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- GLC#
- GLC03523.10.090-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 9 August 1863
- Author/Creator
- Maitland, James M., 1815-1864
- Title
- to Joseph M. Maitland
- Place Written
- Kingston, Ohio
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 31 cm, Width: 18.7 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Tells his son that his uncle, Elhanan Mast, is planning on running for "Representative or Clerk of the Court it is not determined which it is the intention of nominating a full Democratic ticket in the County of the War Democrats..." Praises Mast's capabilities for political office, noting that he enlisted in the service the day after the April 1861 attack on Fort Sumter that signalled the beginning og the Civil War. Reports that a local man, Joseph Pullens, "was ran out of Urbana by some half a dozen and stoned for halloeing for Vallandigham." Also notes that the Purtlebaugh home was broken into due to the charged political atmosphere.
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