Monday, September 7, 2015

Colonel William F. Bartlett to Harriett Plummer Bartlett, March 9, 1863

Orders to move at once, with two days' cooked and five uncooked rations. No baggage or tents; sixty rounds of ammunition per man. I don't know where we are going, I suppose Port Hudson.

Love to all. Good-by.
W.

SOURCE: Francis Winthrop Palfrey, Memoir of William Francis Bartlett, p. 71

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