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to unknown [incomplete]

Discusses his disappointment at the defeat of the Maine Law in his state. Says he will return home at the end of the school session. Letter is incoherent due to missing pages.

GLC03523.10.248

Envelope addressed to Bell Wharton

Yellow envelope addressed to Bell Wharton in Champaign, Ohio. Probably sent from Memphis, Tennessee.

GLC03523.10.249

Envelope addressed to J. M. Maitland

Envelope addressed to J.M. Maitland in Memphis, Tennessee.

GLC03523.10.250

Dear Cousin Joseph

Letter from cousin Liddie. Mentions rainy weather. Gives news of recent marriages and relationships. "Eliza Chamberlain has more suitors than true lovers, she can take a buggy ride anytime if any young man or married man comes anytime in the night."...

GLC03523.10.251

to Bell

Four line love poem to Bell lamenting being apart. Probably from Joseph Maitland.

GLC03523.10.252

to [Joseph M. Maitland]

Informs of mother's injury to her hand while opening a jar. Says mother wants him to come home. Reports the Baptist church now has a singing school and most of the neighborhood has joined. Tells him he will start school next week. Mentions he sold...

GLC03523.10.253

to [Elhanan Mast]

Reports on many children dying of dysentery. Says the weather has been dry all summer an the corn crop will be short. Comments the political situation is unsettled, with much name-calling and disagreement about the war. Gives him an objective...

GLC03523.10.254

to unknown

Reports weather conditions are good for making molasses and sugar. Informs him of the activities of neighbors and friends. Letter is a fragment.

GLC03523.10.255

to My Dear Son

Says Joseph is complaining about the harvest. Reports all the hay is done and the corn looks good. Informs there will be a festival at the church and people are very excited about it. Begs him not to study too much and to exercise to keep his health.

GLC03523.10.256

to unknown

Reports what he knows about the promotion that just occurred and why Elhanan did not get it. Asks him to keep the information private. Discusses the crops. Says he sold eleven acres of land. Comments that some neighbors "...are down on the war and...

GLC03523.10.257

to Cousin Joe

Gives an accounting of crop prices, says they are all very low and business is not good. Reports there were 1300 hogs sold in his county in four days. Informs he is teaching a class of fifty-eight students in his home. Discusses many friends and...

GLC03523.10.258

Collection of Abram Bogart [Decimalized .01-.32]

Abram Bogart's correspondence discusses the war and his experience in the army. The collection of letters primarily details army life, much of which focuses on his disdain for senior officers and the treatment of privates in the army. The vast...

GLC03523.11

to Mary M. Bogart

Reports to his wife from Fairfax Seminary Hospital, Virginia. Tells her that there will be no more furloughs given for a while, but that he will come home when the war is over. Asks her to write "all the news and some of the olds for I have got...

GLC03523.11.06

to Mary M. Bogart

Writes to his wife, noting that he received her letter a few days ago, and apologizes for being too lazy to answer it until now. He includes trinkets for the children in the letter, and tells her that "I should like to send you all a kiss if I could...

GLC03523.11.07

to Mary M. Bogart

Writes to his wife from Fairfax Seminary Hospital to let her know where he is. He reports that he could not move along with the rest of the regiment as he is "quite lame." He speculates that he will "get over it when warm weather comes" so "do not...

GLC03523.11.08

to Mary M. Bogart and friend [incomplete]

Writes letter addressed to his wife and friend, which explains that he left Yorktown this morning and is on march with the army to Richmond. Reports that they "have a good general at our hand this time and a good supply of cannon..." Shares with them...

GLC03523.11.09

to Mary M. Bogart

Reports to his wife that his camp is quite sickly as the "measles have made their apearence." Writes that he has sent his pay, which is 25 dollars, minus "two and a few cents," which he kept for himself because "a man can't live here without some...

GLC03523.11.10

to Mary M. Bogart

Writes to his wife telling her he wished she wrote more often as he is lonely and in a "godforsaken plase for we are hemed in here on an island where we can see nor hear nothing but death and distruction on every side..." He reports to her that their...

GLC03523.11.11

to Mary M. Bogart

Writes to wife, addressing her as "friend," inquiring about his parents, and why they have not written to him more than they have. Speculates that it is because he has not sent home more money and asks his wife if there is perhaps something between...

GLC03523.11.12

to dear friends, care of Mary M. Bogart

Writes to his friends asking them to write him. Tells them that he needs a "friendely letter to chear us on to victory and death for some die here for the dead volly sounds pretty often and it is lonely not to hear from reletives to dround trouble...

GLC03523.11.13

to Mary M. Bogart and friend

Begins his letter, "Dear Wife and only friend on earth it is to you that I write a few lines in rememberence of old times..." Speculates that "there must be a good many widows and orfant children now in the land that are made so by this war..." Asks...

GLC03523.11.14

to Mary M. Bogart

Writes to his wife, "how I do want to se you once more if the lord so wills that I can and my children to for I have got tired of this war is ever a fellow was in this world for they hant but a few left for duty in the regement and grow less every...

GLC03523.11.15

to Mary M. Bogart

Addresses his letter to his wife, "companion and friend," and tells her that he hopes she is feeling well and taking good care of their children. Asks that she not speak anymore of him getting a discharge, as "that is a thing hard to get here..."...

GLC03523.11.16

to Mary M. Bogart

Writes to wife expressing "much love" and hopes to speak "face to face" once again. Inquires about how she will live this winter and who will do things such as collect her wood. Asks her "who comes to se you now are a lone whether westys folks come...

GLC03523.11.17

to Mary M. Bogart

Writes to wife that he "hopes she is enjoying life while you have it for we dont know where death will come to us..." Expresses great concern for both of their livelihood, as he believes that "we are all in danger at home and a broad..." Tells her...

GLC03523.11.18