Letter from Augustus Hesse, Camp Chase, Ardlington [sic] Heights, Virginia, to Deborah Weston, October 26th, 1862

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Title:
Letter from Augustus Hesse, Camp Chase, Ardlington [sic] Heights, Virginia, to Deborah Weston, October 26th, 1862
Author:
Hesse, Augustus, d. 1867
Addressee:
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Date:
October 26, 1862
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Weston, Deborah, b. 1814
Hesse, Augustus, d. 1867
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 leaf (4 p.) ; 7 1/4 x 5 5/8 in.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/qz20tw17j
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Place of origin:
Camp Chase, Ardlington [sic] Heights, Virginia
Language:
English
Notes:
Holograph, signed.
In this letter, Augustus Hesse says that most of the infantry regiments have left for other quarters, but four new regiments arrived today. When the friendly Pennsylvania Keystone Battery, which had been part of their company, left, the captain gave the order to fire a salute. Augustus Hesse volunteered to go with the mule team to get firewood and found wooden houses, ruined and abandoned by the rebels, which they are using for firewood. Last Sunday, Hesse took a walk to General Lee's former residence, now the headquarters of General Heintzelman. A former slave at this place told Hesse about the marriage and property of General Lee. Hesse includes inscriptions from the graveyard on the property.
Identifier:
3133543
Call #:
Ms.A.9.2 v.31, p.23
Barcode:
39999066784297
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