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"A great correspondence of 76 letters, mostly 8vo. and in pencil, totaling 266pp., written from Dec. 1862 to July 1865 by Union Private Charles Manson, who enlisted in the 12th Vermont at Brattleboro, Vt. in Oct., 1862 and served with this regiment until July 1863. In June 1864 he reenlisted in the 17th Vermont as corporal until being appointed to the color guard in March 1865. Shortly after, he was badly wounded during the fall of Petersburg on April 2, 1865. Manson wrote home continually and provided a graphic history of his experience in the war. In very small part: ""...[Fairfax Court House, Va. Dec. 22, 61]àI was stationed at Bull Run bridge and there is a rope hanging to the limb of a tree where three of Seagal men were hung the 18th day of July two days before the fight I cut a piece and will send a piece to Abbieà[Washington Oct. 12, 62]àthe bullet proof vest that father bought is a grand thing for I took it off and Wm. Page shot at it with his revolver 4 rods off and it did not have any impressionà[Fairfax C. H. Dec. 21, 62]àI wentàover to the Chantilly battle groundàmen are buried just where they fell. Some are not covered over more than a foot deep and legs and arms are sticking out of the groundà[Fairfax C. H. Dec. 31, 62]àCos. B and C were deployed as skirmishers about 12 o'clock the boys were startled by a volleyàand then a skedaddling of cavalry. It seems that Stuart had made a dash with his cavalry supposing that it was only a few pickets. We killed three horses and took one prisoner they...went at full speed back and halted...one piece of our battery toasted a few shell among them but they finding we were too much for them turned and fled and came down with full speed past our camp we expected to be taken but they were afraid to try ità[Occoquan Creek, Va. Mar. 13, 63]àthere was a couple of cavalry [who] went across the creek and one was shot from his horseà[May 3, 63]à3 deserters came in hereàone of our boys Henry McKristy has just came on a Rebel horse he and Wm. Dean was out...they took them and put them on the horses and our cavalry were in pursuit and McKrinsty got away and we have not heard from him yet. Another company has gone in pursuit. They were Mosby's cavalry the same that took Stoughtonà[Rappahannock May 9, 63]àwe took one Reb he belonged to the Black Horse cavalry. He was spying around to find out the force around hereà[Rappahannock May 15, 63]àwe see Rebel scouts across the river almost every dayàone company has to be up every night to prevent being surprised and when on picket we have orders to let no man approachà[Union Mills, Va., June 2, 63]àMosby burned a train loaded with forage there was a lieutenant and 30 men for guard from the 15th and they ran without firing a gun. They are now in Washington under arrestà[Brattleboro, Vt., July 11, 63]àcome very near being in the battle of Gettysburg. We was within 1 1/2 mile from there guarding the Corps wagon trainà[Near Petersburg Sept. 3, 64]àBrooks met with a sad accident he was cutting some hooksàmade a miss blow and cut off two fingers on his left handàOur company had a pretty hard shelling when they first joined the regiment but one man was wounded and he got a minnie ball in his ankleà[Near Petersburg Sept. 9, 64]àWe can hear picket and artillery firing any time day and nightàthere is one or two deserters come in every night and they tell the same story tired and sick of the war. One came in this morning and said he had been 24 days in the rifle pits without being relieved or having a chance to wash. He was just the color of the groundà[Near Petersburg Sept. 14, 64]àwe can hear firing any timeàand once in a while one of their shells will come singing around our camp but they don't come with much force on account of the long rangeà[Near Petersburg Oct. 3, 64]àI am alive and well and not a scratch on me...[Battle of Peeble's Farm] àon the morning of the 1st we were ordered to move and...marched about 7 miles and the 2nd and 5th Corps turned their flank and drove them out of their first line of works and then came the 9th Corps' turn we advanced 2 miles before we came to their 2nd line of works and we charged them but failed to carry them and fell back and laid down in the woods and the shell and balls came inàour pickets came running in and over the top of the knoll. A line of Rebels closed en masse. Our division received their first fire and the balls came like hail we fired at them three volleys and retreated they drove us about 1/4 of a mile and we rallied and drove them back after a sharp fight and held our ground our company went into the fight 45 guns and now number 24àLt. Toban is wounded and I expect prisoners. Our orderly is killedàI have got command of the company. Our Col. Is killed and there is now only one commissioned