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    "ocrText": "CHELLE abbro\nG\nFrom\nSend to\nSTATE\nTHendi Walpole Route K the\nOUNITED\nNew\n3\n9\nSEAL\nCash section Vice - pu. and\nerror Enton\nD.C.\nobbro:\n20m\nUNITED\nHendi\nWalpola\nRouted the\nSTATES\nPOSTA\nJUNITED 3CENTS STATES\n9 CENTS 9\nCash Boak andit\nass.\nsection in\nerror\nhrigton\nD.C.\nCharge\nFrom\nTHandic ID\nUNITED\nSTATES\nPOSTA\nWalpole N.H.\nT\nINFORMATION\nCOUNITED 3 CENTS 3 STATES POLICIAGE\n9 CENTS 9\na\n/\namerican Red Gass.\nRECEIVED\n1? '948 SITERS\nCASH BOOK AUDIT\nWashington.\nD.C.\nTHE AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS\nEASTERN AREA\nTo:\nMr. Ramone S. Eaton\nDate:\nNovember 17, 1948\nVice President\nFrom: Mr. Harold B. Nearman\nSubject:\nAttached Material from\nWalpole, New Hampshire\nI am forwarding herewith 30 pages of material prepared by Mr.\nWaldo F. Hayward of Walpole, New Hampshire, on August 11, 1889, on the\nsubject \"Service in the U. S. Sanitary Commission.\"\nAs this, in all probability, is of historical value to the Red\nCross, I am sending it to you for transmittal to our Historical Division\nat National Headquarters.\nA.B.N.\nHarold B. Nearman\nManager\nAttachment\nNOV 1 9 1948\nrecid direct\nBELLOW FARM\nWALPOLE\nNEW HAMPSHIRE\namerican Red Goss.\nWashington. D.C.\nDear Sirs\nI am sendin I you herewitt\n\"Service in the u.s. Sanitary Commission\nby Waldo F.Hayward, of Walpole, M.H.\nwhich I hope may he of interest in ear - -\nnection with Sanitary Commission papers.\nThis memoraudime is 2eul at the\nwish of Miss grace R. Canfield of Walpale,\nMr. Haywards niece. Kindly acknowledge\nreceift and oblige yourrery haly\n4ct. 31st 1948\nHundcolt\nService in the u.s. Panitary Communion\nIn December 1861. I voluntared to give my unnal to the Sanitary\nCommission for. the mater, 2 I went to Wachingto the last of Du 1861\n2 I was Jun in change of a stene have on Pensyhannia Ave Warking the I.e.\nmy turniness nus to unfack I snt the un thetutions unt by the loyne people\nto the commission, 2 to Ind out where each packuge on box If Clime from 2 report\nthe sume to the central Hue, but ni many cares is was Include\nout where the artuke clime from, w at the entral office if they accered w\nletter statung that a fox an Jackage had teen and Int they would in due\ntime acknowlage the veipt of the steme even if in could net be adentiped.\nI had lime five on inx men to help me, as there was a large accumulation of\ngoods, ,2 many Judger would centain 50 on Jushape a hundred different\nkind of things, such as building of all knich, trues, underclettes and hurder, groun\nIncrease, wines, spents, books, games, chuld apples, may thing you cnew think of with\na Eng but of the dones manul, hit ruthing It how from what town 2 tate it um\nfrom. there things me all unpacked d into out, L pached, each kind by\nAulf, & the fox, in puckage numbers 2 marked with what is antained, as N°11\n40 Queth, N°12 500 In of woolen rocks & 10 m, 2 a acord kept hi a book, W weared\nat any time tell what our toch an hand uns; in tooks us sime weeks to Jonesh\nat the stone have cw Tenn Ave, I them with with my men to another the have\nmith of the Dam Ave, culled Rettegit stuther, it now built for w large hack\nstate 2 untained stalls for houses d large wous for canaiges, d it nas Jacked\nfull of taxes 2 famels, that had teen accumulating for weeks, I went at them\n2 centinued ituachly at mak at them until early in April/62 them I acturned\nhome. the was another the have on F.lt near the central Her\nwhere the goods me usued In the rolder on requestion of surgery, on\nthen partier, the the keepen on Fit, would chaw in me an he wanted\nthe girds, d resul times a week, I had It load army wagen to fill his\norder, this now the \"moder herand\n2\nthe we hundrede of fancels of bandages & but which I thoughs\nnever would he much as there was no cull for them during the united the\nlast highting being at Ball. Bluff in the face, but underweldthing, Innoer\nI delicares for the rich went off Inetty fast; me the upplied rurial hundred\nQuilti blemkets for our men who were takin Juseness at Ball Run, had been\nexchanged. the object of the supply department of the Communi me It\nJurnick necessary articles at a moments nitice when nucled, Uncle Sam after\na time 11 had all there things, but h get them through the ugular channels from\ntook time, & the Intents might che mean time. Jame time hi much 62, we\nWe had a large tock of rocks, & I am ent out with Escal army naging\nloand with cocks t destribute them among the ug, about Narhington who\nwas duily expecting orders to march, 2 they mere they g had I get them\nI umember has Rindy I was und by Col Barner 18 man, 2 by we Black\nof a Penn ug who was aftermed killed in N.C.\nMy Anties and wh Rut me very much companed I I had my h myself\n2 often get away during the day h- our the capital the Senate chamen\n2 house of Representation, I saw Char Summer two I hand him vheak saw\nmost of the netable of that time, I attended - Leves\nthe first in the day time Jan 1/62 where every are went, I know the man\nin Just of me 200 w whip hi his hand think he wer a huckman, I\nshook hands with Linish, I rather have an to in, his he Julled Inc hand\naway 2 gave me a luk an much as t cay you have had your allewance\nthe recend lever I went t was hi the evening L was more ubet ful I thing the\nthere was a great ocarcity of pretty unner I thrught we will show\nmine at an evening party an home; I stood by Put Lenwen 2 head him\ntalk 2 laugh at his own johns very much like other Jocks.\nI had w very good time that writer, I had a ronn on 7. It, d get my Incals\nat an hotel in the Ave. d afternored at Willands, the Commission grand my\n3\nmy expenses 2 I gave my time, went h the theatre Ime 2 learned to May\nfillions, Lundays Mr Knapp would Invide Clark d I with hour L we\nwould ude would 2 unit the bascous camps &. John taxan 4th Vt non tranght\nhi uih with pnemonia to the hotel whole we founded, 2 Clarch L I helped take\nCare of him until his mother came 2 som as he was better took him home\nI acturned have in Anil. During the mater went t America with Mr Knoppe L\nClank t look wh the bodies of young Bamett2 fay of the 6 N.H. we get one of the\nfoches I net unember which 2 unt in home, L y also went h Phil- h= look\nwh Lemord Laurance 4 It he was rich in L dud win after\nForten Manne\nEarly in May 62 I and a telegram June Mr Known to lane Wattimme\nwhere I shared mut In Game at the Entan house 2 get my instruction, which\nwere h go t H, Minne & report h Dr Wan, whit June Ball by\n3r None who left next day for the front, where Mr Olmitis, Knapp 2 mont\nof the fan lam were on steam boats, 2 left me role representative of the Commission\nat this important just without any order on hit 15 do the but I could.