TY  - GEN
TI  - Curry family papers,
KW  - Curry, Halsey.
KW  - Curry, Thornton,
KW  - Eastmen, John,
KW  - Curry family.
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, 7th (1861-1865)
KW  - Company I
KW  - Boscobel (Wis.)
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Prisoners and prisons
KW  - Virginia
KW  - Washington (D.C.)
KW  - Wisconsin
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Portion of letter (1862 September 23; Washington, D.C.) from an unidentified Civil War soldier to his mother mentioning his brothers Thornton and Halsey Curry who served in Company I of the Seventh Wisconsin Infantry Regiment.  The writer describes the death of Thornton Curry on the battlefield in Gainesville, Va., in August 1862, the writer's subsequent capture and release by the Confederate Army, and the death of John Eastman, another Civil War soldier from Boscobel, Wis., at a hospital in Washington, D.C
ER  -