• Share
  • Download
  1. BROWSE
  2. Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Indiana, Pennsylvania in the Civil War
  3. Letter from William Gustin Lowry to Margaret Judson Lowry, October 10, 1862

Letter from William Gustin Lowry to Margaret Judson Lowry, October 10, 1862

MLA citation style
Lowry, W. G. “Letter From William Gustin Lowry To Margaret Judson Lowry, October 10, 1862”. no date. Indiana University Of Pennsylvania Special Collections And University Archives; Moorhead Collection, 1862Oct. .
APA citation style
Lowry, W. G. (1862). Letter from William Gustin Lowry to Margaret Judson Lowry, October 10, 1862. Indiana University Of Pennsylvania Special Collections And University Archives; Moorhead Collection. Retrieved from https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3Aaiupa-cw_63
Chicago citation style
Lowry, William Gustin. “Letter From William Gustin Lowry To Margaret Judson Lowry, October 10, 1862”. Indiana University Of Pennsylvania Special Collections And University Archives; Moorhead Collection, Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Indiana, Pennsylvania in the Civil War, October 10, 1862. https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3Aaiupa-cw_63.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.

[]Details

Title

Letter from William Gustin Lowry to Margaret Judson Lowry, October 10, 1862

Subject

Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862--Personal narratives. United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 62nd (1861-1865)--Biography. United States. History. Civil War, 1861-1865--Health aspects. Sweitzer, J. Bowman (Jacob Bowman), 1821-1888--Military service. Lowry, William Gustin, 1836-1863--Correspondence. Lowry, William Gustin, 1836-1863--Military service. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Sources.

Description

Letter sent by William Gustin Lowry (Gus) to his sister Margaret Judson Lowry (Mag) from a camp near Sharpsburg, Maryland on October 10, 1862. Gus seems to be homesick, as he spends much of the letter discussing people back home. He has also been physically sick, he writes that he was ill for around a week. Col. Sweitzer is also unwell. He notes that he misses his family and wishes to see them. Gus states that once the Army reaches its winter quarters, he will try to get a furlough and come home to visit. He closes the letter with some reports on acquaintances who had been killed in battle recently, and mentions that there are some others (such as Bob Moore) whom he has not had word of recently.

Creator

Lowry, William Gustin

Date

October 10, 1862

Time Period Covered

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

Digital Format

application/pdf

Identifier

MG 130 Box 2 1862 October 10

Source

Indiana University of Pennsylvania Special Collections and University Archives; Moorhead Collection

Language

English

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/

Contact

For additional information contact: The Historical and Genealogical Society of Indiana County, PA, 621 Wayne Avenue, Indiana, Pa 15701, 724-463-9606. Email ichistoricalsociety@gmail.com.

Contributing Institution

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Sponsorship

This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education.