Civil War Letters: New York

Writing Home on Very Unusual Stationery… A Blank Confederate Stock Certificate: Chester Hotel & Mining Co. – Horace Sisson Co. K, 1^st New York Mounted Rifles Writing from City Point, Virginia May 11^th, 1864 – “NEVER SINCE I HAVE BEEN IN THE ARMY HAVE I HAD SHELLS BURST AND BULLETS BUZZ SO CLOSE TO ME”


Lt. Col. John Fred Pierson, 1st New York, Organizes “The Prisoners Club” in Libby Prison + His CDV!

4^th New York Infantry Soldier William Stow Sends Home the Most “Colorful” Souvenirs We Have Seen

Wonderful Letter from the Man who was Killed on the Very Day of Surrender at Appomattox Court House, April 9^th, 1864 – Hiram Clark, Co. G, 185^th New York Infantry