Loved your Civil War Letter. I have several letters left by my great grandfather that will be published in R. I. Roots sometime this coming year. He was in the R.I. 7th Infantry Co. I. Do you have others? Claire

Claire, I have several letters that Henry Machen Patrick wrote home to his wife Susan, plus, there is more to the memoirs of William von Eberstein. He first served as 5th (Orderly) Sergeant with the Washington Greys, Co. K, 10th North Carolina Heavy Artillery. http://thewashingtongrays.homestead.com/index.html He served at the Outer Banks of North Carolina at Fort Ocracoke, in South Carolina at Battery Wagner in the Battle of Charleston, at Petersburg, Drewry's Bluff, and even came home to recruit which seemed not to happen because, as he said, "They Yankees were after me" since the town of Washington, NC and surrounding area were by then in Union control. When he transferred to the NC 61st Infantry Regiment, his brother in law, Henry Harding (my 2nd Great Granduncle) was Major of the regiment. On a stroke of luck one night a couple of years back, I stumbled onto a website for an underwater archaeology company named SIDCO that was exploring Fort Ocracoke, and ended up providing the head of the company with information about the fort from the memoirs. He and I have kept in touch and they are supposedly going to put out something like a book in the near future regarding their exploration of the fort which is now underwater. For more about SIDCO, you can find information at http://www.computer-therapy.com/sidco/ My wife's Great Grandfather, Major General Bryan Grimes from Pitt County, NC was the last Major General appointed by Robert E. Lee. There are transcripts of letters home to his wife online at http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/grimes/grimes.html Edward Harding Washington, NC http://ehardingwbtsancestors.homestead.com/