Past Voices: Letters Home

Find your roots and hear your ancestors' words across the generations. Discover your origins in old letters as ancestors tell their stories and reveal family relationships, past events, moments in time and details of family history. Add branches to your family tree as you search your ancestry and build your genealogy.

Saturday, June 29, 2013

Lucius E. Bidwell Co. B, 14th Connecticut Infantry KIA at the Wilderness May 5 1864

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Battlefield of The Wilderness In camp on North side of Rapidan, Feb. 7, 1864 My Dear Mother— Our Heavenly Father has again saved your...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

KIA: 1863 Letter from Alvin Brown of Ohio Infantry

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Removing wounded across Rappahannock River after battle of Chancellorsville http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.32812 Camp Brooks Stat...
Tuesday, June 04, 2013

1863 Letter Sergeant Neil A. Baker Company F, 50th North Carolina

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Civil War Soldier, N.C. Regiment Camp Near Goldsboro, North Carolina—February 1863 Dear Jane— Having a good opportunity of sending ...
Friday, May 31, 2013

1862 Letter From Confederate Soldier Andrew Jackson Bass in Camp Lee Virginia

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Soldier 38th Alabama Infantry, C.S.A. October 31, 1862 Camp Lee, near Richmond. Dear wife it is with pleasure I seat my self down t...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Letter from Simeon Baldwin, New Haven, Connecticut, 1808

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Sample Letter Letter: New Haven Jany 4th 1808 Dear Sir I have this day received yours of the 3d Inst wishing me to enquire more parti...
Monday, May 27, 2013

Letter to Alvah Bush, Albany New York, from her sister, M. M. Bush, Cooperstown, New York 1843

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Sample letter Cooperstown Oct 11th 1843. My dear Annah, Your’s of the 3d inst reached me by due course of mail, and I assure you I rea...
Saturday, May 25, 2013

1863 Civil War Letter from George B. Atkins to his father from Camp Douglas, Illinois

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The Texas Republican Marshall, Harrison County, Texas Saturday, April 25, 1863 Camp Douglas Chicago, Illinois March 19, 1863 Dear Fa...
Thursday, May 23, 2013

Dr. B. B. Allen to Dr. Charles H. Carothers of Missouri February 19, 1869

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An 1869 letter Freeport Sacramento County California February 19, 1869 Dr. C. H. Carothers— Sir—I presume that you will be surpris...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Betty Johnson of London to Hugh Walter Dickson in Rosemont Kansas 1917

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15 Birley Rd Whetstone Middlsex, No. 20 Nov. 29, 1917 My Dear Uncle Walter, I am sorry I have been so long in answering your very ...
Friday, May 20, 2011

Charleston 1830 Letter from Ann to her brother William M Reid

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Castle Pinckney 1830 Stampless Letter from Charleston SC. Written by "Ann" to her brother William M Reid. In Part... "...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Halifax MA Plymouth Co. 1750

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Handwritten legal document concerning the conveyance of property, from: "...Josiah Sturtevant of Hallifax in the county of Plymouth pra...
Monday, May 09, 2011

Addison Steuben Co. N.Y.

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Letter from Rev. A. H. [Parmelee], Addison, New York to Milton Badger D. D. N. York City, dated Feb 21, 1848. “The first Presbyterian Church...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

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CORTLAND VILLAGE N.Y. DEC 11, a 5 cents rate, and is addressed to Frederick Hyde, M.D., Geneva, Ontario co., NY and is a three page letter w...
Friday, February 18, 2011

Union Civil War Soldier's Letter 1863

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Potomac Creek Bridge ca 1861 to 1865 Union Civil War soldier's letter, dated Camp Massachusetts, Near Potomac Creek, Jan 28 1863, fr...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Quarryville, Pennsylvania,

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15 Letters Mailed to Teenager Joseph Denny of Quarryville, Pennsylvania Dated 1926 to 1929 Most Letters while Joseph was a Patient in Penns...
Saturday, February 05, 2011

Havana, Cuba, Jun 23 1806

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Havana, Cuba, Jun 23 1806, from Messrs. Gay & Bowen, to Charles Churchill, Newbern, North Carolina, with black Charleston/ SC, Jul 3 (1...
Monday, January 31, 2011

Union Civil War officer's letter dated Baltimore, Maryland, Oct 2 1864

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Union Civil War officer's letter dated Baltimore, Maryland, Oct 2 1864, from 1st LT James McMillan, Company "C," 141st New Yor...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

US Naval Personnel Separation Center 1946

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Letter posted Jun 21, 1946 Long Beach, from US Naval Personnel Separation Center, Lido Beach, Long Island, New York, June 18, 1946. It is t...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

1843 Brooklyn New York letter install heat city jail

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Letter from David Anderson to James G Bergen, Fort Hamilton Post Office, Kings County, New York. Anderson writes that he has inspected the ...
Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Scottish Immigrant, Mr. George Thompson

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Civil War letter from a Scottish immigrant, Mr. George Thompson, resident in Cincinnati, Ohio, to family in Galashiels, Scotland. Dated Aug...
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