Joseph H. Trego

This letter, dated August 6 and 7, 1862, is from Joseph H. Trego to his wife Alice. Trego, a lieutenant in the 5th Kansas Cavalry Regiment, writes from Camp Beech Grove. He reports that the weather is so hot that a number of his fellow soldiers have become ill. He includes $690 with his letter and instructs his wife to “take good care of it . . . you may need it before you will find anyone to take my place if I should be so unfortunate as to get killed.”

August 6, 1862-August 7, 1862

Women
Surviving a Guerrilla War
Kansas military units
Battle for Missouri, 1861-1865 -- Military History of Missouri and Kansas

Joseph H. Trego
Samuel R Curtis

Leavenworth, Kansas
Leavenworth County, Kansas

Kansas Historical Society

Joseph H. Trego Coll. #523, Correspondence 1862

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