Alexandria was the location of many of Peter's regiment's encampments, which put them close enough to Washington DC that they could travel there by train.
Peter visited the General Hospital in Washington several times where his brother-in-law had been sent for an unidentified syndrome that resulted in his eventual discharge.
Some of the soldiers went to Alexandria and Washington to visit 'mean women' and 'got something to remember them by for some time to come.'
After Peter's capture at Chancellorsville and confinement in Libby Prison, he spent the summer of 1863 at a Parole Camp near Alexandria.
In September he went to Washington to ask his legislator to recommend a furlough from Parole Camp, and saw the Capitol, War Department, Navy Yard, and Smithsonian.
In October, he was sent back to his regiment without ever receiving a furlough. Rumors that they would return to Washington did not come true.
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| 1862-10-22.......Camp Seward, may have camp itch, Washington Hospital, Antietem glass, small pox vaccine, paired with Fragment 4 10-22-1862s.htm |     | a: |
| 1862-11-07.......Camp Seward, embossed shield on letterhead,cold, snow, wet, bread, beans, and water,smoky tents 11-07-1862s.htm |   | a: |
| 1862-11-13.......5 day 60 mi march, unburied dead and horses, Bull Run, Gainsville, McClellan, 6 pgs 11-13-1862s.htm |       | a: |
| 1862-11-27.......Thanksgiving day, crackers and salt pork, near Washington, sick, marched 100 mi, Gen Lee 11-27-1862s.htm |   | a: |
| 1862-12-19.......Camp on Potomac Creek, sketch of Fredericksburgh made during bombardment, Tom to General Hospital 12-19-1862s.htm |    | a: |
| 1862-12-23.......Camp on Potomac Creek, reflects on peaceful life, buried 2 more, court martial 30 pound log, peace talk 12-23-1862s.htm |   | a: |
| 1863-01-17.......Camp on Potomac Creek, VA. Black tongue, Zouaves,hard tack box coffins. Dated Jan. 17 1862 (wrong year) 01-17-1863s.html |    | a: |
| 1863-01-25.......building roads in mud, men would not cross, Lee said would help, men deserting, political war 01-25-1863s.htm |     | a: |
| 1863-02-19.......Tom back, William Jones, Demming, Tom Gray, Sergeant school, her walking to school barefoot 02-19-1863s.htm |   | a: |
| 1863-02-22.......sketch winter scene on home page Armyofthepatomic.gif, snow, tents, wood, sickness and death, froze finger, government shoes, Deming, shoemaker Dennison, Washington Birthday 02-22-1863s.htm |   | a: |
| 1863-03-13.......armed all night, extra cartridges, Rebels, 4th Oneida, Fordis Phelps, would desert if she needs money, conscription law, March 3 1862 (wrong year) 03-13-1863s.htm |   | a: |
| 1863-03-21.......firing around, smallpox vaccine,wants her to live with his parents, not her sister Julia, Tom may be discharged,George avoided draft? 03-21-1863s.htm |   | a: |
| 1863-04-19.......order to move, 8 days rations, sick to Washington, curious move, jokes she says she will be like poor girl, ammunition explosion, Hooker broke leg 04-19-1863s.htm |   | a: |
| 1863-05-22.......traveled all over and settled at Convalescent Camp near Alexandria, suffered past weeks, hopes to come home in August, needs money 05-22-1863s.htm |   | a: |
| 1863-05-31.......she is alone in shanty, Ft. Corcoran, Fletch, Givens, Billy and Charley Kirkland, Camp Seward easy, 146 not 4th of July soldiers, papers not come 05-31-1863s.htm |   | a: |
| 1863-06-18.......rumors of another Bull Run, description Menzo Gibbs death on battlefield, sick soldiers, her idea to telegraph, beef bone ring, paired with Fragment 3 06-18-1863s.htm |     | a: |
| 1863-06-20.......put up tents, 7000 convalescents arrived, sick to barracks, rumor furlough if sickness or death, new uniform curious, pities army hot 06-20-1863s.htm |   | a: |
