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Box 1

 Container

Contains 80 Results:

Marcellus Ovando Messer to family, 1863 September 16

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 47
Identifier: MSN/CW 5108-47
Scope and Contents

Messer writes of a "skirmish" days earlier, and describes in detail the death of two men who had been fighting alongside of him.

Dates: 1863 September 16

Marcellus Ovando Messer to George W. Messer, 1863 October 8

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 49
Identifier: MSN/CW 5108-49
Scope and Contents

Messer writes of the ongoing campaign at Chattanooga, Tennessee and of his impressions of Col. Charles F. Manderson.

Dates: 1863 October 8

Marcellus Ovando Messer to family, 1863 October 15

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 51
Identifier: MSN/CW 5108-51
Scope and Contents

Messer describes conditions in camp and his regiment's encounters with Confederate deserters.

Dates: 1863 October 15

Marcellus Ovando Messer to family, 1863 November 9

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 53
Identifier: MSN/CW 5108-53
Scope and Contents

Messer describes Confederate shelling from Lookout Mountain in Tennessee.

Dates: 1863 November 9

Marcellus Ovando Messer to George W. Messer, 1864 March 15

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 59
Identifier: MSN/CW 5108-59
Scope and Contents

Messer's describes his return to duty after a leave in Ohio, and recounts missing his regiment's train as it left the station in Cincinnati bound for Louisville.

Dates: 1864 March 15