\nI was a regular Commissioner agent of the Jan, Can with hay of $50. a month my\nexpenses, I had a room in a part of the 6hr Hygera Hotel which was 2/3 hospital\n21/3 Litel L had my narals at the hotel, l had a very good endle house which\nwas kelt at the government stather, 2 I had many good now in all demitime above\nthe country which I enjoyed very much Gin Wool was in command at the\nIt, an one mem been so years old, but after Norfork was taken he was whered by\nGen Fix, or luyler was medical christer, the my immediately after the\nfuttle of Williamstring, 2 the hospital was full of ununded, 2 form were ameng\nin may day with rich 2 wounded men. my chetres were to leceme all quick\nthat came by toat, Journe them h the funt if needed, on h the them until\ncalled Jan, L as my thing hue who under military control, I was often huntred\nIt get transpertation for them on get them thew in government was have\n4\nThe tay was full of shiping, the minutor, Memership It Lawance, Galena\n2 many then men of was time at ancher, the Vanclesbuelt a lorge itemen\nwhich was guin h the government by Mr d nm anger with an\nmin frow, to un down the Memman which inn over at Nanfork should\nshe come out again, tender all there there na lots of them bouts 2 a flut\nof enting craft of all Kinds carry supplies In the army.\nOne morning som after my animal all the men of won get under way 2 ran\nover towards Sewalls Dr. 2 began to shell the whl buttery on the Pt, is nm\na very pretty ught to su the shells burn I enjoyed in with many then, Put\nLinwth was on the whaif, hit be did not sum h unimbr that he had sun me\nat Washington only w few menths before, that is the may with people when they\ngo away from home Just on airs. Putty rom we raw a clark column\nof mike comeing down the Eliguth uur Jun Norlalk that was\nMummue comeing down h see what all the mine um afreet, our\nmen of war stopid being a came over the It, the Menimar came\nout wound Swalls DH2 2 exchanged a Juo whits with our vimits at lung\nsurge, the little tug Naugatuck which camed me 100 is uple gun\nthere a shit clean over the Menimar at a destance it new end of\nJune mile; I heard the Part ex Jun in June that our linels chd\nnet Ap I hight the Minimar, but am officers would righ hight her in\nthe Maruno channel of the anim 2 under the gum of the fathers an\nSewalls It 2 Crancy Is, the Memimu won after utainer to Napolk L\nall will quit again. It nm that day or um after that none 5000 or lever\nhospi your put an steam fools Just they steamed up towards the month of\nJames now, I then turned d came drun the buy to Ian that in looked as if\nthey were going out t sea but Inally landed the hoope near Lewalls Pt\nd will marched h Nirfock which nan evacuated by the uts 2 the\nMenimore non blown uh near Crany Is at 3 ockh in the mirning I was\nwaked by the explosion. about this time I Hero Gurge Wheelork L for\nRobert name who came down on hospital fouts d then for w how hours, they\nleft in my change It Col Funk faith 2 N.H. rick I took him t my was\nkept hm during the day d rent him h Ball tony the mail bout in\nthe evening. there mu three hospitals in the vicenty of the It, the Hygeen lore\nunder the wills of the H, the mill Creek 1/2 a mile away across the vision\na great government tou house, the Chuapeaks 2 miles away. N was\nJunusly a young lucties seminary d nm Jull fun celler In cupular\nI and t supply there herpitals as Jan as my means would allow, I also fited\nout the steamer John Baooki of Me, an an hopilue tout, Jurning hed\nsneks, 2 lad them filled with than 2 hay, by a detail of rolders\nJun the It. Some days I new very busy, 2 them I would not have any\nthing th do, - Instead cime down I'm w few hours wm after yorktown was\nevacuated I called with Imm E Gen six, Mr Ulmstead vaid he could\ngive me no entruction as to my duties, fut In do any thing that remed good\nm my right. I role over h New Port New 10 miles are day with a\nyoung man by the name of Burgen fun R.I. a gandom of Sustam Burgen\nhe was taking care of his father an free who was wrunded at Williamshing\nwe culled on Gen Mansfeeld who nan in ummand, 2 he gave all a details\naccount of the Jught of the Memonac with the Cumberland 2 Congress\nthe then larg Ime 300 yds June the The with her upper masts\nout of the nuter, 2 what was left of the Congress now arture 1/2 a mile further\nclum, the Gene should us whre a shell came through the won whree he has\nwriting, little did I think then that I should occupy that very house two genes\nlater as our amy HD Drs. we returned through the unins of Namter a)\nvillage that the uh funned early hi 61. Same time in June I ment h\nYorktown GI the mail boat with In Hunt Jam Buffalo, we went over the\nwbil works, L our own 2 law some of works of this great mge,2 get routing\n6\nwet m a shower, we stayed at Yorktoan me sught, utamed the way we\nthe\nwent. Gro Billins the In hother appeared t me me clay he non if the\nevery\n100 - N.Y. x now with his Rey m the may to the Just, I troh him through\nname\nthe Inpital which um Jull of munched to Ruh his shuts up, he num\nto to\nhengin\nEnd w word until we got and then he turned t me 2 end Wal, I\nm, 6.\nwill get the Rey up t the part, L then they may 90 to here I will\nof the\nnot go any further with them. By the last of June the meather had\nat or\ngit I he very hot, 2 his 2 my ve win um like an over, I had made the aquamtument of\nfrom\nClrd Saigh, Lune, who were hung hi the care mater of the It, 2 get them t\nlook\ntake me h found, they just me wh a ut hid in the Water fatting close\nface\nto a funt how, L it was always cool & complate the Sargh Luis was\ndefe\nthen about 55 years old 2 had and in the regular army 35 years, he Mai Gad Sorgh\nthe &\na.2.M. of the put, his wife mu a good metherly woman & has mation of the Pat hort\nIt,\n& made me very comfortake, Sangh Lives attained the unk of Capt in the regular\nhm\narmy L I saw his death in the paper a year ago. I also macle the aquaintance of\nI M\na the Lamson, her hustand was Lt Gl of a Maine Reg, he ungned about this\nIt A\ntime, think he could not stand the racket the would have made a better Cob I\nI go\nthink, The was unturing in her dustin to the with 2 wounded soldies, I met her\nJoses\nseveral times afterneds, 2 shall always amender her with respect 2 admissation\nuto\nthe was a lettle tody hit a great emel. I had w time that cummer an\nwith\nthe whole, warm evenings we would get cut of w host wh how in the water fattery\nthe of\nhe h the teach 2 go in fathing, me might Sqt Luin, down an an old tan bucket. 2\nThey\nit was with diffeculty that me cruld release him. I think is none towards\nhere\nthe last of Jane in Just of July, I had net head any thing of the Ian Can for\non\nmake & I thought in nm my duty to 90 d link them up, w I take the mail\nhea\nbout formute House, get the that evening 2 uponted t Mr on the\nof\nT\nIteam font Wilson Small, he gaid I had got there in time to go back with the\nallo\nut, Mc Clellan had just commena) his celebated thank Invorment to the James\nesca\n7\nthe next muning we got under hay together with a that of iteamen 2 carling craft\nmay steamer had Das many school as they could tow, d as we teamed down the\nnammo winding Pammary, we could In marts in every desection all recomming\nhungin to to headed different ways. On the Wilm Imall (9 afternords went at James inner\nI\nIn, 64 as our Ho. In toat) were all the Cominim that were left at the funt many\nin\nof them lader, I remember as we come out of James in into Hamten when the were\nat there am a I'm hun Howing 2 a little ru, 2 in was such a why gir\nof\npm the stephing air of the country 2 the Chickaheming ewamps, that may me\nt\nlooked as Including as a tacket of chips in Ulmeted looked at the smiling\nfaces Wund the table 2 unarked, this move of Mc Clellan looks like utreat 2\ndefent, but it does not seem It effect the Instruct company much, II Jul like\nSorgh\nthe ant of you sory change is a whif.