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- GLC#
- GLC03523.52.66-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 22 September 1864
- Author/Creator
- Wirt, John, fl. 1864
- Title
- to Bill Kessler
- Place Written
- Delphi, Indiana
- Pagination
- 4 p. : envelope Height: 24.6 cm, Width: 39 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Writes to his cousin. Provides direction to California. Explains he cannot join him because of his job. Complains about his new stepmother. Writes, "thare never was a bigger fool than my father when he married that girl whenever thare is any work to be done she plays off sick she dont care about anything but dress…please never call her my mother again I wont own her…" Discusses the "Hundred day boys" who just arrived home.
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