Identifier: wisconsinwomenin00hurn (find matches)
Title: Wisconsin women in the War between the States
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Hurn, Ethel Alice
Subjects: Women--Wisconsin Wisconsin--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--War work
Publisher: (Madison) Wisconsin History Commission
Contributing Library: Rutgers University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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nything, turn away to theirquarters with sad, dejected looks, and now and then a murmurof Ill get one next time. * * * if their friends could onlysee these desponding faces, they would not be so negligent inanswering the poor soger boys letter. 59 It is evident that this writer did not think that thepeople at home were writing enough letters, but other factsprove that this conclusion was not correct. Women wholived during that time, speak of the great number of let-ters they wrote to the boys at the front; moreover, manyletters did not reach their proper destination because in-correctly addressed. Even if letters were properly ad-dressed they were often delayed in transmission. Moreover,the women were as anxious to hear from the soldiers as the B» Trumbull, pp. 133-139; Corres. Wis. Volunteers, 1, p. 66©. (94) s! OH !-• O M o e ~v-(no P -i H. r.5 o-O ■ q ^ w -V c en Q o) c 2t3 2 -i M OK) 3 &S p CD CD Cf O ^ ^? is 1-! M wBP
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LETTERS FOR THE FRONT latter were to hear from home, and this incentive in itselfwas enough to keep up an active exchange. Letters for Stra/ngers It is well known that Wisconsin women wrote not only totheir own friends and relatives, but also to men whom theyhad never seen. We girls felt it a patriotic duty not toleave any of the boys unsolaced by cheery and newsy let-ters, states one of the women. Often into comfort bagswould be slipped a note that evoked a reply. One Wisconsingirl had a long and pleasant correspondence of this kind,until the young man revealed himself and proposed mar-riage; then she stopped. After the war one of our mosthonored matrons, then only a maiden in her teens, founda handsome young soldier at the door ready to completethe acquaintance begun in this way, and Beloit was thescene of a new home. Sometimes young girls T\Tote letters to men who receivednone, having heard of their disappointment from friendsin the army. Occasionally, thoughtful women wrote anumbe

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