Title: John Posey to Mathias Embry

Identifier: 1421-s1-b1-fa-i2   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/65907)

Description: Correspondence from John Posey to his cousin Mathias Embry including a description of the blockade around Charleston, South Carolina and his regiment's work "fortifying and mounting gun mortars" in and around Morris Island, S.C. Also detailed is a sickness Posey experienced which held him out of drill for six weeks, mention of the whereabouts of possible relative Private Charles Newton, a Black soldier in the 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment, Company C, Posey's frustration at the lack of news from home, and a note about the lack of anything suitable to drink following the day's work. Posey (1842?-1864) was a 22-year-old Black farmer from Vincennes, Indiana who enlisted as a Private the newly formed, all-black 55th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment, Company D and died in the Battle of Honey Hill November 30, 1864. Partial letter with envelope and transcript.