Dianne and Linda have come and gone now. It was a wonderful three-day visit full of exhausting, but rewarding work. Nancy and I began preparations a couple weeks ago, pulling out documents, letters, photos that had been collected during more than thirty years of on and off research. By the time we had it all out, we were stunned. More than 500 photos going back more than a century. But that was not the best part.
Among the typescripts (hundreds of pages) that I have just begun to scan, were transcriptions of letters home from “boys” written in the fall of 1861 through most of 1862 bearing return addresses of places like “Paw Paw Tunnel, Virginia” and “Fort Murray” and “Huttonville” and “Phillippi” in Virginia. Yes, Civil War. Letters home. More2cum.