Valley of the Shadow
The War Years
Spring 1861–Spring 1865

Letters & Diaries

letters

Henry M. Erisman (1862)

Henry Erisman was a 26-year-old shoemaker when he enlisted in the 77th Pa. in 1861. He served as a sergeant in this regiment, and these three letters offer his view of the 77th’s encounters—both conversations and skirmishes—with Confederate soldiers around Nashville in 1862.