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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC02174.04 |
| From Archive Folder | Collection of Hillary Shifflet, C company, 1st regiment, Ohio, volunteers |
| Title | Hilary Shifflet to Fanny Shifflet encouraging his daughter to go to school at every chance |
| Date | 19 August 1862 |
| Author | Shifflet, Hillary (1823-1863) |
| Recipient | Shifflet, Fanny |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Shifflet encourages his daughter to "be a good girl and mind your mother" and to "go to school ever chance you git." He asks her to look after the other children, Patsy, Mariah, and Jonney and promises to send money so that Fanny may have new clothes. He heard "not five minets ago that thar is was one hundred and eighty thousand [Confederates] a coming rite on us so we will hav to fall back to nashville in short order." He expects "some hot times soon" but says that he "shant fight much moore my self." |
| Subjects | Soldier's Letter Civil War Military History Union Forces Union Soldier's Letter Women's History Children and Family Education Finance Confederate States of America Battle |
| People | Shifflet, Hillory (1823-1863) Shifflet, Jemima Cox (fl. 1824-1880) |
| Place written | Camp Boiling Fork, Franklin County, Tennessee |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Education |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Additional Information | Shifflet served as Private in the Ohio 1st Vols., Company C. The collection includes one letter from his father to Shifflet. By the end of the correspondence, he complains of war weariness, especially of Lincoln's interference with slavery. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
| Civil War: Recipient Relationship | Daughter |
| Civil War: Theater of War | Main Western Theater |
| Civil War: Unit | Company C, 1st Ohio Vols |