officers in the reg'tà[Near Petersburg Oct. 9, 64]àwe lost 23 men out of 54 in killed, wounded, and missing. We have got two commissioned officers in the regiment and 120 men. I am in command of the company and have the whole charge of it. It is new business for meàYou have probably read of the narrow escape of Gen. Meade from a shell. Our brigade was supporting that battery and I was within 20 rods of them at the timeà[Near the Pegram House Oct. 30, 64]àWe have had another big fight at the South Side railroad but the 17th was lucky enough to keep out of itàthe thing did not amount to anything as all the troops have come back to their old positionsà[Near the Pegram House Nov. 11, 64]àI am in plain sight of the Rebs and have just asked them what I should say to my Mother for him. He says tell her that we are going to settle up this damned war and then let me go home and see her againà[Fort Davis, Petersburg Dec. 2, 64]àThey have moved us out of our new winter quartersàwhere the fort was blown up and it is the meanest hole in the whole line for there is a constant picket firing at night and artillery through the day and while I write the guns go about once in five minutes they do not fire from this fort but one about 10 rods below here and once below here and once in a while a shell will come a little nearer than is pleasant last night a sergeant in the 31st Maine right beside of us while sitting in his tent was hit with a minie ball it entered at his left shoulder blade and passed through his heartà[Ft. Davis Dec. 5, 64]àThey have moved us down here directly in front of Petersburg the steeples are plainly visible. They keep up a sharp firing on picket all the time at night and every little while our batteries and theirs will have a scrape shelling one another. Last night they had one several shell burst very near the fort no one has yet been hurtà[Ft. Davis Dec. 11, 64]...our picket line in front is only about 10 rods from the Rebs and at night we keep up a constant fire at one another but it don't do any good for we have such good picket pits that they can't hit us and we have post holes to fire through. I was on picket one night and fired away 100 rounds of cartridges but we are allowed to fire only about twenty...you know I always like to be shooting a gun and as the powder don't cost me anything it helps to keep me awakeà[Ft. Davis Dec. 18, 64]àI don't think the ball is made yet that [could] hit me for I have had lots of them fired at me but one of them...put a hole through my cup that was hitched to my haversackà[Ft. Davis Jan. 5, 65]àshelling one anotheràamounts to nothing only to make us dodge behind the breastworks. Corp. R. C. Jimmieàwas wounded and taken prisoner on the 30th of September. He says that Buckman was sent to Georgia with about 40 men that was taken at the same timeàI have just been to see a man hung he belonged to the 179th N. Y. He deserted to the Rebs and our cavalry caught him. I hope they will hang everyone that desertsà[Ft. Davis Feb. 1, 65]à[Vice] President Stephens has come over with a flag of truce I saw him when he came and heard that he brought sealed proposals for peaceà[Petersburg Mar. 31, 65]àWe are having some tall fighting now down on the left near Hatcher's Run and now I can hear the cannonading and musketry it sounds like thunder they was fighting all day yesterday and last night the report was that we had captured the South Side railroad but I don't know how true it is they have got an awful force up there the 5th, 6th, 2nd, 24th and two divisions of Negro Corps...all of Sheridans cavalry is up...[City Point Apr. 3, 65]àWe have had one of the hardest fights of the war and I am wounded on the right leg but not very bad. The ball went into my leg near the thigh from behind and is there now. Our reg't. is awfully cut up I was wounded about 9 o'clock and when I was hit there was not 50 well men in the reg't. and they fought three hours after thatàCorp. Jemmie had both feet blown off by a shell but the doctor though he could save his lifeàWe charged on the Johnnie's forts twice and carried two of them...helping Lt. Henry of Co. K off...I was hit by a minnie ball from a sharp shooter. The 9th Corps carried 8 forts and the first line of works and the report is this morning that we have taken Petersburg and are driving them nowàA grape shot came so near me that it tore my pants clear across...my body and I lost everything I had in my pockets, knife, tobacco, walletà[Montpelier Hospital Apr. 16, 65]àI am here and all right as far as health is concerned but my leg is pretty sore and will be for some time as the bullet is in there yet and probably...always will be. It is doing well now the doctor says it will be healed in three weeksà"". Military and pension records included. Very minor soiling and light staining, else very good." 2425 A great correspondence of 76 letters, mostly 8vo. and in pencil, totaling 266pp., written from Dec. 1862 to July 1865 by Union Private Charles Manson, who enlisted in the 12th Vermont at Brattleboro, Vt. in Oct., 1862 and served with this regiment until July 1863. In June 1864 he reenlisted in the 17th Vermont as corporal until being appointed to the color guard in March 1865. Shortly after, he was badly wounded during the fall of Petersburg on April 2, 1865. Manson wrote home continually and provided a graphic history of his experience in the war. In very small part: ""...