Correspondence of Brothers Job & Washington Sowers of the 78th Ohio Volunteer Infantry ~Civil War letters ~Brush Creek Township Muskingum Co

Title: Correspondence of the Brothers Job and Washington Sowers, of the 78th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Author: [Compiled by Vickie Kaye Sowers Noce]

Description: Comb-bound with plain card covers, being a xerox copy of one of the copies held at the State Library of Ohio. 131 pages, each printed on one side. Includes an illustration from an old photograph of the Sowers family, with seven members in front of their Brush Creek home, circa 1900. 11 x 8.5 inches. No institutional copies located on OCLC.

Transcribed letters covering the period 1856-1882, most being written during the Civil War years of 1861-1863 while the brothers were serving with the 78th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The opening war letter, written by Job, describes the Battle of Shiloh (Apr 6-7, 1862). The material collected here includes bibliographical references and was compiled by Kaye Noce, the great-great granddaughter of Washington Spencer Sowers.

Includes about ten letters written in the decade preceding the Civil War. The war letters were composed at Pittsburgh Landing (Shiloh) TN; Black River Bridge (Pea Ridge?); Corinth MS; Bolivar TN; Columbus KY; Water Valley MS; Davis' Mills MS; Lafayette TN; Memphis TN; Lake Providence LA; ''Vistas Plantation''; Milliken's Bend LA; Rock Springs [Rocky Springs?] MS; Midway Hospital at Boll's [?] Plantation MS; near Vicksburg MS, and Camp Chase OH. The remaining dozen-or-so post-discharge/post-war letters include correspondence to and from the brothers and some other miscellaneous family letters.

The brothers, Washington Spencer Sowers (1836-1915) and Job[e] Patterson Sowers (1840/41-?), grew up in Brush Creek Township in Muskingum County, Ohio; the family had previously resided at Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Their father was Daniel Sowers (1804-1853).

Binding: Plastic Comb Ring Binding
Condition: Near Fine

Year: 2004

Keywords: Civil War, soldiers, letters, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 78th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Brush Creek Township, Muskingum County, Ohio, Civil War letters,