Joseph A. Penly - Mother and sisters letters from home to a soldier and their view of the war

Letters Within Series

Date Author Recipient Title
Sept. 25, 1862 Joseph Albert Penly Eliza Davis Penly Soldier documents his enlistment in diary form
Sept. 11, 1864 Eliza Davis Penly Joseph Albert Penly Mother reads son still in battlefield
Sept. 18, 1864 Ellen Nellie Penly Joseph Albert Penly I hope Father Abraham will keep his seat for the next four years
Oct. 2, 1864 Ellen Nellie Penly Joseph Albert Penly Soldiers going to Canada to avoid draft
Oct. 4, 1864 Amanda S. Penly Joseph Albert Penly Life at home on the farm
Nov. 20, 1864 Ellen Nellie Penly Joseph Albert Penly I am very proud of my brother
Dec. 18, 1864 Eliza Davis Penly Joseph Albert Penly Mother's advice: get Ellen to hunt you up a factory girl
Jan. 2, 1865 Amanda S. Penly Joseph Albert Penly Sisters writing of good times back home on the farm
Feb. 20, 1865 Eliza Davis Penly Joseph Albert Penly The last battle frightened the selectmen has offered to pay four hundred to the drafted man
March 12, 1865 Atwilda Rose Andrews Joseph Albert Penly Young girl with crush writing soldier about Sleighing
March 19, 1865 Amanda S. Penly Joseph Albert Penly Seeing prisoners on the home front
April 16, 1865 Atwilda Rose Andrews Joseph Albert Penly Rejoice Lee's Army is Captured but now the great woe that our president is dead. Our VP is a drunk.
April 23, 1865 Eliza Davis Penly Joseph Albert Penly Mother adds note about the surrender of Lee to Grant and then the death of Lincoln
May 3, 1865 Emily Orissa Chase Joseph Albert Penly Signs of the war ending, President dead
May 21, 1865 Atwilda Rose Andrews Joseph Albert Penly I suppose it will be hard for the soldiers to settle down
May 28, 1865 Amanda S. Penly Joseph Albert Penly Sherman’s troops were agoing to Alexandria and Father is under him
Nov. 24, 1886 Joseph Albert Penly Step Father Writing to step-father about farm and an emergency surgery