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Artist
A.W. [Alvin W.] Lamb
1842 - 1863
DateJuly 23, 1862
Terms
- Letters
- Ink
- Paper
- Harrison's Landing
Dimensions16.5 × 13.33 cm (6 1/2 × 5 1/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Robert R. Voigt (1999)
Object number2000.19.3
DescriptionAutograph letter, signed; A.W. Lamb to his sister, Helen Lamb, from Harrison's Landing on July 23, 1862 (Civil War). Discusses the hot weather; General McClellen reviewing the troops; Morell; Butterfield; Porter's Corps; speaks about trading gunfire with the enemy; transports being fired on; and gunboats silencing them; mentions friends or family? by the names of Frank, Alfred, and Nathaniel; discussions of different kinds of food; thanks his sister for sending stamps and writing paper.
Transcription (Carol Haines, 2010):
25th 1862
Harrisons Landing July
Dear Sister
I received your letter this morning and was glad to hear from you. I hope when you write again that father’s cough will be better. I am well and hope these few lines will find you all the same. We have had quite a long spell of weather (as the Irishman says) without any rain, it has been awful hot. It is tiptop hay weather here. Mcclellen has been reviewing the army here to day it took about an hour and a half for the army to pass or march in review what was reviewed to day was Morells and Butterfields division or what is called Porters corps it is the fifth ^ army corps. We had a review last night by General Porter (IE) morels division of which we belong. The story has been in camp that our pickets had been fired on but there was’nt any truth in it some of our transports have been fired into coming up the river the rebels had a battery planted about a mile and a half down the river but the gunboats have silenced them. The monitor lies about two miles from here up stream. I saw her to day I have’nt seen Frank for about a fortnight it will be a fortnight Sunday he sent word to me yesterday by one of our boys that was down where he is to his camp that if I would come down there he would go with me to see Alfred and Nathaniel. I think now that I shall go down there to morrow They sell cheese at 30 cts a lb by the whole sale pies 50 cts a piece other things in proportion. The 28th map [mass?] boys cleared or rather cleaned out their sutter [sutler?] yester morning he sold things so dear dier that they wouldn’t stand it they charg three cts for these molasses cakes such as you can get at the bakers for a cent. I don’t think I shall patron ise a sutter very much not as long as we have baked beans and boiled rice two or three times a week we draw dried apple. So we can have apple sauce once in a while. I received [?] postage stamps and sheets of paper and am very much obliged to you, as I cannot think of much more to write I wil close by sending my love to you all so good by
Yours truly
From your brother
A W Lamb
Transcription (Carol Haines, 2010):
25th 1862
Harrisons Landing July
Dear Sister
I received your letter this morning and was glad to hear from you. I hope when you write again that father’s cough will be better. I am well and hope these few lines will find you all the same. We have had quite a long spell of weather (as the Irishman says) without any rain, it has been awful hot. It is tiptop hay weather here. Mcclellen has been reviewing the army here to day it took about an hour and a half for the army to pass or march in review what was reviewed to day was Morells and Butterfields division or what is called Porters corps it is the fifth ^ army corps. We had a review last night by General Porter (IE) morels division of which we belong. The story has been in camp that our pickets had been fired on but there was’nt any truth in it some of our transports have been fired into coming up the river the rebels had a battery planted about a mile and a half down the river but the gunboats have silenced them. The monitor lies about two miles from here up stream. I saw her to day I have’nt seen Frank for about a fortnight it will be a fortnight Sunday he sent word to me yesterday by one of our boys that was down where he is to his camp that if I would come down there he would go with me to see Alfred and Nathaniel. I think now that I shall go down there to morrow They sell cheese at 30 cts a lb by the whole sale pies 50 cts a piece other things in proportion. The 28th map [mass?] boys cleared or rather cleaned out their sutter [sutler?] yester morning he sold things so dear dier that they wouldn’t stand it they charg three cts for these molasses cakes such as you can get at the bakers for a cent. I don’t think I shall patron ise a sutter very much not as long as we have baked beans and boiled rice two or three times a week we draw dried apple. So we can have apple sauce once in a while. I received [?] postage stamps and sheets of paper and am very much obliged to you, as I cannot think of much more to write I wil close by sending my love to you all so good by
Yours truly
From your brother
A W Lamb
Object number: 2008.10.99
September 11, 1942