http://66.213.124.233/files/original/6ce17f5568296b98ea68977690120f18.jpg e24453bcde8cd2c04ec3507ecdfdbd88 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/. Description An account of the resource [corresponds to Civil War Letters of Hiram C. Fuller] Cheat Mountain Summit Oct 26th Dear Brother As Aaron Clauson is going home I thought it would be a good chance to write you a few lines & let you know how we are getting along, We are building winter quarters now & the boys work hard & live poor & grumble all the time. I had charge of 50 men but I got sick of so much complaining & got a birth in the hospital & there I set up 3 nights in secession & next day was sick with headache, but it did not last but one day I guess it done me good for awhile ago I saw all the boys most home sick & I thought it must a terrible feeling by the way they acted So I thought I would go out in the woods & be home sick awhile & see how it felt but it was a mistake for me to go into the woods for I am always at home in the woods but I sit down on a log & put my face in my hands to bring it on & began to think of home when I heard a nois & looked up & there was a pheasant makeing anois some like a quail when it sees something it is fraid of I up and after it with a club & forgot all about being homesick but when I got the headache I found out how one felt & I would pity a dog that was homesick. Why it looked to me as though the war would last forever & as though 50 rebbles would whip all of us & I thought I had the typhoid feavor & would be sick the rest of the winter but next morning I felt so much better that it looked as though it would take 10,000 to whip us Title A name given to the resource Hiram C. Fuller's Civil War Letters (p. 1) http://66.213.124.233/files/original/a72cf0baa09b1ae2c42809cb42827ea8.jpg 99a02ff899151a2ae865577f29e513dd 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/. Description An account of the resource [corresponds to Civil War Letters of Hiram C. Fuller] [left column] Now I have got as stout as ever & feel as though I could whip a regiment of them. The other night we were on picket & some scouts had gone out that day to see what the enimy were at & got parted & part of them come in & reported the rest taken by the rebbles & that the rebbles were comeing to attack our camp that night so the officer of the day come round to instruct the pickets just at dark & he was badly scart. I was stationed 2 miles from camp down the river from the bridge with 4 men. At the bridge they had 20 men & they built up with logs at each end of the bridge & had the plank loose so as to stop them from crossing there and if they turned down the river they could not cross till they got down to where I was for it was deep & high banks so the officer of the day see that & told me we mus hold that place at all hazzards I told him verry coolly we could do it no danger of us we could hold it till reinforced from camp & he seamed to be satisfied & went up to camp & enquired who I was. It made a good deal of laugh to to think he would ask 5 men to hold a position against 500 & to get assured that it should be done without fail made him sleep sound I expect. but I knew that the rebbles dare not come to us nor fight only behind their brestworks, & them men that were reported lost come in the nex morning. They had got lost hunting chestnuts. There was a negro come from their camp to our pickets & they brought him in & he told where the rebbles had cattle & he led a company of scouts the other night & they went beyond their fort 4 miles & got 40 head of cattle & six head of horses & found a post office in a little town & they brought all the letters. The negger is quite a hero in our camp he stepes around as big as cuffy. Some day he will go back maybe [right column] We have 6 sick men in our part of the hospital they have the winter or they call here the mountain feavor some of them are pretty sick they are generly deranged nights & some all the time. The boys are all mad about staying here this I guess I am the only one that liked it & I was glad for there is some excitement here all the time we are near enough the rebbles to see one once in a while & there is lots of game in the woods of all kinds & if I get a rifle some of them will catch it. If I dont kill a bear this winter I dont know as I ever will if I dont I can kill some pheasants & squirrels & they will go well here. I shall have some leasure if I stay in the hospital for Dock says we shall have plenty of help but when the old Dock get back I may leave for I did not like him much but may like him better when he comes back & he may never come back for they have not heard from him since he left only by the papers noticeing his arrival in Cin. I want you to oversee things a little this winter & not let the stock get poor & encourage the boys all you can & tell them how to manage & write to me how things are going there & all the news. What was done with that case of George & Johns in court & how the sheep & horses look & all the news. From your brother H.C. Fuller To R.M. Fuller Title A name given to the resource Hiram C. Fuller's Civil War Letters (p. 2) http://66.213.124.233/files/original/eb4c42127a405986f73d8f13900cf285.jpg 2d15dc3a18a1c5f34ca6c44e40feac42 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/. Description An account of the resource [corresponds to Civil War Letters of Hiram C. Fuller] [right column] Cheat Mountain Summit Nov 14 Dear Brother I sent you a letter some time ago & have not got an answer yet but thought I would not wait as I had special word for you I got a letter from Lydia last Sunday asking me to authorize you to get Mother groceries & other necessaries she may need. I want you to get her all she askes for if she is not unreasonble & get them on time & I will send you the money as soon as pay day comes which will be in 3 weeks I think. We got the things you good people sent us & it would have done you good to see the poor ragged soldiers eyes sparkle. Some of them could not contain themselves Shouled & cried for joy. We have some happy days here on this mountain. We got the things on saturday & I waited till monday before I tried my gun I found it all right So Tuesday Maj Hewit Capt Dyer [left column] They got two good horses & sharps