"They showered Godspeeds and blessings on their sons, and braced their hearts to the parting by pledges to keep all right and bright at the firesides of the county."
Colonel William H. Noble

Contents

Introduction

The Early Years

Army of the Potomac

South Carolina

Florida

 

Return Home

 

News From The Front

Letters from the Seventeenth Connecticut

 

Early Months

 

(submitted by Jeff Grzelak [Sept. 12, 1862])

(collection of Dale Call [Oct. 7, Oct. 28, Nov. 2, 1862])

(submitted by Jael Raymond)