Military service in New Bern, Washington, and other eastern North Carolina sites, as described in a series of 15 autograph letters (plus two fragments), signed by Stone, a private in Co. B, 27th Massachusetts Volunteers, April 9, 1862 – September 1, 1863, from Cambridge, Mass.
(1 letter), Newberne (8), Washington (5), and Newport News, Va. (1), to his cousin Wesley Strong in Grout’s Corner, Massachusetts, and other relatives. 8vo. 73 pages, approximately 8000 words. Passages from the letters below give a flavor his life and military service in eastern North Carolina, primarily in the siege..... More