| 1863-06-28.......has not gotten telegraph she said sending, Fletch, hard march, wants furlough badly, 4 pictures in case Ida and Willie, afraid folks offended 06-28-1863s.htm |   | a: |
| 1863-06-28DB.......Dear Brother, would have written if knew in Utica, does not write all hardships, discourages from enlisting, love to father and mother 06-28-1863DBs.htm |   | a: |
| 1863-07-04.......no 4th of July, took telegram to Col who sent to War Dept, dream home so reverse- will not, picture with Fletch new uniform, rumor Lee captured 07-04-1863s.htm |   | a: |
| 1863-08-07.......got her picture, soldiers will fall in love, she cannot come or might be blackguarded, Jim Harper, new Camp Parole better, cannot get stamps 08-07-1863s.htm |   | a: |
| 1863-08-15.......upset letter from Bill Dagwell says she went twice to Hart and Dagwell for money, what Old [Top?] said at Carters, cannot do his country justice 08-15-1863s.htm |   | a: |
| 1863-08-16.......got letter and picture of Mother, carries a lot of pictures, yellow fever, whiskey and quinine, Joey, young [top?], Sarah Graff, true as steel 08-16-1863s.htm |   | a: |
| 1863-08-23.......has been a year, may never come home, remembers their parting, Regt reduced from 900 to 170, 4th Oneida had it easy, sending papers 08-23-1863s.htm |   | a: |
| 1863-08-28.......Julia letter, her hop picking, Dave Jones horrible news, Commissioners cannot agree on exchange, Negro Soldiers, busy in charge of 68 men, same power as Capt 08-28-1863s.htm |   | a: |
| 1863-09-03.......papers George not drafted, Sarah Graff, Mr. Place, mean women Washington, Philip Smith, Bill Sweatfager, Bill Dagwell, Charles Milburey, Brother Henry 09-03-1863s.htm |   | a: |
| 1863-09-08.......Lieut furlough, deserters to be shot, detached corps, Ben Chapman, Michael Keating, Phil Smith and Andy, Washington women, caught something, Tom, Sarah 09-08-1863s.htm |     | a: |
| 1863-09-16.......tramp to Washington, War Dept, Smithsonian, Navy Yard, Capitol, Dave Laughlin, father to Roscoe Conklin for furlough, Francis Kernin, strict orders 09-16-1863s.htm |   | a: |
| 1863-09-25.......got recommend Conklin, took to Lieut but exchange orders, going to front, Col said no one can leave, Rosecrans and Burnside, prisoners likely shot if take arms 09-25-1863s.htm |   | a: |
| 1863-10-08.......back with Regt, bewildered, Regt altered, looked on with pride, new drills, Uticans would wonder, uniforms, owe Uncle Sam, march 8 days rations 10-08-1863s.htm |   | a: |
| 1863-10-22.......13 days driving Rebels and retreating, captured more than them, Fletch march stocking feet, Fairfax, 96 conscripts, Bill Dagwood, paired with Fragment 1 10-22-1863s.htm |    | a: |
| 1863-11-09.......on move, 2 battles, took 2200 prisoners, 9 artillery, drove them to drown in river, log cabins, Rebel letter, railroad destroyed, Tom invalid corps, Garrard 11-09-1863s.htm |   | a: |
| 1863-11-24.......marched to cross Rapidan but rain and mud, Meade determined, Fredericksburg, made 2 pictures for a dollar, Boys need tobacco, Tom Washington discharge 11-24-1863s.htm |   | a: |
| 1863-12-20.......no locations, Bealton Station? cold, exposure, hungry, buying bread, tent with fireplace,sent 2 letters since crossed Rapidan, afraid she is cold in old house, Tom letter 12-20-1863s.htm |   | a: |
| 1864-02-06.......2 days guard duty rail road, cannons, captured 7 guerrillas included major, those wounded, Cone and Stanford arrested, how treated Jakes wife, Sarah, Zouave sketch 02-06-1864s.htm |   | a: |
| 1864-02-11.......Julia mad at Tom, all owed money but prepare they may never get it, bounties exhaust Treasury, take $2 a week from Baker and City subsidy, lengthy cruel war statement 02-11-1864s.htm |   | a: |