\" The Wilm Imall was left as the\nhort\nIt, include the charge of Dr Jenkins, 2 the leat of the party / cattered to the\nInnes or else where. Jome weeks later the Wilm Imale new taken by\nof\nI. M. Ackens department & londro with exchanged upl primers that mere going wh\nthis\nIt Hamome L5 on the James to he exchanged, so I now chrecter by sh enkins\nI\nt go up in the toat, a get her returned h- the Jan. Com if Junitle after the\nInsiners and here lunded, the were 7 fouts l think londed with some 4000\nats, all under a flag of truce, the were Ime 400 w 500 m our boat\nwith a quard of 20 min 2 a In of N.Y. milition, I was kind of had dent of\nthe occusine as the Capt of the boat naiscaud about not of his with α swne of the White\n2\nthat at fun mast head camed us cape through he would kuh is on long as he\nhid the It now new h his human 2 birth of them came to me In felless 10 I put\non all the style I could 2 did the fut I Knno how. must of the who me Thing\nhealthy men, will clother, must of the officer hi new gray wwform 2 many\nof them had Juld lanes roung over their Moulden, which should never have been\nallowed, we also had Ime 40 Enclose crew of refel Immaties who namely\nescaped hanging, they me an un Judent, durachly ut, thatner In Just come\nof them in haw, then they behaved letter give 3 cr 4 of the presents dud\nin the may wh the wird me taken achne 2 funid. Wegot t Namine Lov\nme time in the afternom, I cant remember him larg me new going wh the ever, as\nin my 24 years ago but I thank in was the recend night that we remanced at Names\nLd, mi the morning we get under wigh 2 steamed up w few miles, can our hoops\nin have m the nith tank, the at just his a battle, Hill, that non the\nwalm that me were kept an Hamsini, we mut on a fun mule Jun ther When me\nstoped by Ime whil office who ume gallifing down to the maters dge 2.\ncalled on in to stop, that was the first time I un Ever upl will in and;\nwe were cletained the sime time, then were anderw h Incrude t Ackens Lanchy\nwhere we unloaded our lung tought, & took in an equal number of our own men\ntried I hungry augged desty, we had been Instructed with 20ft tread, balid punk 2 Ean\nsmoths, which were read rut at suce to there Jameshed hous. they found a He of\nJine each he the tout d the une such a such for N, that I was othged what\na quard over the He, 2 hr the men In Just I each me take a Lanceful, they\nwould eat is acght drun, they me as sult hungry an cattle, salt um a scance\narticle in the confiderary, after they had Jillio themselve they land claim 2 wont\nto slap, until we landed them at Hannin B, L they were taken t their Rey\nthe chances of was again. The next morning I went It the head I.M. d to the Medical\nSnicter to get the four whind, but they saw the achu has to how all bouts, 10\nI had Is give it up, all the handportation nar unded to move the army June the\nJunineulur, Ime days later. I remand there same days, Gr the the bout Elizabuts\nthey. tro me of a Junny thing that received three days before, me might a whe\nhqht battery come down I the opporte bank of the wear, d commenced shelling\nrun fonts 2 the hope on shore, of coune the new great confuning the\nfouts that had team up got cut of the may as um as Junite, the Eligath\nhad no steam & had E.umain, the nos as namew tain may from the main h the\nupper deck, I fames new going down, l Wood commy wh, they me great funly faller\n9\n& they got wedgen L could not go either way for sime time; I ome E.M.S\nclerks fill nito mik hole, 2 unained the as they thought that has\nas rape a place as they could Ind; thange It say no damage hm due, d no lifes\nlost, but three now great unfusion; Me Clellan had ume heavy ques munted on an\nwill of the wer, d the has cut an the ppinte fank, d they and nut time as again.\nI acturned h It, Memore in the mad boat, L nas very glad to get back, as in\nwas not a pleasent experience. Aikins Lo, non the I ame are we unw the\nwriter of 64,25 when I felenged to the Army of the James, 2 I got to know the\nwor quite will, as I what tack L yorth a good manytimes. After the army\nmored, the Elgateth came to H, Minne of was uncles my orclus, I tooh\ntrips in him, to yorktown, Norfork, 2 Point Lork Club h to supply hospitals,\n2 finally when the Ann me exauted took the tout h Washington the was\natout the muddle of John/62. the time of the battle of Antitem.\nAfter being ni Washington a Inco days, I was Hut to Ma\nin change of four army magant 2 an ambulance Treaty louched aith\nmpplus for the wounded, I had a good buy here In ude which has\nafternals a guat famili hi the Communis under the name of\nAntetem. We left Washing ten late in the afterning made nime\n5 miles that major comped in a held d shept Under the nagers\nrather crw, made show progrem that day, had all my nagins ur\nm a hill at one time but finaly got up, found the nagine all new\ngreaming, had in done at now, should think they had not orled In a month\ncampid again that might, next morning get to Fredenck Ma uputed\nto 3.Steiner, who descrites me to have part of my load at the hupitals\nat that June left Ime HH of eggs I remember, them ment on towards\nwith induse It cupply herpitale at Milletain. Bometro\n2 Rudemil, camped that mofht an the Just of fouth Mantan\nThat afternom he met many wrunched m the and, there who whe slighty\n10\nwounded in the arms head in upper Just of the body whe an foot tosting along\ntrwards Facterik, the badly wounched in amtulanos lung hasson of which we\nmet, Theacher on each rile of the am becomes Etamed with blood,\nthe next morning the clamed over Smith Mountain met more wounched, 2\nJune whe Insinas, at Middletin Col Edward Will luy wounded but his\nlept arm, I was directed by Mr Kreapp th make particular inquires about\nhim, I did no hit and not ru him as I was not acquarented with him, but\nI know him letter later. I I got h Thanking about now upoted\nh the Miar in change of the Lan, Can, I forget his name, he non very\nmuch put cut, that I had left theres an the 2000, he mantio the honor\nof issuering them, I that him by ruying that, it was by In Itemen or clus\n& that I should have left them all of I had have w instructio, the Can\nhad taken a store in thanking L our goods here m the shedves, d me\nund them to Surgers, 2 we branded hi the Jamily of the man who owned\nthe fuilding I Jarget his name. the next narming I whe out to out\ndifferent hospitals 2 to get the names of the wounded, but think we\nin after that day as the names had all been taken by new paper Justice in Imm\nofficial sources; I tok the name at are have of Col Eduard