Contributed by Maine Historical Society
Description
Pvt. John Sheahan, Co. K, 1st Maine Cavalry, who was on picket duty in Warrenton Junction, Virginia, wrote to his father in Dennysville that as the sun was setting on Sunday, he thought fondly of home, and the possibility that he would be killed and never see his hometown and his "true" friends again.
He wrote that he thought God had "greater work" for him than to "help put down this wicked rebellion."
Sheahan enlisted in August 1862; the letter was written in June 1863.
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About This Item
- Title: Pvt. John Sheahan on home, death, Virginia, 1863
- Creator: John Parris Sheahan
- Creation Date: 1863-06-08
- Subject Date: 1863
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Locations:
- Dennysville, Washington County, ME
- VA
- Media: Ink on paper
- Dimensions: 20.2 cm x 12.6 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 184, Box 1/4
- Collection: John Parris Sheahan papers
- Object Type: Text
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Letters
- Military life
- Sheahan, John Parris--Correspondence
- Soldiers--Maine
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives
- United States. Army. Maine Cavalry Regiment, 1st (1861-1865). Company K
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