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Dear Mother as I was writing to Lib i thought i would put in a line to you Cel is in the divishion hospital it is nearly a mille from here the nearest way we moved our camp the other day and we have been buisey cleaning it up i was very sorry to have the boys leave camp where I can't take care of them my self but i go to see them every day i think that Cel is doing first rate they did not feel quite as well last night but they had been taking medicine and a medic i am going down after the mail comes in i dont [?] very [terrible?] about Cel but Monroe dont get along he has been sick some time longer than Cel has and i think he is [running?] down all the time i don't think they no what [?] him at al but Cel had the camp [fetch?] the doctor ses he will [?] Cel now
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| Title | Marcellus W. Darling letters, 1865-1892 |
| Creator | Darling, Marcellus W. |
| Date Original | 1865/1892 |
| Description | Marcellus Warner Darling was a native of New York. He enlisted in Company K, 154th New York Volunteers on September 6, 1862. The 154th saw a great deal of action during the Civil War. Darling was wounded in the battle of Chancellorsville, was subsequently captured and later escaped. While his regiment was fighting at Gettysburg, Darling was hospitalized with typhoid fever. He fought in the battles at Lookout Mountain and Chickamauga, and participated in the taking of Atlanta, Savannah, and Charleston, during General Sherman's march to the sea. After the war, he was a college professor and later a minister in Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Among his children was cartoonist Jay Norwood Darling. |
| Topical Subject (LCTGM) |
War Soldiers Prisoners of war |
| Topical Subject (LCSH) | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 |
| Personal Name Subject | Darling, Marcellus W. |
| Corporate Name Subject | United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 154th (1862-1865) |
| Geographic Subject | United States |
| Type (DCMIType) | Text |
| Type (AAT) | Correspondence |
| Type (IMT) | jpeg |
| Digital Collection | Civil War Diaries and Letters |
| Contributing Institution | University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Dept. |
| Archival Collection | Marcellus Warner Darling papers |
| Collection Identifier | MSC0236 |
| Collection Guide | http://lib.uiowa.edu/collguides/?MSC0236 |
| Box Number | 1 |
| Rights Management | Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this digital image. Commercial use or distribution of the image is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. |
| Contact Information | Contact the Special Collections Dept. at The University of Iowa Libraries: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/contact/index. |
| Digitization Specifications | Scanned with Ricoh Aficio 2335 Scanner at 600 ppi, 24-bit color. Master image available in tiff format. |
| File Name | index.cpd |
| Identifier | 318580551286775 |
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| Title | 00_1865-01-Page 01 |
| File Name | 318580551286775_00_1865-01-Page 01.jpg |
| Full Text | Dear Mother as I was writing to Lib i thought i would put in a line to you Cel is in the divishion hospital it is nearly a mille from here the nearest way we moved our camp the other day and we have been buisey cleaning it up i was very sorry to have the boys leave camp where I can't take care of them my self but i go to see them every day i think that Cel is doing first rate they did not feel quite as well last night but they had been taking medicine and a medic i am going down after the mail comes in i dont [?] very [terrible?] about Cel but Monroe dont get along he has been sick some time longer than Cel has and i think he is [running?] down all the time i don't think they no what [?] him at al but Cel had the camp [fetch?] the doctor ses he will [?] Cel now |
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