Henta Mass\nshot through the bray, d of hism a It wounded in the am, I upposed\nthe Col would due but in the Vering of 64 he now a Gen in winmend of an 3n\nContributed to wet herpitals h Ind wr what they must nucked 2 to do\nwhat me could to allerate suffering, there hupital were churches, school have\ndurling hundr, furns, tents, 2 some little shetter made of wills L boards\nmch whole whe su paing cem not he on unless the I vere\nnearly 20000 men wounded en toth will 2 the wh had hpr us mut of\nthea work cares the killed had all heen fund in lung henches, humands\nin one grave, the battle Juld looked as of in had here such by a whom and\ngran L crops hampled down Jenus huchd, the human 2 hus under with\n11\nshit 2 shell, I unted must Justs of the fuld, the Juntan Church in the\nHagerstown wad 2 the corn held in put, the the hidge where Burneric\ncrossed h many of the have that were kind was the unfanced, 2 buy whe\nthey fill & swolen to turn the ordenary we One afternow who and\nappear at our the hit Cousin Mar, he non surgen of the 12 Mar who\nwere allmot anchalated in the fattle it was sepected that he was kind\nbut it was his ant, Lung, he ninted me h come d have the major with him\nto I has Artiten Endlew 2 will out with him some three miles t his full\nhorpt where he has about too factly wound me, he had taken a farm how\n2 had it Julio with the fame d out huilding with wounded, it nm the but\namanged L must unifortable held health I dan, he how taken Inserior of\nevery thing, had unal crus poultry to, all of which contributed to Ind his\nwounded min; this Jann home was hi the mult of the fattle held 2 has cuce\nduring the day Leturn the two armer, α was struck several times by chill\nI got a acple d Iahn taymet from the full, the baymet I have in my um now\nthe rifle I got h Washington for couldnet net get is home, an the provoct quare\nwarched all express packager, while on the Elizahth there whe quite a\nnumber of sucider & hidler an brund gamman property, though now the\nknew any thing about them, I adution suctoble L hidle, had them\npucked in a box with then things belouraging to me, get them safe Washington\n2 a year after had them and me by oxpun, but the ruddle 2 hide have your\nthrugh my, things Whe O.K. m the fox her marked, Inddeed hidle laken by gon-\ninspector. I umained 10 days on as Jostinght at Therepourg them must home\nm leave of ahmu, non at home through the munth of lat 62, uperted\nfor duty in Washington early in Nov- nas Dent by Mr Known to\nHaspen tony, moding one here L learning another, it now a mild please\nafternson early in Nov 62 when two homemen might have been rune\nwinding the may an the wow June Narlangtra h Mo, one a\n12\nagency men in the uniform of a Maj of Car u.s. A. who rut his five un\nyour with the ease 2 game of an accom puch solder, um May H may\nHoggenen / Mass bar, the other human gode a splended Hack charges\n2 oval hi citizens dress, but his plane clothes crowd a heart which has begunning\nIt Imsulter with mastral ander, he was thout chuntry, nit h- my has, L\nhe ho by the buddle a buy here, loaded with his baggage which nur a lung Hach\nbather bug, factined cum Mary h the Indull which banqed, 2 phoped at may\nnuture of the house, which had h be draged along by mane thingth to though\nthe Maj had Rudly spanked him with the flat of his suber, that the have has\nno apard of him that he would only go at all Man the May non Ime 50 your\nin Just, this last hero was your humalle May Heggenean nan m his\nmy h jum his Reg, < h luk ah time men 2 heres that had ten hft an the was\nhe Inspect that we should keep an till midought, but I now lane 2\nthe nit having acten any for ame time besides I did notput very. wee\nmyself, 20 when at run down ebe came It a nice looking routhnde Im I\natopid for the might < the Maj keptow. The next merning has ww drough\nbut I Jushed an thrugh I now getting mere two the at may jolt 2 the have I\nwer backing mure relectant, 2 I scolded 2 cames, d julted along till might when\nI Just up at little turn at Urtana In then merning the grund was honger\nhand 2 is MM eneroing, I hand some caralry Reg that me just turning\ncut from there becomes they must have had a ww might of it, about\nnow I get t Harpen Fevoy 2 reputed to In Joug law who me m change\nhe and the army nal shooing, probobly h the that I had\nbetter take the hims huk to Washington, 2 that I had letter take the\nhimes over the other ride of the word get them into a fam same where for\nthe night, to I, Tennly Gw H olland who appeared to me in a mutures\nmanner, this now at the time he now getting over being rutter, hole over\nthe run 2 Karmished rund arming the Jam haves, but unld and no\n13\nplace for currelve on houses, w we came back to Harper Ferry in the\ndriving know tom, just our herse in the rums of an old church without\na 2001 cound them up with two Hankets each, which were stolen of\nthe backs before merning by the who were unitedly paining\nthrough the true. Our quartus were in a the d we made curretus\nas comportable as we could sleeping an Jracking foxes covered with Sanctary\nquilts 2 Hankets, but in new a comptters mght, hit it nas better them being\nout in the Inno like the soldies, I have hand many old widens speat of that\nmojht as one of the wont they lun knew, 20 cold at that time of your for that\ncountry, after hatefult I tooh wh my many may tack h Washington draging\nthat munate here after me, hit I had hardly get an the Md ride before\nI overtork a man an Just, I end do you want h ude, yes he and he tow\nme that he belonged h the D.ll. dept, had have to Harpun terry with hower, L\nhad get left, L was going h walk t Washington, his he wde that d-d here\nall the way, d tok all the houtle when we stoped in listing often them L\nwas a clean companionable below, I was grateful It that man\nbut I neur saw him again after he hd me good moght as the the\nm 7, It Washington 96. I uputed h Mr Knapp, d he Enge well\nyou had better start early tommon morning & tuke there houses to\nWancuton Junet, you will Instably catch Fr Youg lun or ume. of the\nJan, bom. the I replied that I now about und up with my 140 miles\nmile in your days, l that I did not know hit I um going to be rich as\n1) had eaten hit very little for the last wah, 20 he comunted that I Phants\nwt a day 2 see has I non comeing antid I did come out the next day\nwith jaundue, my eyes 2 kim were yellow, 20 had as rich time of N\nfor four weeks, I was at the home, black was very knd to me 2 numed\nme up good, In Gumes though during of communition came over every day\nIn Inscrite In the soldier 2 doctined me, gave me great chow\n14\nfollowed by equal down of phine, hit without effect, so finally he\ngan me 16 gearns of calomel at once L at night, a great bruse of\nsime kind of a decortion that did my bussiness, for I beg an to get\nbetter after that,2 about Sic/ reperted for duty.