Manuscript Database
Creator/Title
Ferdon, Andrew to "Dear friend Maggie", no place- Louisville, Ky. 3 March 1863. ALS, 2 pp.
Call No.
Mss. C F
Content
Letter from Andrew Ferdon, who was recovering from injury at a hospital in Louisville during the Civil War, possibly a combat related wound as there is strong indication he was serving with a Union regiment. He describes the doctors, saying they are "as mean as Satan himself. " He mentions the "excitement about the siege of Vicksburg" and says "Grant is preparing to surround the city." He believes if Grant is successful, and if Burnside manages to take Fredericksburg, then Richmond will fall within three months and the war will be over within six months. He reports that there are "few deaths in this hospital" and mentions that of the patients on his ward "there is 1 with erysipelas, 1 with consumption, 1 with typhoid fever, and some that are about well."