Antietam Iron Works,
79th Regiment,
Sept. 30th. 1862.
My dear Mother:
I send you herewith the copy sent me to-night of Special
Order No. 8 from the Headquarters of the 9th Army Corps. I trust it will afford
you a crumb of comfort. Keep it, if it will be of any use in getting me
recognized in Connecticut. Having always boasted of hailing from that State, I
am considered as a sort of alien in a New-York Regiment. But Connecticut
doesn't appear to trouble herself much about me, so I think it would be better
if you should forward the document to Horace, to whom I have confided the
delicate task of insinuating to my New-York friends that I am really living
still. It might be of some assistance to him.
Have nothing further to add, except that I don't fancy my
old crony Hattie's marrying a widower with three children. Love to all.
Affec'y.,
Will.
SOURCE: William Chittenden Lusk, Editor, War Letters
of William Thompson Lusk, p. 217-8
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