Following the American Civil War Sesquicentennial with day by day writings of the time, currently 1863.

Monday, June 16, 2014

Colonel Lyon’s Letters.

 

Claysville, Ala., June 16, 1864.—I send this by Lieutenant Balis, who goes to Woodville in the morning with the remains of his brother, who died this afternoon of pneumonia. He was a new recruit, about 35 years old, and leaves a wife and one or two children. He was a frail man and ought not to have gone into the service.