Civil War letters written by Islip soldier delivered to Long Island historical society
Over 100 letters providing a firsthand account of life during the Civil War were recently delivered to a historical society on Long Island.The corr...
Over 100 letters providing a firsthand account of life during the Civil War were recently delivered to a historical society on Long Island.The correspondence was written by 41-year-old Frederick Wright Sr., a private in the Union Army, to his family home on Monell Avenue in Islip.One of the letters explains the harsh reality of the war, reading in part: "Not one of us got hurt but it was sad to see the infantry killed and wounded by the hundreds.""It really captures what the war effort was like, what the experience was with a private in the New York calvary and the various battles and what camp life was like," says Robert Finnegan, of the Islip Historical Society.