TY  - GEN
AU  - Perrine,Cyrus Mills
TI  - Cyrus Mills Perrine correspondence,
KW  - Alden, Chester Y. C.
KW  - Alden, James C.
KW  - Alden, York
KW  - Lincoln, Abraham,
KW  - Perrine, George H.
KW  - Perrine, Rosetta L.
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Military life
KW  - Indiana Infantry Regiment, 123rd (1863-1865)
KW  - Appomattox Campaign, 1865
KW  - Presidents
KW  - Election
KW  - 1864
KW  - Decatur County (Ind.)
KW  - History
KW  - Indiana
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Mississippi
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - North Carolina
KW  - Vicksburg (Miss.)
KW  - Virginia
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - itoamc
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Chiefly letters written by Perrine during his service with the 123rd Indiana Infantry Regiment to his parents, George H. Perrine and Rosetta L. Perrine, in Decatur County, Indiana.  Includes letters to the couple from other Union soldiers including Rosetta Perrine's brothers, Chester Y.C. Alden, James C. Alden, and York Alden.  Topics include camp life, troop movements, and battle engagements including the Vicksburg Campaign and operations in North Carolina in 1865.  The letters refer to dissatisfaction among the soldiers on account of food shortages, sickness, low morale, and corruption among the officers and contain observations on the 1864 elections, Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration, his assassination, and the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, Virginia, in April 1865
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