Abstract Five letters from William P. Hall, a Union soldier during the American Civil War, written from various camps in Maryland, North Carolina, and Virginia, to his uncle in Worcester, Massachusetts. Hall's letters discuss his work as a cook; the discharge of several soldiers due to their size; the gradual reduction of the regiment; the building of a new hospital with bowling alley; the inspection of his regiment by the secretaries of war and navy, General Ambrose E. Burnside, and Governor John...