Manley Stacey Civil War Letters

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Manley Stacey Civil War Letters

August 29, 1862

Camp Hill	that the boys do not get to sleep	7,30 Breakfast, and drills
Harpers Ferry Va	and that they do their duty.	when we get settled
Aug 29th	Picket duty is one hour on and	We have divided ourselves
5,30 AM	Four off. If I should tell you all	in [ ] of 15 to a tent
Dear Charlie	the Rumors that I hear in	In ours there is, Myself, [Elick]
I received a letter	camp, you would hear news	Williams, Barry F, A Hunt
from home yesterday, it caused	enough, but half that is	Billy [Warins] Bill Sharp
a considerable excitement	reported is not true. We have	John Fishback, P Crowl
the first news from home	hardly got settled yet, in Camp	Tom Hooker, & several more.
You said that they were get-	yet. Yesterday was the first	We are right having Crowl
ting up another Company [ ] [yours]	decent living that we have	in our mess. It is a
Who is to be the Captain.	had, Mr Crowl bought a Tea-	splendid place here early
Yesterday afternoon I got a pass	Pot, & some other things, and	in the morning, & evening.
to go in swimming, and went	cooked for us, he made Coffee	Nights it is awful cold.
up to see the 126 Regt, or the	I tell you we are all right	The Potomac is right in
one from Geneva. There I saw	He can make, good Coffee	sight of our camp, or in
Jessie Cooley, H [ ] Shellborn	A great deal depends on our	sight of where I write
George Warfield, & several	warm drink. Give us good	It is no peace to write in Camp
other boys. They are Camped	Coffee sea biscuit, & I can	so much confusion.
but a little ways from here	live, I can not [go] the Pork	I asked Crowl what I should
I am glad of that, it will	& Beef that they have here	say for him, he says tell them
be more pleasant. We heard	I tell you, we were [used] [rough]	we are all in to it here, he
yesterday that the 2d Wayne Co	the first few days we were here	is busy as a Bee. The Boys are
Regt was coming here.	only one ration a day, and that,	all well, not one of them have
Today I go on, [Picket], up	bread, I could not got along	been sick, though & [ ] afraid
the Balt & Manchester RR, between	if I had not went outside to	bottle of medicine, that
here & Charlstown. The Boys	get my meals. the first day	Father got of Huff. it is just
all like to go on Picket, all	I was here, I went down the	the thing for the [Diarreah].
the duty I have is Corporal	village at 9 PM, & got my	Hoping to hear from
of the Picket which is to say	dinner, had nothing to eat	you soon
	since the night before, I	Manley
	relished that meal.
	Our duties now is Roll call
	at 5 AM, Go down to wash at
	5,30 Drill at 6 to 7

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In the Civil War timeline:

August 29 to 30: Pope's Campaign: At the 2nd battle of Bull Run, Union general John Pope is defeated by 55,000 troops under Stonewall Jackson. After retreating to Washington, Lincoln relieves Pope of his command.

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