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CIVIL WAR PATRIOTICS & THE BEVERLY, NJ HOSPITAL ~ Hughes, Walton, & Micchelli Illustrations courtesy William E. Hughes Fig. 13: Two more letters from Henay to his wife, written during his stay at the Beverly General Hospital. One is dated September 3, and the other September 13, 1864. Henay was mustered out in late June 1865 in Philadelphia, and as his first letter here is written in August of 1864, he must have been in the Beverly Hospital for almost its entire existence. NJPH 42 Vol. 40/No. 1 Feb 2012 Whole No. 185
Hughes, Walton, & Micchelli ~ CIVIL WAR PATRIOTICS & THE BEVERLY, NJ HOSPITAL Saturday Sept 3rd 1864 U.S. Hospital Beverly N Jersey My Dear Wife I am improving in health every day, my appetite is good and they tell me I am getting fat. I don't doubt it for my strength is greatly improved compared with what it was 2 weeks ago. Since writing my last letter I have been trying to get a furlough. This morning I did succeed. So far as that I got my ward doctor to sign an application. I wrote off to present to the surgeon in charge of the Hospital. When I carried it to him he read it and told me he would see about my furlough- I will not intirely [sic] despair of getting one as he would reject my application at the time if he didn't mean to do something for me but when that time will be it would be very hard for me to say. It may be I shall hear from him in a week and it might be a month. They are obliged to send all furloughs from this place to Genl Couchs Head Quarters at Harrisburg, Pa. for approval. I may be lucky enough to get one and if I do I shall be agreeably surprised. An order has been issued from the War Department to furlough all the Maine soldiers in the Hospital who are able to go home to vote. This is probably by request of the Governor of the state. There is no danger of our Governor making such a request for I don't think it would benefit his party much, as most all soldiers in the Army would vote against him. So they should and I hope they will + every man at home should do the same give us a new Governor and McClellan for our next President. I think things will be more agreeable for everybody. I shall look for a letter from you on Monday or Tuesday next and hope to hear that you'll be in your usual good health. Give my love to all Millie, Fannie, Katie, Baby Kate and yourself Yours forever Wm S Haney Cover from the Richard Micchelli Collection Fig. 14: A patriotic cover used from Beverly on September 3 (but not from Haney) shows that other soldiers there were not all “red-hot Lincolnites,” but favored McClelland. Sarah Emerson, in her October 16 th letter above, also writes about furloughing patients to go home and vote in the upcoming Presidential election. She notes that no favoritism was shown and all were released at the same time – although clearly there was an attempt by some to affect the election. Lincoln’s second run for election resulted in a landslide for the incumbent President, in large part because of timely major victories in the field. Vol. 40/No. 1 43 NJPH Whole No. 185 Feb 2012
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