to Elhenan M. Mast

Maitland, James M., 1815-1864 to Elhenan M. Mast

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GLC#
GLC03523.10.026-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
12 August 1862
Author/Creator
Maitland, James M., 1815-1864
Title
to Elhenan M. Mast
Place Written
Kingston, Ohio
Pagination
4 p. : Height: 31.3 cm, Width: 38.6 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Discusses with his brother-in-law the idea of a draft in Kingston. Describes a "war meeting" he recently attended, where a great number of men from their community decided to volunteer for the war. Reports that "I was in town this afternoon and I learned that there would be an effort made to raise two more Companies in the County to prevent a draft..." Also shares "Word came yesterday of quite a Battle being fought at Culpepper C. Hause Va. on Saturday between the forces under General [Nathaniel] Banks in [General John] Pope's Division and Jackson and that our forces kept the field." Notes that he approves of General John Pope and of the war for "if the Rebels will not submit...we should make them feel the effects of war..."

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