C.A. Garcelon on promotion issues, Virginia, 1863
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Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library
By October 27, 1863, Garcelon had been in the army more than a year, had experienced battle, and was strategizing for the best way to get promoted, without starting another three-year enlistment.
Garcelon wrote to Capt. William Garcelon, his uncle who had been injured at Gettysburg and was recuperating, probably at a hospital in Annapolis, sharing his thoughts about promotion and news about relatives and friends.
Garcelon was serving with the Ambulance Corps, where his colonel recommended he stay rather than returning to the 16th Regiment, "for he thought I should not be able to stand the marching and fatigues."
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