Letter : Camp Morewood, New Orleans, to Sam

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Title: Letter : Camp Morewood, New Orleans, to Sam
Creator: Smith, Timothy Z
Contributor: Butler, Benjamin F (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893
Shepley, George Foster, 1819-1878
Smith, Timothy Z
United States Army Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 31st (1862-1865) Company K
United States Army--Military life
Published / Created: 1862 Jul 8
Abstract: Autograph letter, signed, from Private Timothy Z. Smith to "Sam", likely a friend from Smith's hometown. The letter relays general news of Smith's welfare and thoughts on his life as a soldier since volunteering for service five months earlier. Smith also provides a description of the 31st Regiment's station in New Orleans, and brief assessments of the newly appointed military governor of Louisiana, George F. Shepley, and of commanding general Major General Benjamin Franklin Butler.
Description: Gift of Christa Sammons, 2007.
On stationery with engraved letterhead of view of New Orleans.
Timothy Z. Smith, private in Company K, 31st Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, Union Army. The 31st Regiment began occupation of New Orleans on May 1, 1862, and was the first Union regiment to enter the city.
Extent: 1 item (2 p.) ; 26 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: text
Genre: Correspondence
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic): New Orleans (La.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
New Orleans (La.)--Pictorial works
Subject (Name): Butler, Benjamin F (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893
Shepley, George Foster, 1819-1878
Smith, Timothy Z
United States Army Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 31st (1862-1865) Company K
United States Army--Military life
Subject (Topic): Soldiers--Massachusetts

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Citation: Timothy Z. Smith, Letter to Sam. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.