ABSTRACT
The Jane Trattles letters, continued from Volume 3, capture some of the wartime anxiety as experienced by English immigrants. The letter of 15 October 1862 includes the usual features of immigrant letters – including the promise to send her sister in England some hair from her two daughters ‘so that you can see what kind of hair grows on heads in America’. But it also notes that the war ‘is a Ruin to the Country … terrible fighting’, the coming draft, and that ‘Brother Daniel is in the War, he Volunteerd in the 19 Ridgment from Michigan … we had a Letter from him last weeak’. She also reports that ‘President Lincon has declared the Slaves all free’.
