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Donated by John Starr Greenman
Courtland Way Starr letters, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libaries.
Collection contains correspondence and a single photograph of Courtland Way Starr. Correspondence contains accounts from soldier Courtland Way Starr to mother in Long Island N.Y. Corrrespondence includes accounts from Harrisburg PA on June 26, 1863, recounting his experiences in the army and with the 23rd Regiment of Brooklyn. Letter to mother on July 5, 1863, from Laurel Ford in Pennsylvania describes the exhaustive, cold conditions and the harsh realities of army life. Letter to Mother about twenty miles from Harrisburg Pennsylvania on July 2, 1863, discusses his regiments movement, a skirmish, and his concerns regarding the enemy also noted is that the Battle of Gettysburg occurred July 1-3, 1863.
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Contains three letters from Cortland Starr to his mother in Long Island, New York.
Photograph script reads "Cortland W. Starr July 1863 after his experince in the war around Gettysburg and Carlisle- he slept on fense rails laid in the mud, with a rubber blanket over there and came home weak and ill" Photograph is a carte de visite.