CIVIL WAR LETTER - 10th New Hampshire Infantry, Smokes a Rebel Pipe, Death Etc..

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CIVIL WAR LETTER
Co. E, 10th New Hampshire Infantry.
This Civil War soldier letter was written by Charles Hiram Morrill (1838-1904) of
Co. E, 10th New Hampshire Infantry.
Charles was the son of Hiram Morrill (1808-1864) and Mary McClure Stewart (1809-1895) of Salisbury, Merrimack county, New Hampshire. Charles was married in January 1862 to Sabra Cheney (1842-1872).
Charles enlisted as a private in Co. E, 10th New Hampshire Infantry and was mustered out of the service on 23 May 1864 as a corporal. He was severely wounded in the Battle of Cold Harbor on 3 June 1864.
Charles wrote the letter in October 1863 from Portsmouth, Virginia, where the 10th New Hampshire was quartered from mid July 1863 to March 1864. He mentions only one other member of his company—Alfred (“Alf”) Sanborn of Salisbury.
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Portsmouth, Va.
October 1, 1863
Dear Brother,
I received your kind letter of the 27th and was very glad to hear from you. My health is very good at the present time and hope this will find yours the same. I don’t think that it was a very fun game to let Sime go home the second time. I think that some other one ought to have gone in his stead. Mark told me that he thought that Phil could not live but a short time.
Did I tell you where I got that pipe? If I did not, I will. I got it out of a Reb house so it is a Reb pipe.
About those shirts, I want you if you will to get some cloth for a pair of woolen shorts and send cloth to [my wife] Sabra for she is a going to make them and when you have a chance you can send them to me.
Alf Sanborn of Salisbury has gone to the hospital this morning. I did not know that he was sick until I heard that he was in the hospital. I think that some of the boys in this company will enlist into the Regular Army for three years.
I wish that I was there to help you haymake. You must not work too hard. When you write, write all of the news and what is going on there.
I cannot write much more this time for I have got to go and draw ten days rations. Tell Mother to write to me and I will answer as soon as I get it. What have you done with the [ ]. I shall have to close.
Your brother, — C. H. Morrill
I wish that you would send me a pair of black gloves in a paper.
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