carbine & pistols with them. We did not loose any men this time but once before they went down there under an Ia Major by the name of Bell & he got drunk & led the men into the pickets & 4 got killed & 5 wounded Since that they have been more careful I am tierd of writing & must close by wishing you good by from your brother HC Fuller To R.M. Fuller Title A name given to the resource Hiram C. Fuller's Civil War Letters (p. 3) http://66.213.124.233/files/original/cceba8801f5f3b1eb9abe9f1159194de.jpg 085f1fb92bed90ebc870c6d5e6e471f6 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/. Description An account of the resource [corresponds to Civil War Letters of Hiram C. Fuller] [left column] & 3 or 4 more officers started out to shoot at a mark. They had their navy revolvers & Enfield rifles & muskets Just as we got started the butcher an English man wanted I should shoot 3 beevers for him so he turned them out of the pen for it was muddy & 8 or 9 got out but there was a 100 men to head them most of them with guns & wanting to shoot, I asked him wich ones he wanted to kill & he said any of them so I took one with a white face. Down he tumbled & I took another white face Down he com the rest all righting but before they could pull the beef would move & Down come another white face the globes showed so nice at their faces. The old butcher laughed & says that is the way to nock them boys why cant you do it that way one fellow said he could kill them as well as I if he could only hit them right. I run & overtook the rest & we had a good time shooting but they could not shoot their Enfields nor Springfields nor pistols near enough to make it interesting [right column] It makes me a little proud to hear so many wish they had one & I dont know how to express my feeling of grattitude towards my friends who gave it but will try to make it the means of shortning the war (with a few at any rate) & if I could make the war one day shorter it will pay big I have a coppy of the subscription paper with each mans name & amount sent me by G.T. Sherman & I have read the names over & over. I got by the last mail a letter from Reub one from Lydia one from G.T. Sherman one from Charly & one from D Bricker & the Capt got one from G Courter that was half written to me. They were all first rate letters & all interesting I got one from Read Letts a few days before & one from J. W. Foote which I must answer first & I dont know as I can answer each letter sperately but will write a general letter to all of you We send scouts everyday down to Granbrier & yesterday some of the Ind 9th took a cavilry man & a Lieutenant prisnors Title A name given to the resource Hiram C. Fuller's Civil War Letters (p. 4) http://66.213.124.233/files/original/8f0ef87b55cb7730b883c6f998ba7172.jpg eae81a3d664d420b52b589a9e0d4755c 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/. Description An account of the resource [corresponds to Civil War Letters of Hiram C. Fuller] Beverly, March 2nd/62 Dear Brother I received your letter of Feb 21st yesterday and was glad to hear from home that they were all well but sorry to hear that things dont go smothe all the time. I want you to see that the boys feed regular and without wasting feed which you can do without spending much time by noticing how things look as you pass along by them weather they eat it all up clean or if they are hungry. About buying you out I cant make you any better offer than I did before except you want that prairie land to live on but if you want it to trade on it is worth more to me than you could trade or sell if for. If you want to go there to live I will give you 15 80 acres of that prairie and my two horse wagon and $250, or if you dont want the wagon I will give $300, That is letting you have the land a $2.50 per acre which is less than I would take under any other circumstances. Title A name given to the resource Hiram C. Fuller's Civil War Letters (p. 5) http://66.213.124.233/files/original/2c0b7e559906f41944ffdac1a91b9214.jpg 82f7f848a14e1183852089beb817ad07 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/. Description An account of the resource [corresponds to Civil War Letters of Hiram C. Fuller] We expect to leave here in about 3 weeks for Richmond. We will go first to Alleghany whare we expect to have our first fight the next at Stanton and and maybe one or two little fights between that and Richmond. Then I dont know whether we will go to Manassus or to Charlestown SC and so on round to take New Orleans and up the river home. Our Col has got back from Ohio and we are to have the Sibly tents with stoves in them and we can pitch them evry night on the march and be comfortable in bad weather. It is rported the regt is to have better guns but that dont interest me as I have a better one than the goverment ever made. I was offered $30. for it the other day by a native and I guess a secesh for he said he had come 10 miles on purpose to buy it but I told him he could not have it for $1000, for if he had bought it then shot me with it that would have been bad for the gun. It is mail time and I must close my love to all. From your brother H.C. Fuller To R.M. Fuller Title A name given to the resource Hiram C. Fuller's Civil War Letters (p. 6) 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 Military Description An account of the resource This collection contains personal letters and video relating to topics in US Military history and wars in which the US Army was engaged. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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 Hiram C. Fuller's Civil War Letters Description An account of the resource This is a small collection of three letters written by Hiram C. Fuller of Berkshire Township to his brother Ralph M. Fuller during the American Civil War. The letters are held in a private collection. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1861-1865 Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Letters Language A language of the resource English Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ Subject The topic of the resource American Civil War--1861-1865--Ohio Berkshire Township--Delaware County--Ohio Correspondence--Personal--Letters Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Fuller, Hiram C.