36th Illinois Regt
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Hello, Bigred, Stony and Dilandu and East Tennessee Roots thank you for posting that report of the battle, harrowing stuff, I can't imagine what it must have been like to actually live through such things. I think I have seen Nelson Sherwood before, he looks familiar from my searching around. Atleast if I can't find my relative's photos, I can see what the other soldiers looked like and how they were dressed and their weapons. And their thoughts, I happened across a letter my great great grandpa wrote during the war.
Is this CRAZY or what, I found this online one day and it blew me away. As to the sister he is writing to, we don't know who she is, according to the Stanton history book there was an older sister named Mary, but that is all we know about that. I have speculated that Laverne could have been writing this to Lydia, who was going to marry his now deceased brother Tolmus. Perhaps he was addressing her as "sister" because of that. We simply don't know.
AND I'd like to know where this letter was found and who had it and who bought it.
Hey it's my great great grandpa! give it back.
http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/civil-war-1864-letter-soldier-36th-542210828
The letter from the attached link, but do click the link as well and see the actual letter. and some other Civil War stuff.
CIVIL WAR - 1864 LETTER FROM SOLDIER IN 36TH ILLINOIS REGT AT HOME ON FURLOUGH
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SOLD DATE: Jul 28, 2014
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CIVIL WAR SOLDIER'S LETTER, FROM LAVERN STANTON, CO. H, 36TH REGIMENT ILLINOIS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY - WRITTEN WHILE AT HOME ON FURLOUGH AT CARY STATION, ILLINOIS SHORTLY AFTER RE-ENLISTING AS A VETERAN - GREAT CONTENT - ANXIOUS TO GET BACK TO THE WAR.
3+ pgs. letter, approx. 5" x 8", dated at Cary Station, Illinois, Feb. 24, 1864, from Lavern Stanton, Co. H, 36th Illinois Regiment, to his sister.
Cary Station, in McHenry County, Illinois, is now the town of Cary.
The writer of this letter, Lavern Stanton, was mustered into Co. H., 36th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, on Sept. 23, 1861. He re-enlisted as a Veteran after his 3 years service was up in 1864, and was mustered out as a Corporal on Oct. 8, 1865. Company H was raised from men in McHenry County, Illinois, where Stanton lived.
The 36th Illinois Regt. saw much hard fighting during the Civil War, participating in the battles of Pea Ridge, Perryville, Stone's River, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and in Sherman's march through Georgia, fighting in the Battles of Resaca, Atlanta, Kennesaw Mountain, and the Battles of Franklin, Tennessee and Nashville. The Regiment lost 11 Officers & 193 enlisted men killed in action or died of wounds, and 1 Officer and 127 men died of disease, for a total of 332 fatalities.
This letter has great content, in which Lavern Stanton writes his sister that he has re-enlisted and is home on furlough (soldiers who re-enlisted as veterans in 1864 received furloughs as one of the inducements to reenlist), but writes that he is anxious to return to the war, and its excitement, being rather bored at home. He writes that he re-enlisted because after all the men he has seen killed, and all the privations he has suffered, he wants to see the war through to the end. When Stanton returned to the war, he certainly saw plenty of action, fighting in Sherman's Georgia campaign, the fall of Atlanta, and the horrific Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, in which Hood finally destroyed his own army.
Includes (spelling corrected):
"I thought I would improve the present opportunity by writing you a few lines to let you hear that I am well and enjoying myself very well at present, and hope these will find you as highly favored.
I have reenlisted and am now home on furlough, as you will see by looking at the date of this....I shall return to camp the seventh of next month. I get so lonesome here sometimes that I wish I was back in the field where there is some excitement that helps to keep our spirits and makes men of boys. You may wonder at my reenlisting, but I have seen too much of this accursed rebellion to back out now. I have withstood many trials and privations. I have seen many a brave and good boy fall around me. Anyone would think that such scenes as we have passed through would discourage the army. Every man they see fall, every privation endured, every difficulty they have to surmount, only stimulates them on to greater deeds of daring, and only makes them more determined to see the end of this great civil war which has spread desolation through our once happy and peaceable country....