[Fairfax Court House, Va. Dec. 22, 61]àI was stationed at Bull Run bridge and there is a rope hanging to the limb of a tree where three of Seagal men were hung the 18th day of July two days before the fight I cut a piece and will send a piece to Abbieà[Washington Oct. 12, 62]àthe bullet proof vest that father bought is a grand thing for I took it off and Wm. Page shot at it with his revolver 4 rods off and it did not have any impressionà[Fairfax C. H. Dec. 21, 62]àI wentàover to the Chantilly battle groundàmen are buried just where they fell. Some are not covered over more than a foot deep and legs and arms are sticking out of the groundà[Fairfax C. H. Dec. 31, 62]àCos. B and C were deployed as skirmishers about 12 o'clock the boys were startled by a volleyàand then a skedaddling of cavalry. It seems that Stuart had made a dash with his cavalry supposing that it was only a few pickets. We killed three horses and took one prisoner they...went at full speed back and halted...one piece of our battery toasted a few shell among them but they finding we were too much for them turned and fled and came down with full speed past our camp we expected to be taken but they were afraid to try ità[Occoquan Creek, Va. Mar. 13, 63]àthere was a couple of cavalry [who] went across the creek and one was shot from his horseà[May 3, 63]à3 deserters came in hereàone of our boys Henry McKristy has just came on a Rebel horse he and Wm. Dean was out...they took them and put them on the horses and our cavalry were in pursuit and McKrinsty got away and we have not heard from him yet. Another company has gone in pursuit. They were Mosby's cavalry the same that took Stoughtonà[Rappahannock May 9, 63]àwe took one Reb he belonged to the Black Horse cavalry. He was spying around to find out the force around hereà[Rappahannock May 15, 63]àwe see Rebel scouts across the river almost every dayàone company has to be up every night to prevent being surprised and when on picket we have orders to let no man approachà[Union Mills, Va., June 2, 63]àMosby burned a train loaded with forage there was a lieutenant and 30 men for guard from the 15th and they ran without firing a gun. They are now in Washington under arrestà[Brattleboro, Vt., July 11, 63]àcome very near being in the battle of Gettysburg. We was within 1 1/2 mile from there guarding the Corps wagon trainà[Near Petersburg Sept. 3, 64]àBrooks met with a sad accident he was cutting some hooksàmade a miss blow and cut off two fingers on his left handàOur company had a pretty hard shelling when they first joined the regiment but one man was wounded and he got a minnie ball in his ankleà[Near Petersburg Sept. 9, 64]àWe can hear picket and artillery firing any time day and nightàthere is one or two deserters come in every night and they tell the same story tired and sick of the war. One came in this morning and said he had been 24 days in the rifle pits without being relieved or having a chance to wash. He was just the color of the groundà[Near Petersburg Sept. 14, 64]àwe can hear firing any timeàand once in a while one of their shells will come singing around our camp but they don't come with much force on account of the long rangeà[Near Petersburg Oct. 3, 64]àI am alive and well and not a scratch on me...[Battle of Peeble's Farm] àon the morning of the 1st we were ordered to move and...marched about 7 miles and the 2nd and 5th Corps turned their flank and drove them out of their first line of works and then came the 9th Corps' turn we advanced 2 miles before we came to their 2nd line of works and we charged them but failed to carry them and fell back and laid down in the woods and the shell and balls came inàour pickets came running in and over the top of the knoll. A line of Rebels closed en masse. Our division received their first fire and the balls came like hail we fired at them three volleys and retreated they drove us about 1/4 of a mile and we rallied and drove them back after a sharp fight and held our ground our company went into the fight 45 guns and now number 24àLt. Toban is wounded and I expect prisoners. Our orderly is killedàI have got command of the company. Our Col. Is killed and there is now only one commissioned officers in the reg'tà[Near Petersburg Oct. 9, 