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    Ann's Letters: A Newly Released Collection of Letters from the American Civil War
    Ann's Letters: A Newly Released Collection of Letters from the American Civil War
    Ann's Letters: A Newly Released Collection of Letters from the American Civil War
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    Ann's Letters: A Newly Released Collection of Letters from the American Civil War

    By Gerald Dougherty

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    ANN'S LETTERS were Preserved, Personal, Private, Previously un-Published, but often, Privileged and Public. Written by Civil War troops, their families and friends. YOU ARE INVITED! Follow their travels through the War. Share their stories. Experience their feelings, and Understand their actions. Peer into unique windows of Life at Home, soothing the troops fighting the Civil War. Discover what the Families were facing while their Dads and Brothers were away. Experience the threats of diseases on every side, with births and deaths, and misery, a part of Every Day. Realize the anxieties, of hoping your loved ones were OK. Appreciate the welcome support of friends and neighbors, which was needed to survive. Congratulate the Heroes, often being the Wives and Children, who kept the home and community safe.Thank the troops who defended their beliefs. Bless the Patriots who helped their World evolve and become stronger. Honor those who saved these letters so we could look through these Windows onto OUR HISTORY. Compare many parts of Life in the 1860's with Yours Today.
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    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateFeb 10, 2014
    ISBN9781491716205
    Ann's Letters: A Newly Released Collection of Letters from the American Civil War
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    Gerald Dougherty

    Jerry is currently retired in Atlanta, Georgia, with his wife of 56 years, where they enjoy their 4 married children and 6 grandchildren. His Chemical Engineering degree from the University of Toledo, Oil industry, Chemical and Laser experiences have included Manufacturing, Research, Marketing, and Sales, as well as Technical Writing and Training. Although he was born, trained and started his life and family in the North, he has also loved living in the South for more than 40 years. This has helped him learn the cultures of both the North and the South, to relate to the Civil War. His interests in family and education gives him a respect for family dedication and sacrifices in the Patriotic commitment to support troops and their ideals. Jerry knows that today's families are NOT much different from those of 150 years ago.

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      Ann's Letters - Gerald Dougherty

      Ann’s Letters

      A Newly Released Collection of Letters

      from the American Civil War

      Gerald Dougherty

      iUniverse LLC

      Bloomington

      Ann’s Letters

      A Newly Released Collection of Letters from the American Civil War

      Copyright © 2014 Gerald Dougherty.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4917-1619-9 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4917-1620-5 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013921371

      iUniverse rev. date: 02/07/2014

      Table of Contents

      About The Author

      Thank You

      Introduction

      The Letters: Maggie J.Harper to Daniel Huffman, Dec. 16, 1861

      A-1

      A-2

      Letter 1: William Bowman to David Huffman, Sept. 1862

      LTR1a

      LTR1b

      Letter 2: Wm Bowman to David Huffman, Sept. 24, 1862, Parkersburg, Va

      LTR2a

      LTR2b

      Letter 3: Wm Bowman to David Huffman, Jan. 28, 1863, Martinsburgh, Va

      LTR3a

      LTR3b

      Letter 4: John J. Huffman to his bro, Daniel Feb. 13, 1863 Danville,KY,

      LTR4a

      LTR4b

      Letter 5: J.J.Huffman to Ann, Sept 19,-20, 1863 near Chickamauga, TN

      LTR5a

      LTR5b

      Letter 6: David Huffman to Ann, November 20, 1863 Fosterville TN, near Nashville,TN

      LTR6a

      LTR6b

      Letter 7: Catharine McCreery to Ann Huffman, Mar 14, 1864, Liberty Twp, Ohio

      LTR 7a

      LTR 7b

      Letter 8: JW Kimmel to Ann Huffman, (missing letter) Blue Springs Camp, TN

      Letter 9: JW Kimmel to Ann, Apr 21, 1864 Camp Blue Springs, TN

      LTR 9a

      LTR 9b

      LTR 9c

      LTR 9d

      Letter 10: J.J.Huffman to E.A Huffman(Ann), prior to Apr 25, 64

      Letter 11: J.J.Huffman to Ann, April 25, 1864, Tullahoma, TN

      LTR 11a

      LTR 11b

      Letter 12: J.J.Huffman to Ann, May 22, 1864, Kingston, GA Atlanta Campaign

      LTR 12a

      LTR 12b

      Letter 13: Wm Bowman to David Huffman, June 2, 1864, Andersonville Prison, GA (Camp Sumter) Prisoner

