CIVIL WAR LETTER - 130th NY Infantry "Dragoons" - Rebel Army 20,000 at Richmond!

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Civil War Letter
Civil War Letter written by Elisha Rose (datasheet says "Elisher") of Company H of the 130th New York Infantry - the NY 1st Dragoons!  Letter was written September 17th, 1862 from Suffolk, Virginia.  He says the rebel army numbering 20 thousand is close by in Blackwater.  He says they have skirmishes with rebel pickets.  Gives a health report on the regiment and long list of provisions and how much they've paid to local sources
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This Civil War soldier letter was written by Elisha Rose (1843-1863), the son of Thomas and Priscilla Ann (Caskins) Rose of Alfred, Allegany county, New York. Elisha enlisted at the age of 19 as a private in Co. H, 130th New York Infantry on 15 August 1862 to serve three years.  When mustered, he was described as a mechanic and a painter by trade, standing 5 feet 7 inches tall, with brown hair, black eyes, and a dark complexion. The 130th New York Infantry was converted on 28 July 1863 into a regiment of cavalry. They were first called the 19th New York Cavalry and re-designated the 1st New York Dragoons prior to his death from disease on 1 November 1863 at Alexandria, Va.
After it was mustered into the service, the 130th New York Infantry was pushed at once to the Union front, south of the James river, at Suffolk, Va., where from mid September 1862 until January 29th, 1863, the men were occupied with the “usual duties of the soldier in an advanced garrisoned position in the South—picket duty, throwing up entrenchments, building corduroy roads, burying the victims of malaria, turning out at midnight for long roll alarm, usually without cause, but occasionally relieved by a reconnaissance to the Black water, without other result than blistered feet and swollen limbs.”
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