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Bets Radley
Feb 12, 2016, 11:12:11 PM2/12/16
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Dan
What a fantastic undertaking and will be much appreciated in the future. For the present, I am interested in any letters from Walter Cole White. He served in Co. G of the 148th Ohio Nat'l Guard under the 100-day troops. He enlisted 1 May 1864 and was discharged on 14 September 1864. He was from Washington County, Ohio
Hope you can find a letter he wrote, although I'm not sure his parents were living at the time.
Thank you for your offer.
Bets
"Like branches on a tree, our lives may grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one."
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"J. Reinhart" <jrrein...@gmail.com>: Feb 12 02:59PM -0500
I would be interested in any letters from the 9th Ohio Infantry Thanks Joe Reinhart jre...@yahoo.com On Oct 27, 2015, at 21:40, 'Dan Masters' via Ohio in the Civil War <ohio-in-the...@googlegroups.com> wrote: Just wanted to let my fellow Civil War researchers know that I have constructed a database that lists all of the letters written by soldiers back to their hometown newspapers during the war. This project is an outgrowth of work that I did for the Center for Archival Collections at BGSU about 8-10 years ago; it expands on the northwest Ohio focus to now include newspapers from throughout the state. The database is always growing- the most recent index I completed was of the Western Reserve Chronicle from Warren, Ohio- this pushed the total of indexed letters to 4,263. Correspondence from many Ohio units of all types (infantry, cavalry, and artillery), in all theaters of the war (eastern, western, far western), and even a few from the Navy. The database also has hundreds of letters written by soldiers serving in non-Ohio units, especially Iowa, Indiana, New York, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Descriptions of battles famous, infamous, and obscure provide the bulk of the correspondence, along with the odd Army controversy, the seedier side of the war (courts-martial, etc.), and of course the massive outpouring of correspondence in March-May 1863 when it seemed like every soldier in Blue wrote home to press the home folks to continue the vigorous prosecution of the war. The breadth, depth, and overall quality of many of these letters are superb; they provide an insight and staggering amount of detail regarding the lives and experiences of our Civil War veterans. Some soldiers had letters published on an almost weekly basis; others only had one letter published; many of these accounts have not seen the light of day since their publication 150+ years ago. I would be happy to perform lookups in this database upon request. The database can be sorted, sliced, and diced in a multitude of ways: by state, regiment, company, county, newspaper, soldier, timeframe, campaign, battle, etc. Just let me know what you're looking for and I'll send you the results. One of the great things that has changed over the past few years is that so many of these newspapers are now available online through either the Library On Congress' Chronicling America site or through Google Newspapers. Once you know where to look, you will be able to read these lost gems of Civil War history for yourself without having to spend countless hours trolling through endless reels of microfilm trying to find them. I am currently in process of indexing the Delaware Gazette and should have this complete within the next 10 days- this should add another 250 letters to the database. I have identified 32 more Ohio newspapers that I will be indexing next- all of these available online. Long term, I would like to index the remaining 139 Ohio state newspapers that have not yet been placed online-all of them are available on microfilm from the Ohio Historical Society. Then there is another 195 online newspapers from out of state...but I'll stick with Ohio for now. I have limited my indexing to those newspapers published between April 15, 1861-May 31, 1865, embracing the primary timeline of combat operations. The database, while not yet complete, includes the completed indexes of the following 38 newspapers: Allen County Democrat Ashtabula Weekly Telegraph Bryan Democrat Bryan Press and Leader Bryan Union Press Bucyrus Journal Church Advocate (Lancaster, PA) Crawford County Forum Daily Toledo Herald and Times Darke County Democrat Defiance Democrat Elyria Independent Democrat Fostoria News Fremont Journal Fremont Sentinel Hancock Courier Hancock Jeffersonian Highland Weekly News Kalida Sentinel Lima Weekly Gazette Napoleon North-West Norwalk Experiment Norwalk Reflector Ottawa Democrat Ottawa Telegram Paulding Independent Perrysburg Journal Sandusky Democrat Seneca Advertiser Tiffin Weekly Tribune Toledo Blade Toledo Daily Commercial Union Press (Bryan, OH) Western Reserve Chronicle Williams County Leader Wood County Independent Wyandot Democratic Union Wyandot Pioneer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ohio in the Civil War" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ohio-in-the-civil...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. |
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Dan Masters
Feb 14, 2016, 1:39:06 PM2/14/16
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Bets:
Thanks for the note. Thus far, I haven't come across anything on the 148th OVI. As the regiment was raised in Washington and Vinton Counties, I'd suggest browsing through the summer of 1864 issues of the McArthur Democrat which are available online at http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87075163/issues/1864/
The Ohio Historical Society has copies of the several Marietta newspapers that were published during the war-good chance that there should be some letters from the 148th OVI in there as well. Unfortunately, I do not think that those are available online.
Best of luck in your search.
Best Regards,
Dan
You never know what you might find.
On Friday, February 12, 2016 at 11:12:11 PM UTC-5, Bets Radley wrote:
DanWhat a fantastic undertaking and will be much appreciated in the future. For the present, I am interested in any letters from Walter Cole White. He served in Co. G of the 148th Ohio Nat'l Guard under the 100-day troops. He enlisted 1 May 1864 and was discharged on 14 September 1864. He was from Washington County, OhioHope you can find a letter he wrote, although I'm not sure his parents were living at the time.Thank you for your offer.
Bets
"Like branches on a tree, our lives may grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one."
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