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 |