\nIt was atnut the beginning of my clinen while I was atte to seane\nstand that I muh Coum Mar at Willards, he had been taken\nJustin at Wanester, but his here, baggage, arm, 2 lettle negger by Luy\nhad teen parolid, L was writing for leave of ahenue It go home, he has\nabout in the same condition as I was, wiffering with some Truthe of\nhis liver, he action me h go w the been to w Mr 2 the Wood in the\nPenate I think Nwar, I belime we both went It duh, after in was\natout half through, he ached me if I had enough, 10 we quit\nIrth sust cur hear, he qet his with leave, L I my with D.\non Gnmes only had I'm a shut time after thei, though he continued\nt go to the Home until arther a how day! of his death, he nm a time\ngoing min α excellent doctor, he was Engine of the marines who\nCaptured John Brown at Harper Femy d dont his Winds he gan me\na long account of in which Jushipe y mill write and line day\nWalpone N. H. June 9. 1888. Two on three years have clapaid have I\nwrote this last line d I think I are tell the tory of John Brown's capture\nan told me by In Gumes\nCapture of John Brown.\nAfter John Brown had made his sand an Harper Ferry, d was being\nbenged by the ga milita hi the Engine have in the Annal grands\nLr Col Robs E. Lu (afterworde General in the Confederate arrice )\nwas Ent to Harpen Funy with 80 maniens, d In Gumes went\nwith the detechment an surgeon, they amind by rail at Harp Forry\njust before dark of a that autumn day; Col Lee committed outh\n15\nthe offer of the Ja militia, got an idea of the cituation, he then expremed\nhis antention of going into the Annual yard with his command\n& unaining for the night to make an attack on the Engine have\nwhere Burn L his the w four men were, at him day hight hi the maning.\nThe office of the militia tried t desirade June so desperate An\nundertaking they magnaped Browni nombers to hundred emil\nthat Lee d his men would rever came out above, though they\nhad useral thousand milition they love content to grand the Animal\nat a wafe dutance; Lu and he was int there to capture Banen\n2 his men, Le throught that this was the fact way to do it, 20 he\nentered the gard of the Annal without opportition α fromact\ntheir for the mopht; at daylight the attach was made, they Same\na long leavy ludden, which was med as a buttering nam, by\nhalf dozen marcens to force in the done of the engine house,\n2 when the door was broken in, the there whit me Jull mill,\nweral whats me fried June the Engine have after the door are broken\ndown α me manue the 240ml wounded, I thank, New Brown\nwas wounde mi are on more places, the Immular wound being\na ruber cut on his head Dr Gunir chend his whench L\nhd what he conto to make the old men cm fortable, be card that\nBrown was the calment L much any me fresent L\nde expressed for the compane d dignity of the\nDo mans fearning This is atmt the cubstance of Do Gumes\nstory, though it is 25 gears since I heard N, I think I hanget Nature\nnght for the details of killed wound D De I will refer my uden\nIt history\n16\nAbout the first 30/62 I upoted Jor duty L was unt down to Aguin\nCruk by boat. The army of the Potomar was then on the nith tank\nof the Rapahamoch Fredencksburg under the command of\nBurnaide, Aquin Guk wm the terminer of the What RR. of 12\nmiles to Fredericksturg d was the dept of supplier for the army, in\nis a minurate just a sand for at the mouth of this cruk, 2\nonly saw a couple of fut above the water; the was a long why built\nout into the won an Julis over the unin of the to why which and burnet\nthe summer before, there were miral large huldings an the whf- L\non the dand, belonging h Commission 2 I.m. department 2 many them\nfouts of all description loaded with supplier for the army we had\nthe store-fout Elizabeth laging off in the theam londed mth\nSanctary stores: on there we had a portable house, 16x24, 2 a hospital\ntent I think for the dones, of which Ive had 4 I thank at that time\nWe afterneds added h are bullings by a lean to an one under\nof the house for a the come, a stable In 6 honer, a lodge for\nsoldiers atrut 50x20 built of sough boards, with fun he, would\naccomidate about 50 them 2 a kitchen at are and, there hurdrage new\nfull for an by the 2m. I fand at the Guh Dr Smith in charge\nbut In was nick d rom went h Washington, he was succeded by or Andrew\nwho was at the fout morth of the time, L when be was away I was in charge,\nmy prince Toon Puk who the on come evon, also Peter Reynolds, and\narral colored boys croks, drive W put later in the unter after\nthe fatth of Fuderwhitung we had more, I will name there\nI can umenter who whe there Termanently bn Keshin\nGershm Bradford, Hong, fay, matter, Clampett Clapp\nGale, Answan to Nichols, murry, Funch Chanbs the cook, Baron\nAlhelsaum he was menenger to Wacking the, was a Pre 6/77 high\n17\nIt was who early in Sumber, L the we eval quite thick in the boy\nat the mouth of Aquia Creek, Ive had no boution the Elizabeth mitable\nfor landing goods; the E- couldnet ame up to the whf- the\nwho such a prem of government furnen; w we forwed a protone\nfrom the offer in change of the ponton Fram, butther fouts were\nall prozen in at the mouth of the quk, 20 me maning I had the\n2d I mate I the q- 2 two on three men came whose, with the\nbugest hallyands They had, L we got and are of the\n& and the mate found an the ice, with the hallyards he would\ngo half three length would ther cut a hole through h the in, hith in\na part of an run, hirh the Hork to N,d then are in the bout would\nLaul away, thus fis\nbraking the ice dam & Lauling the bout area the washed ice L water,\ntill are came up to the flork, then the mate would ahead again\nα get w new hold,ni this may we get the fout into open water\nwhere the was my useful to us in getting goods ashue,\nThe 12 fatu /62 the futtle of Fudenchsturg was youg ht, we had\n(that is Im Put anyulf / the diafash of the Cananade 2 know\nthe was a buttle being fought 12 mbs away, ine wheted Junn\nour three large quantity of much things as would be must\nunful an a futtle Juld d dad them ready to load on the can as\ntoon as we should get word frome AnAndreus to and them, he 2\nClampett were at the Junt, We wanted two or thee days for\nbut nine come, finanly Mr Fay mayer of Chilua 2 why agent of\nMass whicher, appeared he and that thee was a great fattle\nbeing fought ner less was very heavy, L that supplier would\nbe nuchd evon, hit as get must of the wounced We an the\nother will of the non he left with me onne $6000 money\n18\nbelonging to Man soldies, who me going ruto fattle d wanted it\nouth h their families, the are a great and of hier wrapt in\na newspaper, I his in away in box until I had a chance\nto end. it to Washington by Appheltsum the meninger who came\ndown in a day or two, it was his Just Inp d. the Int time y even\nsaw on heard of him, I I gave him the meney of a letter for Mr\nKnapp explaining the care, telling An that the\nwas some thing valuate 2 to take god canef N, it went Through all\nught. About this time Dr Andrews appeared he and that there whe\nno supphir needed at the Junt, that the medical department had every thing\nthat was wanto; I think it WM that my evening that some one came\nto WI 2 and there were same wounded men, in a pright can an a\nride track, who were hi need of good care; Sr. Andrew upher that\n\"we did