Freeman S Dunklee Letter

[Jase]

I have no idea how a friend of the family came to have this in her possession here in Alabama. I discovered it in her Bible after she passed away. I thought I would share it.

Pvt. Freeman S. Dunklee

Attended the Elgin Academy
The Elgin Union Grays
Enlisted Aug. 8, 1863
A Co. 36th Ill. Vol. Inf.
Fox River Regiment
Listed home of record as Barrington, Ill's.
Mustered In at Camp Hammond in Montgomery, Ill's Sept. 21, 1861.
Wounded in Action at Stones River.
Transferred to the Veterans Reserve Corps (date unknown)

 

[War Horse]

Very interesting. Thank you for sharing.

 

[rosefiend]

Transcription (tho autocorrect fixed an error)


Gadfly Barry Co. Mo. April 3rd


(Barry County is right on the Arkansas border: https://www.google.com/maps/place/B...2!3m1!1s0x87c8cc0439f19ab7:0x30da3f9743120c2a)


Dear Father


We have an opportunity to send money the same as we did last payday & I send $20 twenty dollars & Edward Nute sends $10 ten dollars & Milton sends $25 twenty dollars You may take mine into the common stock to the best advantage according to your & Charlie's judgement


Please forward Edwards to his father and Miltons to Ansel and oblige them


F. S. Dunklee

 

[Jase]

The odd thing is I had two letters from F. S. Dunklee. I scanned one many years ago and uploaded it to a few sites. I had forgotten about it, found this one among other items and scanned this one thinking it was the same one. As I searched the web, I found the other letter I scanned but now I have no idea where the original is. Below is a link to the original letter I found and scanned some years ago. FYI

https://sparedshared9.wordpress.com/2015/11/05/1863-freeman-stanton-dunklee-to-lyman-dunklee/

 

[johnrfenton]

Does anyone still have any letters from him? I recently purchased one and I would like to see if I could find some more. Thanks

 

[Jase]

I have one... and possibly a second one somewhere but I wouldn't begin to know where to look. I know I have one for sure. Both of these were scanned by me... but one was a few years back. My wife at the time would throw away things if it didn't involve a receipt for her latest shopping spree...lol