of the river. The rebels used to get in there and fire out of the windows: it made a very good fort, the main part being of stone, and about six feet thick at the bottom. We could not set it on fire with shell, so five men went over in a boat and burnt it; it made a splendid fire. These dams are built across the Potomac, and raise the river so that it fills the canal; if they should break this dam it would let the water down some ten or twelve feet, and of course stop navigation on the canal. Well, I have "smelt gunpowder," and been "under fire," and "roughed it" with the army long enough to judge a little what a soldier´s life is, and certainly it is a hard one, yet I think I can stand it, and must say I like it pretty well. I have seen many of the regiments in Banks´s Division, but none equal to the famous Thirteenth Mass. Rifles. Our Colonel Leonard is very popular, and his regiment is quite full; we have one hundred and two men in Company A. Some of the men, a few days since, crossed over to the "sacred soil" on a foraging expedition; I intended to have been among the number, but missed the chance by being off hunting in the woods after partridges, etc., at the time. They were quite successful, bringing back several wagon loads of spoils, such as pigs, turkeys, geese, potatoes, corn, etc., and a live peacock. Dyer (you remember Dyer, he was in the Wind with Eugene) got a lot of secesh money. I inclose to you some of this trash and a peacock´s feather. I do not think of anything more to interest you, so farewell. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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