Contributed by Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library
Description
Charles Garcelon of Co. I of the 16th Maine Infantry, wrote to his Maggie Haskell to answer a letter she had written to him in September.
He mentions his mother's death and the children she left behind. He asked Maggie to ascertain how his younger siblings were doing and whether they needed anything.
He also wrote about a friend at home in Lewiston who had died and how those "in seeming security are taken quietly away" while one might expect death instead for those who "risk their lives on the battlefield." He wrote, "The ways of God are mysterious."
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About This Item
- Title: Charles Garcelon to Maggie Haskell, Virginia, 1862
- Creator: Charles Augustus Garcelon
- Creation Date: 1862-12-01
- Subject Date: 1862
- Media: Ink on paper
- Local Code: MC106 D
- Object Type: Text
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Garcelon, Charles A.--Correspondence
- Letters
- Maine--Civil War, 1861-1865
- Soldiers--Maine
- United States--Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 16th (1862-1865). Company F
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