PS. Write soon and direct to Co. H, 36th Illinois Veteran Volunteers."
Fine.
Is this CRAZY or what, I found this online one day and it blew me away. As to the sister he is writing to, we don't know who she is, according to the Stanton history book there was an older sister named Mary, but that is all we know about that. I have speculated that Laverne could have been writing this to Lydia, who was going to marry his now deceased brother Tolmus. Perhaps he was addressing her as "sister" because of that. We simply don't know.
AND I'd like to know where this letter was found and who had it and who bought it.
Hey it's my great great grandpa! give it back.
http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/civil-war-1864-letter-soldier-36th-542210828
The letter from the attached link, but do click the link as well and see the actual letter. and some other Civil War stuff.
CIVIL WAR - 1864 LETTER FROM SOLDIER IN 36TH ILLINOIS REGT AT HOME ON FURLOUGH
SOLD FOR: Start Free Trial or Sign In to see what it's worth.
ITEM CATEGORY: Militaria & Weapons
SOURCE:eBay
SOLD DATE: Jul 28, 2014
CHANNEL:Auction House
CIVIL WAR SOLDIER'S LETTER, FROM LAVERN STANTON, CO. H, 36TH REGIMENT ILLINOIS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY - WRITTEN WHILE AT HOME ON FURLOUGH AT CARY STATION, ILLINOIS SHORTLY AFTER RE-ENLISTING AS A VETERAN - GREAT CONTENT - ANXIOUS TO GET BACK TO THE WAR.
3+ pgs. letter, approx. 5" x 8", dated at Cary Station, Illinois, Feb. 24, 1864, from Lavern Stanton, Co. H, 36th Illinois Regiment, to his sister.
Cary Station, in McHenry County, Illinois, is now the town of Cary.
The writer of this letter, Lavern Stanton, was mustered into Co. H., 36th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, on Sept. 23, 1861. He re-enlisted as a Veteran after his 3 years service was up in 1864, and was mustered out as a Corporal on Oct. 8, 1865. Company H was raised from men in McHenry County, Illinois, where Stanton lived.
The 36th Illinois Regt. saw much hard fighting during the Civil War, participating in the battles of Pea Ridge, Perryville, Stone's River, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and in Sherman's march through Georgia, fighting in the Battles of Resaca, Atlanta, Kennesaw Mountain, and the Battles of Franklin, Tennessee and Nashville. The Regiment lost 11 Officers & 193 enlisted men killed in action or died of wounds, and 1 Officer and 127 men died of disease, for a total of 332 fatalities.
This letter has great content, in which Lavern Stanton writes his sister that he has re-enlisted and is home on furlough (soldiers who re-enlisted as veterans in 1864 received furloughs as one of the inducements to reenlist), but writes that he is anxious to return to the war, and its excitement, being rather bored at home. He writes that he re-enlisted because after all the men he has seen killed, and all the privations he has suffered, he wants to see the war through to the end. When Stanton returned to the war, he certainly saw plenty of action, fighting in Sherman's Georgia campaign, the fall of Atlanta, and the horrific Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, in which Hood finally destroyed his own army.
Includes (spelling corrected):
"I thought I would improve the present opportunity by writing you a few lines to let you hear that I am well and enjoying myself very well at present, and hope these will find you as highly favored.
I have reenlisted and am now home on furlough, as you will see by looking at the date of this....I shall return to camp the seventh of next month. I get so lonesome here sometimes that I wish I was back in the field where there is some excitement that helps to keep our spirits and makes men of boys. You may wonder at my reenlisting, but I have seen too much of this accursed rebellion to back out now. I have withstood many trials and privations. I have seen many a brave and good boy fall around me. Anyone would think that such scenes as we have passed through would discourage the army. Every man they see fall, every privation endured, every difficulty they have to surmount, only stimulates them on to greater deeds of daring, and only makes them more determined to see the end of this great civil war which has spread desolation through our once happy and peaceable country....
PS. Write soon and direct to Co. H, 36th Illinois Veteran Volunteers."
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