Sergeant Smith of the 4th Regiment, took back with him on Monday to his company a vast amount of comforts and luxuries for “the boys.” He had Hams, Cheeses, Tubs of fresh butter, Crackers, Shirts, Stockings, pipe and cigars, amounting in all to three large dry goods boxes and one barrel full! Something over seventy pairs of good, thick, warm wollen stockings were sent. Notable mothers, sisters and grandmothers, habituated to such labors, have plied their needles during the past fortnight more industriously than ever, and dainty fingers which never before manipulated anything harsher than Berlin wool, have bravely toiled over the heavy blue yarn, anxious to contribute something to the comfort of their brothers in the distant camp.
Ah! how hearty must be the greeting which all such remembrances of the loved at home receive from our loved in the army. For this week at least our brave boys will feast and sing, and their camp and squad by night and by day will resound with the praises of old mother Litchfield!
The Ladies also propose to continue their charitable labors, and are requested to send in socks to Mrs. L. W. Wessells, to be sent after a time to the Litchfield men belonging to the 8th Regiment.
Litchfield Enquirer, Litchfield, CT