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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC07460.024 |
| From Archive Folder | Collection of Lysander Wheeler |
| Title | Lysander Wheeler to his sister Martha about brotherhood between soldiers and cases of rebel sabotage |
| Date | 17 April 1863 |
| Author | Wheeler, Lysander (fl. 1837-1903) |
| Recipient | Spohn, Martha |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Writes that he would like to hire Welly (his nephew Wellington Spohn) at five cents a day to help with the harvest. Reports that rebels are camped nearby and that he is anxious to get rid of them. Discusses the feeling of brotherhood amongst the soldiers even though some regiments, such as the 79th Ohio are not necessarily liked. Writes that while commanding a post, a negro informed them that some rebels were cutting down telegraph poles. As a result, General Paine sent out six companies from the 70th Indiana and all of the mounted regimental scouts. Discusses another rebel raid in Kentucky where canons were shot at a train and ruined the engine. The rebels also set fire to the wooden cars of the train and paroled the train engineer. Closes the letter by writing that although he misses his family, he refuses to get homesick because thousands of soldiers have died of homesickness alone, including some from his own company. |
| Subjects | Civil War Military History Union Soldier's Letter Union Forces Soldier's Letter Children and Family Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Confederate States of America Telegraph Wartime Pillaging and Destruction Contrabands African American History Union General Railroad Death |
| People | Wheeler, Lysander (fl. 1837-1903) Spohn, Martha (fl. 1862-1863) |
| Place written | Gallatin, Tennessee |
| Theme | The American Civil War; African Americans |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Additional Information | Lysander Wheeler, a farmer from Sycamore, Illinois, enlisted in the Union Army on August 7, 1862 as a private. He was mustered into Company C of the 105th Illinois infantry and later promoted to sergeant. Wheeler was mustered out on June 7, 1865. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
| Civil War: Recipient Relationship | Sister |
| Civil War: Theater of War | Main Western Theater |
| Civil War: Unit | 105th Illinois Infantry, C company |