not kup a ruthers ship ht me say here what I thought\nat the time, that he who d-d mhuman cull, & I have never had\nwase to change my from Ian Tuk α I took a Canter food\nLumi,L whit h the frught can where we found rural wounded\nmen & shone dead all in total darkness, we gave them what me\nfining a bottle of while I asked who was misile, d was too that\nhad which they summer very thankful for as I oat an a affirm box\nN was Majir Williand 35 Marl I knew him quite well, he was a piend\nof my Cousen Mois there was a tale your in an overcout, with 5\nN.H.m his hat, I achid him if he could tile me any thing of ColCano\n5AH. I head li was hills, he end be was Col lurs, 2 was cuffering\nfrom the wounds, which mach 13 which be had und during the war\nI invited him to came pan the might with us but he declined, co after\ndoing what me could Jon them we Within, the next morning\nI helped toget 20 the which who had change of Maj Willard\n19\nto get transportation for the body, but they would ml let the mem\ngo. I think it was that morning on the next that a large party\nof the Jan Comm under In Douglan ceme June Wallington\non a special steament with them It lot Lulyer two Inceter\nwho I knew at Ft Minsoe, with a number of Army surgums.\nThe goods that I had packeo were ready It go, L were Just an the\ncaro 2 many mne with them 2 and w the Junt, I went wfarth\nmore that afternom, our troops As me them in Fudericksburg\nthey crossed over to our will the same night. The who a uch young\nman by the name of Wood June N.Y. a volunteer in the Jan Camm, he\nwas any deserved to qu over the ever as he had ulations who\ntwenty wants to go, w we started both of in mounted I was uding\nAntitem, the dear lettle home I had at Thar feturg, we crosid on the\nJunton hidge, there mere two ilone I each then, the streets in the\ncity Franklel to the min were Jull of coldien, packed in like\noardren infantry I anything, all jumbelio the ther while\nthe up fun the min. which crued be such\nby the every antitlery were the uh mee dropping a hell\nnito the city atout once a minute, to anny us, 2 amere themeelves,\nwe rode up one of the sheets nunning of Junn the infer, until we gon\ninto the outskirts of the town, guite near the utel lines which we\ncould du quite planely. me we we atopped by a Lt Col who was in\ncommand the Juckinguard, he July inquired whree in here we\nwere going < who we were Wood and we belonged to the Ian\nComm x that be writed k go a little further, we a house which\nbelonged to a relative of his, the Cr mid of we went any further are And\ndraw the fre of the wts, d they had ten abot at enough, then 2 wanted to\nKnow why we was not in unform, we said that we never were any, he\n20\ntold to go back the way me came, 2 when we got where we\nbelonged to stay these, & w we two Jools went as we were duestio, the\nwisest thing we could do as are had no Kind of business where we are\nI remand in camp that might,2 our earny crossed The rance might toking at\nthe Junton tudges. The next morning, I outeo John Foxer 10 N.H he\nwas acting adjutions dad them over the ever, he went with me June the\n36 Mass of which by brother in law the Canfuld Was haplain\nm frunt him all right though be had tun over the mor mary that\nwant four never come backs. I think I uturned to Agena luh that\nafternoon, & that night on the next night I went up t the funt (Falmouth)\nwith a can load of stree at falmouth the I fund a colored boy\ncounting for me with Antitam, the boy was h umain guard the ther\nuntil moming d was h will wh to camp, but I must the way in the\ndarkness, 2 road about In two hours through this clubing army,\nthink I was only challanged once during the whole time d I could\nnot Jaid any me awake to inquire the way of, the whole army was\ncompletely tried out by a weeks marching Jug thing finaly I found\nour camp & after leaving my home with are of the when try I\nconnacter. I returned to Agena Creek the next day where I\ncrawded into the tent 2 Cacle myself away among my eleeping\nunamed most of the unter, the whended wave Ent by rail to Ag.Cr-\na few creeks they whe all movid, there was a large tent herpital estakehed\nas fact as they were atte to he moved, d June the by bont to Warling ten d in\nabout 3 mulu June m at Nindmile Pt. for the with 2\nthey had the at one time some 10.000 min we emplaid their\nwith many Sanitary stores during the writer\nIt was a very dull life for us at the Cauk during the antio there\nWas no place togo Lundays or everyings on any other time, occasionally\n21\nfor would have a ude on horseback, as we whe quite well of\nfor Inus, I can wh give a details account of our unter with\nbut will give a few mudiuts as I can umemba them; we had a the\nat falmouth where me kept the on Joun men, 2 there were June 6 h 10\nof at the Guk, we had nine tunke just up in our have which made\nit mne comfortable 2 a goent easing of room. One night I had turned in\nin me of the middle banks, leaving up a party of four playing such\nI went h Heep L it being I'me what warm, I much have Julio of\nune of the two clother, d exposed that Jast of my person where syranger are und\nfor I know the was one und an me which water me up, I looked oven\nthe will of my bank for the guilty me, but there cat the four eacher\nplayers in the game not a smile in there faur, I thought the\nfair wat more thank I could whip d I thinks hate to whit the\nwrong and, w I said nothing e was som asle f again.\nApphillann will to luh in one of uffer end bunks, as they was\nonly 6/t long his fut Injutio at least two feet, I unember Watter\ntrying h delodge him one might by climbing up an the smk, getting\nfliffer in to the smith traking it down d tiping a June of water over him.\nhold of one her bys, but from Walter was know over by one of those mighty\nBut nen life was very dull L minotinous, me had enough to do in the day\nissuering upplies that was my department, Jurgeon would come your Reg\nher petale In and make out arguistions for what they need I would\nfamily them as far as forethe with flaubets quilk underclathing rocks\nfannaceur good, liques No, this last I had to ure my am\nin giving I could generally tell my a maint looks whether he wanted is for hmmly\non his patients, of he was the uch man he get but little d it had to lash\nhim long; but I think the uik got the benefit of must of the things\nthat were issued, I reached that the Lurgurs 2 offer were widen the\n22\nsome as the enhited men, L if they nucled any of there things they the\nentitled Is them, 2 I tred t me liberally of every thing except aquir\n20 that all might have the the benefit of what was guen.