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Camp Jenkins 154th N. Y. Vols Lookout Valley Term. Saturday Jan. 2d 1864
Dear Parents,
I seat myself this 2d day of the new Year to inform you that I am well and enjoying myself very well concidering this cold day. I expect you have ere this time received my letter that was written when we first got back here, at least I hope you have for it had been some time then since I had written, on account of the long march we had.
We are in the same Camp as when I wrote last, have get put up good Winter Quarters and everything comfortable for a Soldier to have, that is I mean that he expects to have, Hard Tack Bacon sugar and Coffee sometimes Beans and desecated vagtables and Beef two iays out of three, this constitutes our rations and we generaly get enough of this, we get an order once in a while of some of the Officers and go to the Commissaries and buy flour and other stuf sugar and the like, you know I like Sugar,
I have an excelent apetite so Hard Tack taste as good as pie and cake would if I was without an apetite. I can eat most anything that is holesome. Mart Shannon Amos Kysor and myself Tent togather, have
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| Title | Marcellus W. Darling papers, 1864 |
| Creator | Darling, Marcellus W. |
| Date Original | 1864 |
| 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 |
| Topical Subject (LCSH) |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 Sherman's March to the Sea |
| Personal Name Subject | Darling, Marcellus W. |
| Corporate Name Subject | United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 154th (1862-1865) |
| Geographic Subject |
United States United States -- Georgia |
| Chronological Subject | 1860-1870 |
| 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 |
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