Dated “General Hospital / Baltimore Md / Oct. 16^th 1861.” Addressed to “Dear Mother.” 2 pp. in clear pencil on unlined paper with colored patriotic vignette in upper left corner, 5” x 8. Exhibits fold-marks, else VG.

Isaac was a resident of Simsburg, CT, who enlisted and mustered as a private in Co. “B”, 5th Connecticut Infantry, 7/22/1861. He was listed as wounded, 10/18/1861 (by friendly fire, place not stated), and as discharged for disability, 9/2/ 1862.

Prindle’s 5^th CT regiment, which included his brother Henry, was mustered in July 1861. In 1862 it served in the Dept. of the Shenandoah and with Gen. Popes Army of VA., participating the Valley Campaign against Stonewall Jackson’s forces, engaged at the Battles of Cedar Mountain and Second Bull Run. After which it was attached to the 12th Army Corps with which it was engaged in the 1863 Battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg [in action on Culp’s Hill, July 2-3, 1863]. After which it transferred to the Western theater, joining Sherman’s Army for the Atlanta Campaign and its March to the Sea and through the Carolinas, and being present at the Battle of Bentonville and at Gen. Johnston’s confederate surrender. During service the unit lost 110 men killed and mortally wounded and 83 men by disease for a total of 193.

In this letter Private Prindle writes to allay his parents’ anxiety about his wounding, while mentioning it as the result of friendly fire. Text as follows:

“…The doctors says I am getting along first-rate and if nothing happens I shall be hobbling about in the course of a month or six weeks. The wound is just commencing to heal. The swelling is most all down. I tell you it mad an ugly looking hold of about 3 quarters of an inch diameter and 4 or 5 inches deep. Henry has gone back to the Regt. He went about a half an hour ago with a crowd of others. The Regt. is at Williamsport up the river about H. Ferry. Henry is in first-rate health and is spoiling for a fight. Do not be at all alarmed on my account for I cam doing well but it is tough to be shot by our own men. When I left Hartford I expected to be shot before this time but not by friends…”

Interesting hospital letter from a 5^th CT private wounded by friendly fire. In protective sleeve. [JP] [ph:L]

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