Tag: letter

• Thanksgiving Letter (B K Jones, Dec 2d 1860, #3) (Guest Post)

  

  1860: Burleigh sends news about his family’s Thanksgiving activities…

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  11 May, 2013

  1860s, Contoocook Village, goose, guest artist, guns, Jones Brothers’ Civil War Letters, NH history, SOURCE=HopkintonHistoricalSociety, turkey

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• Thanksgiving Letter (B K Jones, Dec 2d 1860, #2) (Guest Post)

  

  1860: Burleigh relates a classic NH Thanksgiving… (Drawn by guest artist Dan Haines of Hopkinton)

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  13 April, 2013

  1860s, chicken, Contoocook Village, guest artist, guns, Jones Brothers’ Civil War Letters, NH history, SOURCE=HopkintonHistoricalSociety

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• Mayflowers (B K Jones, April 25th 1858) (Guest Post)

  

  1858: Burleigh K. Jones has some fun times planned for May Day, but life around the capital still seems unbearably dull… (Drawn by guest artist Althea Barton)

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  1 April, 2013

  1850s, Concord, Contoocook Village, guest artist, hiking, Jones Brothers’ Civil War Letters, NH culture, NH history, SOURCE=HopkintonHistoricalSociety

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• I am Pedling Buttons (B K Jones, March 6th 1858) (Guest Post)

  

  1858: Be careful what you wish for! Burleigh K. Jones just can’t get rid of those buttons he had his brother send him from Boston! (Drawn by guest artist Heather Mitchell) …

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  27 March, 2013

  1850s, Contoocook Village, guest artist, Jones Brothers’ Civil War Letters, NH history, SOURCE=HopkintonHistoricalSociety

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• They Have Discovered a Cave! (B K Jones, April 1st 1855) (Guest Post)

  

  1855: Contoocook’s Burleigh K. Jones shares news from home (and demonstrates his sense of humor) in an exciting letter to his brother Sullivan. (Drawn by guest artist Andrew Z.) …

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  24 March, 2013

  1850s, Contoocook Village, guest artist, Jones Brothers’ Civil War Letters, NH history, SOURCE=HopkintonHistoricalSociety

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• I Will Pledge Myself (Jones, June 13th 1862, #3)

  

  1862: The Union armies stand at the gates of Richmond, and to Burleigh, the war seems all but won. He couldn’t be more wrong …

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  22 March, 2013

  1860s, 2nd NH, Civil War Letters & Diaries, Jones Brothers’ Civil War Letters, NH history, SOURCE=HopkintonHistoricalSociety

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• Company B Fall in for Dinner (Jones, June 13th 1862, #2)

  

  1862: Burleigh K. Jones takes a break from letter writing to observe dinnertime; then he continues with some ghastly details from the Fair Oaks battlefield:

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  20 March, 2013

  1860s, 2nd NH, Civil War Letters & Diaries, graves & memorials, horses, Jones Brothers’ Civil War Letters, NH history, SOURCE=HopkintonHistoricalSociety

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• Dear Brother (Jones, June 13th 1862)

  

  Contoocook’s Burleigh K. Jones writes to his brother following the Battle of Seven Pines …

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  18 March, 2013

  1860s, 2nd NH, Civil War, Contoocook Village, Hopkinton, Jones Brothers’ Civil War Letters, SOURCE=HopkintonHistoricalSociety

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• We Go Without Mittens Very Well (Rogers, Nov. 20 1862, #2)

  

  Rogers recounts recent experiences & dispenses domestic advice for the home front …

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  20 November, 2012

  1860s, Civil War, Civil War Letters of Joseph Rogers, pigs, SOURCE=WHS+Warren, Warner, weather

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• Dear Sister (Rogers, Nov. 20 1862, #1)

  

  In this early Civil War letter, Warner native Joseph S. Rogers stares across the waters at a looming battle…

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  19 November, 2012

  11th NH, 1860s, Civil War, Civil War Letters of Joseph Rogers, Reference Links, SOURCE=WHS+Warren, Warner

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• Hurricane Letter from Henniker (1938) (Part 1)

  

  A Henniker schoolteacher wrote this letter to her mother during the Hurricane of ’38:

  Marek

  29 October, 2012

  1930s, Contoocook, Henniker, weather

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• “I tell you what it is, George” (First Bull Run)

  

  From a letter by Private Charles Putnam (2nd NH Volunteers) to his brother George in Claremont…

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  16 September, 2012

  1860s, 2nd NH, Civil War, SOURCE=Pride & al

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