      LTR 13a

      LTR 13b

      Letter 14: Ruth Davy to Ann, June 6, 1864 New Cumberland, Ohio

      LTR14a

      LTR14b

      Letter 15: Mathilda Huffman to Ann, July 14, 1864 New Cumberland, Ohio

      LTR15a

      LTR15b

      Letter 16: C.J.Huffman to Ann, Aug, 5, 1864 New Cumberland, Ohio

      LTR16a

      LTR16b

      Letter 17: J.J.Huffman to Ann, Sept 11, 1864 Atlanta, GA

      LTR17a

      LTR17b

      Letter 18: Mathilda Huffman to Ann, Sept 28, 1864 New Cumberland, Ohio

      LTR18a

      LTR18b

      Letter 19: J.W. Kimmel to Ann, Oct 26, 1864 Gailsville, (Gaylesville), Alabama

      LTR19a

      LTR 19b

      Letter 20: J.J. Huffman to Ann, Nov 1, 1864 Atlanta, GA

      LTR20a

      LTR20b

      Letter 21: C.J. Huffman to Ann, Nov, 3, 1864, New Cumberland, O

      LTR21a

      LTR21b

      Letter 22: C.J.Huffman to Ann, Jan 8, 1865 New Cumberland, Ohio

      LTR22a

      LTR22b

      Letter 23: Mathilda to Ann, Mar 6, 1865 New Cumberland, Ohio

      LTR23a

      LTR23b

      Letter 24: C.J.Huffman to Ann, Mar 9, 1865 New Cumberland, Ohio

      LTR24a

      LTR24b

      Letter 25: J.J.Huffman to Ann, March 28, 1865 Goldsboro, No. Carolina

      LTR25a

      LTR25b

      Letter 26: Wm Bowman to Ann, Apr 25, 1865 New Cumberland, Ohio

      LTR26a

      LTR26b

      Letter 27: J.J.Huffman to Ann, Apr 28, 1865 Raleigh, NC

      LTR27A

      LTR27b

      Letter 28: Mathilda to Ann, May 18, 1865

      LTR28a

      LTR28b

      Letter 29: J.J.Huffman to Ann, June 28 1865 Indianapolis, IN

      LTR29a

      LTR29b

      NOTES: (Letter 29) on JOHN J. HUFFMAN: (85 th Indiana Volunteer Infantry)

      NOTES on DAVID HUFFMAN; (85 th Indiana Volunteer Infantry)

      NOTES on JOSEPH. W. KIMMEL: (51 st Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry)

      NOTES on GEORGE HILLICKS:—FLAGSTAFF (Cpl, Co. L, 16 th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry)

      NOTES on WILLIAM BOWMAN: (Private, 126 th Ohio Volunteer Infantry)

      NOTES on WILLIAM BOWMAN and ANN HUFFMAN:

      Letter 30: Mary Kimmel to Ann, Aug 16, 1865 New Cumberland, Ohio

      LTR30a

      LTR30b

      LTR30c

      LTR30d

      LTR30e

      LTR30f

      Epilogue

      Tribute to the Honor of Ordinary Citizens

      51 St Regiment Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry

      85 Th Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry

      126 Th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry

      Notable Quotations from Ann’s Letters

      Persons of Interest In Ann’s Letters

      Discharge Papers, June 23, 1865, Wm Bowman

      Oath of Identity, pension, Jan26’82, Wm Bowman

      About The Author

      GERALD DOUGHERTY

      Jerry

      is a Northern-bred, Technical Engineer, Analytical, and a Southern Transplant for 40 years, Patriotic, with an Understanding of-, and Respect for-, Family Dedication and Sacrifices in the Commitment to Support their Troops and Ideals. He is retired in Atlanta, GA, with his wife of 56 years, where they enjoy their four married children and six grand-children.

      Although he was born, trained, and started his life and family in the North, he has also loved living in the South. This has helped him learn the cultures of both the North and the South to relate to the Civil War.

      This collection shows us some of the Real thoughts and actions basic to everyone, in Family Life. It also punctuates the importance of Family and Friends, and the support they provide, in stressful times.

      Jerry

      knows that today’s families are NOT much different from those of 150 years ago.

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      Thank You

      I am pleased, while writing this volume, to have the belated opportunity to thank Eve Ann Huffman, who was a young woman during the Civil War, for saving this collection of Civil War Letters.

      Did she have an uncanny foresight for saving historical items, or, as was really more likely, was she merely a young girl with a passion for saving all of the letters she received? (Letter writing was a rapidly-developing skill at this time, and mail services were meager, at best. It is amazing that letters to and from soldiers got delivered at all.)

      Or, perhaps, did she save some of the letters because they included the words of guidance from, and connections to, her two older brothers?

      We will never know her reasons, for certain, but we all greatly appreciate her care in saving the mementoes from her corner of history.

      Thanks, too, to her daughter-in-law, Becky Dougherty Bowman, who carried the later responsibility of passing them along to our Mother, Lillian Thomas Dougherty, who then saw them safely to us.

      The letters have suffered no significant casualty in the 150 years of their existence because of the careful handling by each of these folks. Despite an 80-year period when the letters were stored in the upstairs of a weather-exposed barn in central Ohio, and couldn’t enjoy air-conditioning until the late 1980’s, they have survived in surprisingly good condition.

      I thank, too, the contribution of a distant cousin, Jim Dohren, in separately copying and transcribing many of the letters for our separate purposes.

      Special thanks to my granddaughter, Gentry Susan Moore, for her guidance in designing the cover for the book.

      I give my sincere thanks and gratitude to Mr. Gordon Jones and Ms. Sue Ver Hoev of the Atlanta History Center for their encouragement to publish these letters for past, present and future students of the Civil War.

      Thanks are in order, as well, to the many others who have expressed their support and sentiments during the preparation of this volume. I have appreciated your enthusiasm.

      THANK YOU!

      Introduction

      ANN’S LETTERS began as a collection of hand-written letters from Civil War Troops, their families and friends. While translating the originals I realized that they represented a wide variety of levels of education, and verbal skills, during an era when formal schooling was still limited.

      I have presented the translation in the same visual layout as the originals, so that the reader may easily compare them with the pictures of the originals.

      The letters serve as chapters of this book, since no other separation seems logical.

      I have deliberately included my sic notes to allow the reader to fully experience the feeling of the letters, as well as the translation, and to assist the reader in his understanding. Spelling corrections, too, have been included to improve the reading speed. Notes and expansions of subject matter within the letters are included with the appropriate letters throughout the text. While removing such matter to a remote section

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