Manuscript Database
Creator/Title
Fair, Isaac, 1844-1918. Letters, 1861-1865. 41 items.
Call No.
Mss. C F
Content
This collection consists of letters from Private Isaac Fair of the 21st Ohio Infantry to family members in New Rochester, Ohio. Fair was stationed in Louisville, KY, largely at Barracks no. 1, and served as a guard. Fair chiefly focuses on his desire to receive letters from family members, to return to his home, and the lack of local news to report; however, he also mentions guarding Confederate prisoners, trips to the hospital (in one letter mentioning Clay Hotel), his own health, serving as a guard at headquarters and the wood yard, his pay, the 1864 presidential election, the 1865 flood of the Ohio River, and the cost and availability of material goods such as coats and blankets.