Civil War Letters of Elisha Randolph Robinson

Download or read book Civil War Letters of Elisha Randolph Robinson written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Correspondence between soldier and sergeant E. R. Robinson of LaGrange, Wyoming County, N.Y. and various members of his family, written mainly during his nearly three years serving with the Union army (August 1862 to July 1865) in the U.S. Civil War. The bulk of his letters were sent from locations in Virginia, including Suffolk, Manassas Junction, Culpeper and Harpers Ferry. Robinson was present at Appomattox when Lee surrendered, and wrote of what he witnessed among the troops that day in the field. Most of the letters written to him were from family members in LaGrange and other locations in New York state, and include several written prior to and after Robinson's Civil War service.