Record Data
Source citation
Nannie Colwell to James Colwell, December 15, 1861, Carlisle, PA, in David G. Colwell, The Bitter Fruits: The Civil War Comes to a Small Town in Pennsylvania (Carlisle: Cumberland County Historical Society, 1998), 61.
Type
Letter
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Don Sailer, Dickinson College
Transcription date
Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
Carlisle DEC 15 / 61 My Dear Father I can read. This is my first letter. [illegible] [come?] home. The man walked the wire and we saw him. I have a sore toe. The shop windows look like Christmas. Write me soon. Brothers a good boy and almost as pretty as you are. I send a big kiss. From your little daughter Nannie Colwell
