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- GLC#
- GLC03523.31.19-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 8 November 1862
- Author/Creator
- Blanchard, Ira, 1835-?
- Title
- to Mary (Wright) Kellogg
- Place Written
- Carroll Station,Tennessee
- Pagination
- 8 p. : Height: 19.7 cm, Width: 23.9 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Blanchard writes to Mary Wright from Carroll Station. Includes the words of a love song. Describes the "darkies" returning home from the cotton fields with baskets of cotton on their heads. Explains what a cotton gin does and says the cotton fields are beautiful when fully ripe. Discusses the different responsibilities of soldiers and sergeants on guard duty. States part of his Brigade has gone to Boliver, Tennessee and if no attack occurs, Union General Ulysses S. Grant will move them to Holly Springs, Mississippi. Reports peaches are out of season but have been replaced with persimmons, grapes, and many different types of nuts. Remarks Union General George B. McClellan is generally liked but considered slow. Says the removal of Union General Don C. Buell was an excellent idea and he now expects "...stirring events in the West."
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