Manuscript Database
Creator/Title
Strong, John E. Letter, 18 December 1862. 3 pages.
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Mss. C S
Content
A letter written during the Civil War by John E. Strong, a musician in Company G of the 121st Ohio Infantry. Strong writes to his brother and sister, Joel and Martha Ellen Watson of Springfield, Illinois, from Columbia, Kentucky on 18 December 1862. Strong brags about his weight gain while in the army. He also writes about playing the fife at the funerals of fellow soldiers; that Daniel Ayers came to retrieve the corpse of his brother David; how some of the officers' wives who are residing in a nearby town offer to darn the socks of the soldiers; and fashioning rings out of laurel root, which is plentiful in the area.