Box 2
Contains 19 Results:
Lewis Henry Brown to Brother (Burritt Brown), November 21, 1861
Posted from Camp Franklin. Remarks that his brother has gotten a job as a teacher at a schoolhouse and assures him that being a teacher is just as treacherous as being a soldier. Brown also writes about the grand review previously mentioned and writes that he and his tent mates built a house.
Lewis Henry Brown to Sister (Ellen Brown), November 27, 1861
Posted from Camp Franklin. Describes the brick chimney that he and his tent mates built inside their makeshift house at Camp Franklin. Brown writes that he is living with all the same comforts as he did at home.
Lewis Henry Brown to Brother (Burritt Brown), December 9, 1861
Posted from Camp Franklin. Thanks him for the big box of supplies that he needed including boots and family photos.
Lewis Henry Brown to Father (Alfred Brown), December 11, 1861
Posted from Camp Franklin. Describes the discharge of one of his friends due to illness. He assures his father that he has not been neglecting his praying since he had gotten to Camp Franklin.
Lewis Henry Brown to Brother (Burritt Brown), 1861
Posted from Camp Franklin. Describes how his friend, Hop, had shot himself in the foot causing his discharge.
Lewis Henry Brown to Sister (Nettie Brown), January 3, 1862
Posted from Camp Franklin. Describes the brutally cold weather on New Year's Day as well as his daily life at Camp Franklin.
Lewis Henry Brown to Father (Alfred Brown), January 8, 1862
Posted from Camp Franklin. Writes that he is not feeling well, though around one fifth of his regiment is sick. Brown also describes the cold weather that he has been enduring.
Lewis Henry Brown to Brother, January 9, 1862
Posted from Camp Franklin. Describes how bare the land is of crops in Virginia. He also writes of a few fellow soldiers in his camp.
Lewis Henry Brown to Merritt Roe, February 23, 1862
Asks how Merritt is doing and remarks that there is no milk to drink where he is.
Lewis Henry Brown to Mother (Mary Brown), February 24, 1862
Posted from Alexandria, VA. Thanks her for the food that she sent him. He also writes about the death of a comrade, but takes comfort in his own religious beliefs.