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4pp. ALS from Charles Gooch of the 27th Maine Infantry. Letter datelined ""Camp at Chantilly May 17 Sunday 1863"" reads in part: "".I was very glad to hear from my dear wife. The letters to me are like the oasis in the great desert to the weary traveler. I did not write.for the good reason that I was on picket Friday.You wanted to know how I sent the money.I sent.United States treasury notes what we call green backs and I suppose Mr. Morton exchanged it at the bank. I think likely it is some advantage to the bank to change for by the present law they are a legal tender and the banks by keeping them notes can issue their money on them and keep their money in circulation as well as if there was gold.We have considerable many thunder showers here. We are not far from the Blue Ridge. That is a range of mountains running Southwest and Northeast through this state and the showers rise up among them mountains and spread out over us.I am aware it will be seven months tomorrow morning since I left you my dear and our pleasant little home to try the fortunes of war and through the mercies of a kind providence I have been kept from harm.This week past I think has been the longest week that I have experienced since I left Camp Seward.the time seems to drag heavy and sluggish. I suppose it is because I feel so anxious for the time to come when I can come home and clasp you to my bosom."" A nine-month regiment, the 27th Maine was called upon to serve picket duty in and around Washington, D.C. Charles Gooch mustered into service on 30 September 1862 and mustered out on 17 July 1863. Ink letter measures 5"" x 8"". Fading to ink, otherwise near fine condition.
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