Nannie Colwell to James Colwell, December 15, 1861

    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.
    Author (from)
    Colwell, Nannie
    Type
    Letter
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Don Sailer, Dickinson College
    Transcription date
    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
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