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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC03696.13 |
| From Archive Folder | Collection of Asa Smith, K company, 16th regiment, Massachusetts, infantry |
| Title | Asa Smith to his mother reagrding union soldiers tricking condfederate soliders out of money |
| Date | 8 June 1862 |
| Author | Smith, Asa (fl. 1861-1862) |
| Recipient | Smith, Ann |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | to mother [Ann Smith] The regiment has received orders, and will probably soon be moving to Richmond. He was unable to break the bill from home. The Union boys "played some rough games on the ignorant Secesh, in the matter of money," using wrappers and papers marked with numbers as money. He hasn't heard from Wallace. He seems ready for battle, remarking that he doesn't want to fight, but if he must, the regiment will "give them a taste of our steel which don't seem to suit them." He seems very restless in Suffolk: "One thing is certain, I don't care how quick I get out of Suffolk to some place where the white folks know, as much as the niggers." Numbered in pencil "82." |
| Subjects | Civil War Military History Union Forces Union Soldier's Letter Soldier's Letter Infantry Soldier's Pay Confederate States of America Forgery and Fraud Coins and Currency Humor and Satire Battle African American History Education |
| People | Smith, Asa (fl. 1861-1862) |
| Place written | Suffolk, Virginia |
| Theme | The American Civil War; African Americans; Education |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
| Civil War: Unit | Massachusetts 16th Regiment infantry, K company |