64]àwe lost 23 men out of 54 in killed, wounded, and missing. We have got two commissioned officers in the regiment and 120 men. I am in command of the company and have the whole charge of it. It is new business for meàYou have probably read of the narrow escape of Gen. Meade from a shell. Our brigade was supporting that battery and I was within 20 rods of them at the timeà[Near the Pegram House Oct. 30, 64]àWe have had another big fight at the South Side railroad but the 17th was lucky enough to keep out of itàthe thing did not amount to anything as all the troops have come back to their old positionsà[Near the Pegram House Nov. 11, 64]àI am in plain sight of the Rebs and have just asked them what I should say to my Mother for him. He says tell her that we are going to settle up this damned war and then let me go home and see her againà[Fort Davis, Petersburg Dec. 2, 64]àThey have moved us out of our new winter quartersàwhere the fort was blown up and it is the meanest hole in the whole line for there is a constant picket firing at night and artillery through the day and while I write the guns go about once in five minutes they do not fire from this fort but one about 10 rods below here and once below here and once in a while a shell will come a little nearer than is pleasant last night a sergeant in the 31st Maine right beside of us while sitting in his tent was hit with a minie ball it entered at his left shoulder blade and passed through his heartà[Ft. Davis Dec. 5, 64]àThey have moved us down here directly in front of Petersburg the steeples are plainly visible. They keep up a sharp firing on picket all the time at night and every little while our batteries and theirs will have a scrape shelling one another. Last night they had one several shell burst very near the fort no one has yet been hurtà[Ft. Davis Dec. 11, 64]...our picket line in front is only about 10 rods from the Rebs and at night we keep up a constant fire at one another but it don't do any good for we have such good picket pits that they can't hit us and we have post holes to fire through. I was on picket one night and fired away 100 rounds of cartridges but we are allowed to fire only about twenty...you know I always like to be shooting a gun and as the powder don't cost me anything it helps to keep me awakeà[Ft. Davis Dec. 18, 64]àI don't think the ball is made yet that [could] hit me for I have had lots of them fired at me but one of them...put a hole through my cup that was hitched to my haversackà[Ft. Davis Jan. 5, 65]àshelling one anotheràamounts to nothing only to make us dodge behind the breastworks. Corp. R. C. Jimmieàwas wounded and taken prisoner on the 30th of September. He says that Buckman was sent to Georgia with about 40 men that was taken at the same timeàI have just been to see a man hung he belonged to the 179th N. Y. He deserted to the Rebs and our cavalry caught him. I hope they will hang everyone that desertsà[Ft. Davis Feb. 1, 65]à[Vice] President Stephens has come over with a flag of truce I saw him when he came and heard that he brought sealed proposals for peaceà[Petersburg Mar. 31, 65]àWe are having some tall fighting now down on the left near Hatcher's Run and now I can hear the cannonading and musketry it sounds like thunder they was fighting all day yesterday and last night the report was that we had captured the South Side railroad but I don't know how true it is they have got an awful force up there the 5th, 6th, 2nd, 24th and two divisions of Negro Corps...all of Sheridans cavalry is up...[City Point Apr. 3, 65]àWe have had one of the hardest fights of the war and I am wounded on the right leg but not very bad. The ball went into my leg near the thigh from behind and is there now. Our reg't. is awfully cut up I was wounded about 9 o'clock and when I was hit there was not 50 well men in the reg't. and they fought three hours after thatàCorp. Jemmie had both feet blown off by a shell but the doctor though he could save his lifeàWe charged on the Johnnie's forts twice and carried two of them...helping Lt. Henry of Co. K off...I was hit by a minnie ball from a sharp shooter. The 9th Corps carried 8 forts and the first line of works and the report is this morning that we have taken Petersburg and are driving them nowàA grape shot came so near me that it tore my pants clear across...my body and I lost everything I had in my pockets, knife, tobacco, walletà[Montpelier Hospital Apr. 16, 65]àI am here and all right as far as health is concerned but my leg is pretty sore and will be for some time as the bullet is in there yet and probably...always will be. It is doing well now the doctor says it will be healed in three weeksà"". Military and pension records included. Very minor soiling and light staining, else very good.
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