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"Thought you might enjoy a few quotes from my great
grandfather's letters. Allen D. Pease was
born and reared in Canandaigua and moved to Michigan in 1861 and joined the
6th Michigan Cavalry in 1862. His father, Simeon,
is buried in the Pioneer Cemetery in Canandaigua. The first excerpts are
from a letter written just after the Kilpatrick-Dalghren raid to Richmond."
Yorktown
Va.
Feb. [Should be March.] 6th 1864
...The
148 New York Infantry is doing garrison duty here in
Yorktown
.
I was up there and staid all night with Hank Squires.
I see Mark Swift. He
looks bully and I see Dick Foster and Tim Wyville, Al Butterfield, George
Freer and lots of boys from Canandaigua.
They were all well. They
have been in the service as long as I have and never been in a fight or
see one. I had a good visit
with them and I shall go up there again this afternoon.
I don’t know how long we are to stay here.. ..
[undated]
....Charley
Pease was over to see me yesterday. He
was quite well and feel[s] quite contented for a new soldier.
He is in the 2d New York Cavalry.
He says Jane Squires is a regular prostitute.
She was in
Elmira
amongst the soldiers doing duty regular as such things always do well.
I am sorry for Hank and the child but I have no pity for her.
Well she ain’t my wife. If
she was she would rue the day she ever sold her virtue.
I would make the world all a hell to her and the men in it all
devils to her .... It is awful for a married woman with children to act so
but it don’t belong to my affairs...
Upperville, Virginia
....I
got a letter from Mother. She
was well and one from Amelia. She
wrote that Hal Sheldon was married to Beldon, Maggie Bell to George Sage,
Laura Caeby to Hank Stall and Allen Burgess to Ruth Hall.
They all run away. Mr.
Hall over took them and brought Ruth back home.
It must have been a hot old time there.
Mother wrote that the boys were all drunk when they got married...
Warrenton
Junction, August 8th, 1863
I
have been to
Washington
and drawed me another horse. I
see Steph Whitwell, Norman Foster, Daniel Simmerman, Damon Morse.
I was where Henry Beaument['s] and Robert Skellenger[‘s] regiment
was in camp but their company had gone to Alexandria to take some pontoon
bridges down. The next
morning we came back here. I
see Oak Meafie in
Alexandria
. He told me all about the
boys getting married and himself and Carniel. He is to work with his
brother in the government rail road shop.
I see Wm. Macmiles, Mack’s son.
He is going as third assistant engineer on a gun boat.
He was armorer for the company...
I
hope you find these of interest."
contributed by Eloise
Haven
Html by Dianne Thomas
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