3 Letters: 76th Keystone Zouave Details Regiment's Travel In Fall Of 1863 For Sale

3 Letters: 76th Keystone Zouave Details Regiment's Travel In Fall Of 1863
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FREDERICK W. FOGLE enlisted on August 26, 1863 as a Private. He was a member of the 76th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, also known as the Keystone Zouaves, a Union Army infantry regiment that served in the Civil War from October 18, 1861, to July 18, 1865.

The 76th saw action in many important battles, including Secessionville, Pocotaligo, Fort Wagner, Charleston Harbor, Cold Harbor, Deep Bottom, Fort Fisher (first and second), Carolinas Campaign and Wilmington.

Offering three ALSs from Fogle to his wife as follows dealing mostly with his regiments travels during the fall of 1863.

--2 pp, 5 x 8, September 30, 1863: “...I am at Camp Copeland, twelve miles up the Monongahela River...I don’t know when we will leave this place. We may leave here in two days and we may stay here three weeks. We don’t know...When we leave, I expect to go to the Army of the Potomac. There was one hundred started from here last night. They was sent to the Army of the Potomac...I will send those books home to you. They was give to me and a testament and a hymn book...”

--4 pp, 5 x 8, October 19,1863: “...We are going to leave here tomorrow and we don’t know where we will go. We are going to Philadelphia first place and then we expect to go on board a vessel and go to South Carolina, that is Charleston...We have got news that we are going tomorrow morning at three o’clock...”

--2 pp, 5 x 8, October 21, 1863: “...I am now in Philadelphia. We came here last night and we are going to leave here tomorrow and we are going to South Carolina. We are going all the way from here by sea. They say it is about nine hundred miles from here and I am now about five hundred miles from home...It will take us about seven days to cross the sea and when I can get to where we will stop them...”

Letters have expected wear. Folds, toning, some foxing with one small fold tear. Fogle’s writing is challenging. Spelling corrected, punctuated added for clarity.

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