2 letters tagged with “funny”

• March 25th, 1863

  by Cecil Burleigh, tagged with

  • #picket
  • #illness
  • #funny
  Things start to get lively in Virginia when pickets are attacked, and Capt. Dickerman is not feeling so well. Joe cracks a joke against Tucker, and Lieut. Dickerman is trying to get a discharge.

• January 4th, 1863

  by Cecil Burleigh, tagged with

  • #review
  • #new years
  • #funny
  • #emancipation proclamation
  In this brief letter, Cecil speaks of a division review with 20,000 men, a burlesque dress parade of a neighboring regiment, and the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation.