Manuscript Database
Creator/Title
Welker, Eliza J., b. 1824. Letter, 14 May 1862. ALS. 4 pgs.
Call No.
Mss. C W
Content
Four-page letter on Civil War union stationery from Eliza Welker in Belmont Furnace, Bullitt County, Kentucky to her family in Ohio. Welker requests information about her siblings and provides information about her family. She writes that four of her sons are serving in the war including Gary, an orderly sergeant in Co. D. of the 53rd Ohio regiment. She writes that we are for the union down here and hope you are all for the union." She notes that there were eight to ten thousand soldiers camped "all around in sight of us... all last summer and winter" and that "there has been several battles fought within hearing of us."