2 10 11 https://omeka.conncoll.edu/files/original/36902405b8add31c16fb2f454c7e35a5.pdf f6c3bf520a8d914942bdfcc0c68272a7 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Thomas Pimer Papers Description An account of the resource Correspondence of Thomas Pimer to his father while he was serving in the 21st Connecticut Infantry in the Civil War. Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data ALS Text Any textual data included in the document Pleasant Valley MD Oct 16 [1862] Dear Father Not receiving any answer to my last letter I thought but that I would wright again and let you know that I am well and have been well since I have been out here, with the accep- tion of a looseness in the bowels which has plagued me a good deal. it is on account of the muddy water that we have to drink most all of the Reg iment are the same way. since I wrote last we have been on the march most of the time going from one place to another without stopping but one night at a time in any place since we left Va [page 2] we have marched in all about one hundred miles going from ten to fifteen miles in a day some days we would not go over six. I thought at first it would go hard with me but after I had gone a few miles I did not mind it at all Just as lieves go as not. I find that stout rugged men are the first to give out we have two great stout fellows in the company who have always worked in the field and were used to hard labor, and looked as thought they could stand most anything. they gave out among the first. they are now on the sick list and have been for two or three weeks. we have not lost but one yet. poor Ed Addams he [page 3] was taken sick in Va and I think if we had only had a deasant surgeon he might have been with us now. when we had orders to leave Va and go join MacClellan he was left behind to come on in the ambulance wagon we did not hear from him for five days and then herd that he was worse and had been sent to the Hospital. the next we hear of was that he was dead he was a good boy and was liked much in the company. we have three more in the Hospital now. we are now encampt in a pleasant valley between two mountains it is quite a nice place. if we only had something to protect us [page 4 -- blank] [page 5] from the cold and rain we have no tents. left them all in Va the boys take their rubber blankets and make a little tent of them but they dont keep out the rain or cold. another thing is we cannot get anything to eat we have lived on hard tack and coffee for more than a week. some of the bread you put on the stove and there will be worms half an inch long crawl out. that is what makes the soldier fat. we once had some pork some and after it was cooked it stank so that we could not go near it. the Colonel ordered it to be buryed immediately [page 6] our Quarter Master has now bought some cattle and we will soon have a little beef. we were within a few miles of the great battle at Antetam could hear the guns quite plain. this morning we heard heavy fireing in the direction of Harpers Ferry it lasted about three hours. have not yet heard where or what it was we shall know to night most likely. I saw General George McClellan. he is a fine looking man and is a smart man to. there is not a soldier in the whole army but what speaks in the highest favor of him we are now under him and Burnsides. and [page 7] are now preparing to go into action before long we are drilled eight hours every day and have now got so that we drill tip top they are enlisting men now for the Regular Army they give men one Hundred Dollars bounty and forty days furlough to enlist there has been som in our regiment that have gone. I had rather stay where I am and come home when the war is over. give my love to Mother and write to me I dont care if it is no more than two or three lines I am not so far gone but a little good advice from my Father would do me some good. Direct the same as the piece of paper is From your most affectionate son Tom [page 8 -- blank] Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Thomas Pimer, 21st C.V.I, October 16, 1862 Subject The topic of the resource United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Soldiers--Conduct of life Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862 McClellan, George B. -- (George Brinton), -- 1826-1885 Description An account of the resource Thomas Pimer writes to his father about marching, camp life, his thoughts on George MacClellan, and being near the Battle of Antietam.