\nThe I.ll. at the Cruck, camel to us are day, L said he had requestion for\n5000 Inc of socks v he had name, L he wanted t form of M promium\nh utum them when he and draw them; we ht him have them 2 they\nwere using In the men 2 charges to them, the min um Jand by in\nthe rocks that are put my the fain Knitter of the ricks, that They came through\nthe Jan Comm & the was a quite a breeze atout in that Jan Cann nas\nselling things to the IM. department, but I thank they whom learned the true\nstute of the care d were enterped. Weentestanid a good deal of company\nduring the winter feople going to d June the army t ru their prends the\nI.M. would Ind us every me he and not know what to do with are\nfeasfully itrmy day he ant in two young women Penn, they had\nsome 20 large foxes of things for the wider L they had come with\nthem to give them h the loye themeloer, they and not believe in the\nSom Cam, on Christian lom, In any whif Carp they and we\ngother the things all at ourselves, I raw in was meles to casm with them\nbut said I would give them what anustance I and we had In keep them\nIme days, L the were unal other women three at the lame time\nα they had the kititen at might for three accomedation but am my\nI eny they und the coal scuttle Thage forts for for which they\nwere never intended; after the stem class off I had there good loaded\non a can & they went with them to Falmouth, the next day they\nreturned Indan 2 were women, they could know nch do any thing all\nthe country was one ua of nund, they did notwhere they wanted of go\n2 could nit got hansfortation h go the w they left the 20\nfoxes at Falmoth the making then nen to the Aqt of the Lan learn\n23\nAt this some time we had a when June Mich who had come\nto look ut her Instand who who with in horps, he was a soldier of a\nMuch Reg, this dette woman was a very nice httle tody, 2 the had to\numain with we thru days, she minded the boy. clother 2 wehe d made\nherely generally uneful, after the tom was over we unt a man to look\nup her husband who found him in Rey horpt, an being tow that his worfe\nhad come for him he and what he hell has the came for\". The next\nday the woman went her ulf to where her hustand was, returned with\nhim in a Inc Anyl having got his chichanges whe saw that her mean\ncouldn't go to was again, nit They mere pg thing an the door tif\nI think N was during this sime stem that a young man a coldier\nof a Mass Reg came down from the Just an his way. home, he was our\non Just when a telegram come to his the Reg laying that his wife had\nteen comprud & the child was dead the was not expected to\nfrass get him a furlough 2 and In him h come in 12 started him an\nhis way home, he get of Me hi the afternow in a driving Innu cten, lock\nthrough 2 about played out, for want of duf 2 exectement, we\ngave hm your any letter, Just him I the next morning the\nstorm WM very two, 2 it was and that the trut would not go to Wachney\nif it and they could take no more hamingus, but I was frand that\nthis young men should go, there were half a dozen quarde in the\nmy to heep puple away June the boat, but I was known as Aqt of the Ian Can\n2 I would tell my they It the quarde 2 they would ht us Jan, but the\nLandut was at the foot where they whe there when but I too my\nstory, 2 about the man on to the boat, 2 stayed there until is atuded\nIt and h he a favounte amusement in dark moght for some one to\nfall off the why- into the water, I think we had halfadoz brought\nIM in the coune of the writer, my trainment was smple but time\n24\ndry clother. 2 Just to tw, with dore of half a tumber of whichy 2a\ntablesfumpell of jamaca inger, never know it fail, the Cart can\nI had was after In Kerlin came, L he never Tergare me for taking\nthe care out of this Lands, I Ingot that he was a doctor d should have\nbeen anoulted. We had Mayor Fay of Chelren I this Gelem at our\nplace during the uniter, I thank they were birth at Falmouth the\ntime of the fattle L me with us in the spring, where the when ann them\nat the put they would my \"now there is going I- he a fight, Mr Tay was\na Ime looking maddle aged man, with long dair down in his shoulders, Miss\ngelow was a pretty little woman of 259 should my the had been w\ngrownen in Mr Fayr family, they were both cannet worker 2 the\nfriends of the whenes, I and Un this Gilm tyne, in May 62 at\nFt Mineoe, then in the Jull I met her at Harpen Ferry, atrah\nthat time the had ten under Jone, the home of her ambreance\nfalhed up, a which battery was shelling the fact of the Juild where\nshe was, hit the shined no more Jean than a octuan when 2 the\nhas under Inc for I ame time. I thank in was during that meminate\ntom that I have alludid to that me had our lodge Jule of when\namong the was an ow man of 60 L his two sms, he was a June to\nman 2 tork care of the nik, all there where tone with in Instinced\nto he, of couse these were Time skulkers, hit a men may hea coward\nto day, d a hers next wash, on the rune day, it is so of whole\nReg 2 Carp. take the 15219 Caps at Cechn Creek I/w hi the Jull of 64\nwhen Theridan met them a dmmalued mot, L two hours afternade\nthey were minutle orthin who was a great battle from the very,\nmen that Whiped therm in the morning, the uhl presoness sand you\nin was who communded of the Corpe, and In Therefore Wim they\nhad rempresements you, has many? one mem Gen Weight I think\n25\nmet on the Julu, \"we are tady whiped\", \"I we you are Incd\nbut turning In the Therrong whichers, \"the men are not\"\nbut this in a digniman, 2 as I unti this June 12.1888 Thirdenn u probly\non his death bio. One day during the writer a soldier was\nfound under me of the buldings of the 2 m, Dept. all must dead June\nex Janure he Institly was mane, we took him in, washed him chend\nhim in clean clother, d took the tut care we anto of him but he\nonly low a few days; another care of a great stundy artithing mean\nwho was taken with dropsy only a wuh before, he was floutes\nhe had his discharge 2 was m his way home, we tork care of him\nover might, he was Peter Reynolds special charge, & we smt him\nin his way hi the merning of crusse there are Includual metances\nbut we was he Youring many my day When the Hundred Jun the battle\nof Here being meved, we had an organised custim of whit\nd all those who needed it were -led d anited in may way in an\nhowen; during the united must every day, inch would anite by Iran\nto take the boat In Washington, we tork cane of them until the boat\noniled, α we had one man Engene Fay as special whif I look out by\nday L might for waits. strays d June for them 2 help them in then\nway The only change I had daring the units was a trip\nm the the bout Elugatith for thes, I umained the a Jew days L\nreturned an the mail bout, I think is was in March I went\nin charge of the Eligateth h It Monsor, Norfock 2 Newfust News;\na hast of the army were Just an hansforte, unt In New port News\nwhat they, went there were for, is more them I Know, I thank is was one\nof there know nothing mores, thank they forced I saw John Faxon\nat Newpert If he was A.D.C, on Gen getty staff α was hi the\nhouse that Was Gm Manifulds HD Ins in May 62, L where I law Genell\n26\nwho gave me an account of the Memmai Jight α we recepied\nthe Ime have mi Jepr/64 as HD 2ns when I was A.D.C of the stuff of\nGen mild. In the principal worm of this house are the marks where a bolb\nshill from the Menimar came thing h the with diaginally ,as Gen Manepillo\nout unting at a tath, the shell struck under the manthpeace an when\nwas a fittle of with, in und the bottle against the whing without broking in\nbut apled the mk, marks of which conto te rune in my day the shell did\nnuh explode α no me was hurt, Gen M- in telling me tony eard, thought when\nthe crash came if the did thing does not ex Inlode I am rafe.