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A selection of original Civil War correspondence between soldiers from the battlefields and their family members and friends on the homefront.
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This Civil War letter to General Sanford, written on May 30, 1861, describes her distress at the occupation of her home, Arlington House, by Northern troops.
It's been a long-standing practice for soldiers at war to compose letters to home. Sometimes they're able to send them, sometimes they ...
A Letter Home from Fort Marcy - Civil War Defenses of Washington ...
This morning, I feel comfortably situated, and do not wish for anything more than the chunk of bread and the tinful of sweet, smoking coffee ...
The letters Ely Parker wrote to his family while he was in the Army ...
Instead of thinking of me as a dead man, I want you to lay up in your mind the conviction that I am coming home again to gladden by my presence the heart of ...
Civil War Letters | National Postal Museum
Not all Civil War letter-writers had such pleasant thoughts as love of home and family on their minds. James Paxton, a Confederate soldier confined as a ...
Antietam: Letters and Diaries of Soldiers and Civilians
Afterwards, have the students imagine that they are Civil War soldiers or civilians. ... I wish that I was home today; I have got a very mean job.
A collection of original Civil War Letters | Soldier's Tales
Left Yorktown for home July 2. Mustered out July 13, 1863. Losses - Regiment lost 8 by disease. The following letter was written in 1923, ...
About this Collection | Donald Benham Civil War Collection
Letters in the collection sent home by soldiers reveal details of camp life, enlistment payments and quotas, battle engagements, military strategies, issues ...
Letters Home Series: Civil War Era Manuscripts from the Collection
This collection consists largely of correspondence to Juliette Baker (1842-1931); better known as “Julia” to her correspondents.
Between Home and the Front: Civil War Letters of the Walters Family
Walters in a heartfelt letter marking a year since she saw her husband David Walters who had volunteered with the Union army. The Walters family ...
Between Home and the Front: Civil War Letters of the Walters Family
Description. The personal letters of Americans during the Civil War preserve first-person records of news, people, and emotions that humanize the horrific ...
Letters Home From The Civil War
Letters Home From The Civil War. This section is dedicated to the words of those brave men and women who participated in the American Civil War and shared ...
Letters Home to Sarah: The Civil War Letters of Guy C. Taylor, Thirty ...
Forgotten for more than a century in an old cardboard box, these are the letters of Guy Carlton Taylor, a farmer who served in the thirty-sixth Wisconsin ...
"My Dear Wife..." Letters from a Civil War Soldier
There is a young man coming home with me when I come--I don't know when that will be--by the name of Mr. Johnson. Tell Mary(1) to have her cap set for him when ...
Letters Home from an Iowa Soldier in the American Civil War
These letters are part of a collection written by Newton Robert Scott, Private, Company A, of the 36th Infantry, Iowa Volunteers, during the ...
Letters from a Confederate soldier
I hope the time is not far distant when this old war will stop so we can all get back home to our wives and more. I must bring my letter to a ...
Civil War Letters: Text-Based Documents as a Primary Source
Using the Text-based Documents (Civil War Letters) students will be able to: ... You have no idea how much good it does a soldier to get a letter from home and ...
A Letter Home | Timeless - Library of Congress Blogs
A page from his letter, sent from Medon, Tenn., and dated August 24, 1862, is a featured item in the Library's “The Civil War in America” ...