The convalescent camp at Washington Letter from a Chicopee volunteer. Camp Damnation, four miles from civilization, in a county where lice predominate, and carrion crows make the air resound with their incessant cawing. Sunday, Jan. 11, 1863. Friend Sanford:--The town of Chicopee being pretty well represented in camp and field for the purpose of putting down this Civil War so unjustly forced upon us, I suppose that a letter from a Chicopee boy is read with some interest ...

The convalescent camp at Washington Letter from a Chicopee volunteer. Camp Damnation, four miles from civilization, in a county where lice predominate, and carrion crows make the air resound with their incessant cawing. Sunday, Jan. 11, 1863. Friend Sanford:--The town of Chicopee being pretty well represented in camp and field for the purpose of putting down this Civil War so unjustly forced upon us, I suppose that a letter from a Chicopee boy is read with some interest ...

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Main Author: Ned
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: [Chicopee, Mass.? : s.n., 1863]
Series:American broadsides and ephemera no. 11520.
Subjects:
United States > Army > Barracks and quarters.
Christmas
Military hospitals > Food service
Military hospitals > Virginia > Alexandria
Soldiers > Hospitals > Virginia > Alexandria
Alexandria (Va.) > History > 19th century
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Hospitals
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Medical care

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