Letter from Oscar Allen to his cousin Hetty Brackney
| Title | Letter from Oscar Allen to his cousin Hetty Brackney |
|---|---|
| Subject | Allen, Oscar |
| Brackney, Hetty | |
| Brackney family | |
| United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 118th (1862-1865) | |
| United States. -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives | |
| Description | Letter from Oscar Allen to his cousin Hetty Brackney about having a photograph taken and troop activity. |
| Creator | Allen, Oscar |
| Source | Brackney family papers; MMS-0891; Center for Archival Collections; University Libraries; Bowling Green State University |
| Date | 1863-07-26 |
| Rights |
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| Format | Correspondence |
| application/pdf | |
| Language | eng |
| Identifier | mms00891_i00006 |
| https://digitalgallery.bgsu.edu/items/show/32722 | |
| Spatial Coverage | Kentucky |
| Type | Text |
Benton Station Ky July 26th 1863 Dear Cousin Hetty It is with much pleasure that I seat my self this Sabeth morning to try to ansure your kind and welcom letter which came to hand about a week ago and was read with plesure I am well at presant and hope that you are enjoying the same blesing I was at the Sity the other day and I got sum fotgrafts taken and I will send you one of them they are not taken vary well but it lokes a little like me I guess I would like to come home if I could and I expect that I would binn home now if it had not binn for the morgan raid in ohio that stoped the furlough bisness but I think that it dun sum of them Buter nuts sum good don't you think so for he stole horses from them as well as any other man that day I was at the Sity I saw two boat loads of old Johns men thay was ankered in the midle of the river the rebs is a gitting a general flogging now every whare I think that this Rebellion will sone be scrached out I remain your cousin |
