Headquarters 3rd Div
24th A.C. March 29th 1865
My own dear Wife
In writing to night I am but keeping my promise to write more often. Nothing of any great interest has transpired with me since I wrote you last. All of our Corps has gone away except our Div. The Div Headq’r’s. are removed to the old ones of the Corps I now occupy the house used by the Gen. all winter. I am left here to take care of the place in event that they have to move back. beside my men are here & I have to stay with them. My quarters are plenty roomey and comfortable enough to have my/wife here, but I hardly think it would pay to come for I might not be here when you got here. Things will be very uncertain for the next sixty days at the end of which time I hope the war will be over & I at home with Mamie. I hear that “Abe” Brown is dead. & that he left helana penniless lucky for me that I did not marry her. She was a good girl in some respects
Thursday Morning
Last night when I left off the stillness of the night was broken by heavy canonading in the direction of Petersburg. I have not heard yet what was “up” Probably another reb attack/
I must close this so as to mail it to day. Write often
Courtland.
(295) | DL0011.113 | 16 | Letters | 1865-03-29 |
Letter from First Lieutenant Courtland G. Stanton, 21st Connecticut Infantry, Headquarters 3rd Division, 24th Army Corps, March 29, 1865, to his wife Mary
Tags: Death (Home Front), Fighting, Money, Siege of Petersburg
Courtland G. Stanton to Mary E. Lewis, 29 March 1865, DL0011.113, Nau Collection