Yankee Correspondence: Civil War Letters between New England Soldiers and the Home Front.

1862, he was not a happy man. Though his unit had just helped capture the eastern North Carolina ports of New Bern and Beaufort, the twentyeight-year-old former shoemaker from Newburyport, who had originally enlisted in the army on April 15, 1861, wrote, "I have had just about as much to do with the army as I want" and hoped for a speedy end to the war. On December 26, 1862, after performing tedious occupation duty in eastern North Carolina for eight months and hearing about Union military defeats on far off fields, Barlow complained, "we are all getting sick of this war." Five months later, after the latest Union defeat at Chancellorsville, Barlow despaired that "this war has played out." In October 1863, while still in New Bern, the disheartened Barlow strongly suggested that he might leave the army, claiming, "I don't think much about enlisting again."1 However, on December 2, 1863, Barlow did reenlist. In

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