Box 1
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Letter, Realf, Richard to Laura B. Merritt and Marian M. Cramer, Nashville, TN (depression and anxiety, aide-de-camp, health, news of victory, hopes for peace), Feb. 28, 1865
File — Box: 1, Folder: 23
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Twenty-two letters from Richard Realf to Laura B. Merritt and her sister Marian Merritt Cramer of Chicago, written while in active service in the Civil War as a soldier in the Illinois Eighty-eighth Volunteer Infantry, organized at Chicago in 1862. Some letters contain vivid, often poetical descriptions of Realf’s experiences as a soldier in the midst of several skirmishes as his regiment moves south. The Illinois 88th was stationed in several locations around Atlanta, becoming involved in...
Dates:
Feb. 28, 1865