Civil War Sailor in Amherst, NH

Civil War surgeon Allen S. Heath (b. 1821). Surgeon on the staffs of General King in West Virginia and of General Michael Corcoran's Irish Legion in Georgia. 2 war-dated ALSs, each signed “Allen S. Heath,†lightly-lined, five x 8, each 4 sides on 2 adjoining pages, US Steamer Daylight off Fortress Monroe, both dated July 8, 1861. In separate letters to his brother, and to his wife and children before the USS Daylight undertakes a foray down the coast to North Carolina in search of enemy shipping and Confederates. To his brother, he writes