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April 25, 1861
I will be dissecting the letter from which D. H. Homan’s sister Caroline is writing him while he is away at war. She seems frantically worried about him, which I imagine most family members were at that time. They were always wondering what was happening to their siblings and how they were getting along. Sending letters was the only way to communicate with loved ones back then which caused much anxiety for family members because they could not get immediate responses. As we can see in the letter, families yearned for these letters to come, to see how their boys, or men were doing while they were away.
D. H.’s sister is writing in concern for her brother’s well being. I would imagine from the vernacular she is using and the pride that she has in her surroundings that this family is one of the confederacy. “Of the soldiers, how I wish you was one of them, all in uniform, now all the time, from your ever.� As I read in the “Civil War Civilians�......

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