\nI think that Getty Dw went ofen to Norfot α Suffork I know they\nwhe there in full of 63 When I went into the army.\nWe distributed mupplies to the ordien in the puts, I think If helpt\nat Partmath Hampton, d Tt Look Out, then utemid to\nAuguin Cruk. Imust now relate the most unpleasent part\nof my expensive with the I am Com, 2 I shall endurer to tell the\nhuth d wh down naught in malue, ful I think injustice h myself\nI much state what I think is the In Keshine who Just in change\nat Aquin Cank une time in January /63 he was a handsome little\nman of 280030 pun Philadelphia where he him was and Jurgun mi an Juit\nAnglum under on Parcih, who had taken, a foom boy, educated him 2\nbrought him up 2 made him what he was, this I knew at the time, but I learned\nafterwirds that Kerlin, got for Parcih umand, d he got his place this happend\nafter my explemance with Kerlin, but I Just in have to show the character\nof the man, who I think was a d.d hy point, he animed th he very\nIncur L moral & was great imging hymns, do not think he undertork to\nIray, but he was thanked with the character 2 underet of three under\nhim at the Creck, I unember his taking Baadford to tack for\nsmoking in fact no me could place him, he trued to get us to Jy\n17\non 20ml each other, 2 repeart h him what ever happend aming the party 2 he\ngot of them In do it, he was for effect. he wanted all cause which why mas\ngiven I he witten out, as Bradherd saw it would take two men to until\nout what one man did Jushafe he was night t a certain extent in that,\nJushape the Jan Pan had objed the scripture myunction too litterally\nin not letting the right hand know what the left land had given help.\nBut he contruct It make hmulf generally hateful by his creeping underhard ways,\nde world jke L June round amen like a letter, L half an have afterwinds\nAnd hum a letter discharging him with orders h upat at the office at\nWashington 2 while he was the must 2 June he was suffering\nfune a complaint that he he un tracted on me of his units In Warkington Which\nhe would net have had of had tan as bestures as he Instincted, I have\nno drutt he felt June at that time, for When the denl is rich, the\ndevil a much would te, when the devil was will the dune a mark ase was he\nFinally he, began to discharge the men one after the other his model\nU lerandi was as follow, he would go up h Falmouth leaving a letter\nfor his oictim, with orders h upat an the office ah Washington,\nthe man would be gone when Kerlin relusned in a\nday an two, 2 began with Watters them Peter Reynolds.\nBrackford, Bacar, Muny x urral then where names I can not\nKnaph 2 Mr Ulmsted were at the west α had been\nremember in Ane/63 I was guine my walking taket, Mn\nthe for reveral months I was only waiting for there utum\nh ack to be ulined & amigned h duty seme where else; I\nreported h In Jankins wh the frie at naching. ten, L was informed\nby him that my usoices whe no longer uguined no I went home\n2 worked in my farm till July /60 when Mr Knapp telegraphs\nme June Baltimane at the time of the fattle of Gettyshing\n28\nto come on at once to Baltimme, α I want.\nI mill day hue that all the men that Kerlin discharged\nwere Hinstated except Gersham Bradford who goha\nplace on the Coach Survey con after he left the Jan ban\n& he has usen to he a Cash m that resoice a very usoperbin\nprotection; the other men were with InDouglass at Gettyburg\n& ni his reput he Insured them all very highly for then\nfudility 2 ability, the raid that he did nch dem better\nmen. Kenlin may umamed a Inc week longer, he had\nmade humself so unpopulun, with the I.ll. Department 2\narmy offers generally, that at the time of the fattle of Charcellande\nhe this helplen could mh get transportation for the on get any\nhelp from the military department, α he either ungned, on was\nrent have w his cdits I do not know which.\nI full that we were all heated any badly by Keshin, I do\nnot think he had any wase to discharge any of us except\nWalter who was internfusate, α if 2 had taken a defferent\ncousse with him, in might have been better.\nfor I and my apportment of 22 In 2A6 colner herps\nmy stay at Baltimore was chart only about a fortneght\nwhat we did the Qur Hd 2uss whe at Ealaw House\nfrom Gan Held; but I will give a shut account of\nBaltimore, 2 an dutui were 1-Jurnuh, 2 Joward are\nkind of upplur to can against an the July a Gettystang\nWe had a definst of come $50.000 at me of the Banks\nno object, every call that was made on of we part\n2 every thing that we hat net get we brught, money was\nof supply money could buy it, the wants of the suffering roder was\n29\nTo now what energy 2 force Mr Knaph full mto his work\nI will relate a little mucher. days before l jamed him\nat Battemore, Mr Knaph wd. a teleasan an 11-30 Pm\nSunday might fun Mr Chirtend unying Sand 4 saddle\nhoner h Fucknich City No, by dayloght Minday morning\nthe 4 horses were on the road h Fredenich, Mr Hrapp muter\nup in the middle of the might the owners of the hines, trug we\nthem, also Indian for he had to buy the equipments as\nwill as the hener, I do not know as he made good tracher\nevery true, douth if he did, One morning he raid to me I\nwant you to try 5 /m homes, 5 pm harmenes, L 5 wagens h\nmed h Fuderich City the afternown, I Johns the hure at\na rule table 2 largamed Jun then 2 2nd them trought up\nto the Entare House for the Hnalth to w, hit he would\nnot look wh them, he 2nd funj your own full we paid\n$2450 for the 10 hour, I never heart hno they turned\nout but they were nee looking hour, L the hat them an the\nwas that afternom. We not olnly tought haves wagned\nbut much every thing you can think of medical mpplies.\nare muture where we were telegraphed for\neather, in was Tunday afternom Mr Knopp bought a\npropricture were not the clerck charged monethen\nlarge quaritity at an Apothecary of a clerch as the\nUr knopp understand that they have to shaw in the\ndouble the much June thinking that he the made\nsteal MrK- thrught it was nith all ught, L new the\nInstructor monday morning, & had it made\nblack had take his walking ticket.\nV7\n30\nI can not remember thing that occured during\nmy tuy at for it is 26 years ago, but we\ndid a grut amount of fuseness, every are that was the\nconnection with the army in any way that was in\ntruble cause to as 2 the helped them of we could.\nIt The was a great change after I went into the army.\nm San Chunn We did every thing that any me acked\nwh do of we could,in the army it was just the then\nhelp it, to be sure mat of the applicants for faver were\nway, we new sw any thing for any are if we could\nnets. which made a defference I mee new\nclose, perhape urne are a hundred gear pm nnd\nof any thing the I will ut N down.\nmay wad the with interest. hope they may. if I think\nWaldo 7. Hayward.\nmalpole N.H. August 11. 1889"
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