Back on June 21st, I had an entry on 291 letters that Wade Ewing of Grand Haven, Michigan, had donated to the Michigan Archives that his great grandfather Henry Mckendree Ewing had written during the Civil War.
OCTOBER 26, 1864-- Ewing was afraid his brother-in-law had been killed or captured by Confederates at Petersburg.
"This fight was a perfect failure to our army.. you will learn al the particulars of the moovement by the papers better than I can write. O I do wish the crewel war was over. I do not think we will ever whip the Rebs by fighting untill they are entirely extengwished and there will many union oldier fall before that is don for there is lots of johneys left yet and they can and do fight as Savage as the yank keys does."
The letters are valued at $30,000 and Wade Ewing was worried that some future relative might sell them to a private collector.
State archivist Mark Harvey said, "It's a credit to him that in an era of Antique Road Show and eBay, his concern was not monetary..."
Every letter will be scanned and put on the internet.
A Real Slice of the War Up Close and Personal. --Old B-Runner
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