"I'll Not Hold Any Correspondence With Her While I Serve U. Sam

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Union soldier's letter, 4pp. 4to., written by Pvt. Edmund F. Churchill, Co. E, 18th Mass. Vols., "Camp near Sheperdstown, Md., Oct. 29, 1862", in part: "…we expect to move from here soon…we never know anything of where we are to go when we get on a march…I suppose it seems lonely there now so many of the young men having gone off…I'll not hold any correspondence with her while I serve U. Sam…I have just been to see Hiram C. & Eben Vickery off. They are now on their way to a hospital. Hiram is all run down [and] no better than a pine rail. Eben is down with the "runites"…". With the original docketing envelope. VG

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$"I\'ll Not Hold Any Correspondence With Her While I Serve U. Sam$