Letter from Varnum to his Son, June 19, 1864

Letter from Varnum to his Son, June 19, 1864

Letters; Smallpox; Death

In this letter to Francis, Varnum mentions receiving letters from him as well as other members of the family. Varnum mentions that Henry and Harriet have been exposed to smallpox and have been vaccinated. The two are expected home in the middle of July. A couple of nights ago, William Turner died of a stroke and the funeral will be held soon. Varnum mentions John Morgan's raid into Kentucky and calls it "a sacrifice to the negligence of our officers" when mentioning the deaths.

Noyes, Varnum

Loose, The College of Wooster, Special Collections, Noyes Collection

Unpublished

1864-06-09

Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Special Collections Grant

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Morgan's Ohio Raid, 1863

Received June 19
Guilford June 9. 1864
Dear Son
Night before last we
received from you a letter, photograph
and picture of your buildings. They
were all very acceptable. We often
hear from the company by others
who write home but rather pre-
fer to hear from you directly.
I suppose before this you have re-
ceived a letter which we sent by
Styles Hosmer, also a can of butter
and one of apple butter.
June 15. When I had written the few
lines above. I learned that Edward
had just dispatched a letter to you
and thought I would delay finish-
ing it a few days. We received
a newspaper from you night before
last and conclude you are well.
We have received letters lately from
Harriet and Martha. They are well
Henry and Harriet had been

exposed to the small pox and had
been vaccinated, I suppose, for the
kine pox. What might be the affect
of mingling the two together I do
not know. I have some fears that
it might not do very well. Mar-
tha we expect home the 4th of July
and Henry and Harriet about the
middle of July. I rather think that
Harriet would enjoy herself about as
well at home as in camp. A mourn
ful event took place in our village
night before last. It was the death
of William Turner. He went to bed
as usual and apparently in about
his usual health. About ten o clock
his wife heard him groan and
endeavoured to awaken him but
could not. She called to her neigh-
bours several of whom came in
in a short time but he was
dead. It is a very severe and un
expected stroke to his family.
The funeral is to take palce

tomorrow at 2.O.clock P.M. The
reason for keeping him so long
is to give his friends in Penn.
an opportunity of attending the
funeral if they wish. I can hard
ly realize that Mr Turner is dead
Last sabbath evening he lighted our
church for an evening meeting. The
pulpit lamps not giving a very
good light, he took them out and
filled them after I was in the
desk, filled them for the last time.
He will be missed very much in our
church. He has sometimes taken
part in our prayer meetings since
you left. He was a good deal em-
barrassed by I told he would
soon overcome it by perseverance.
We learn from Martha's letter that
Charles Dix is sick, but have not
said any thing to his parents
about it supposing that if he
wished to have them know it he
would send them word.

You may perhaps have heard that
John Morgan has made another raid
into Kentucky. A Cynthiance he cap-
tured some twelve or fifteen hundred
of the national guards from this
state. He captured I believe about the
whole of the 171 regiment and part of
the 168. They made considerable resist
ance before they surrendered and sev-
eral were killed and wounded. This is
a sacrifice to the negligence of our of-
ficers in taking care of the peniten-
tiary, I notice some of our Ohio nation
al guard regiments are going to the front.
As to home matters wE are all well.
Edward and I are farming as well
as we can. Cold weather has kept
back vegetation and we have lately
had several light frosts. We have sheered
our sheep and sold our wool at 75 cts
per pound. I have heard since that ^it is
selling a little higher. We had 347 Pounds.
Our singing choir is pretty small, often
only H. Dowd on the tenour and Hamsher
and Wm [William] Hulbert on the base. Jacob Bell
has sold his blacksmith shop and I suppose
will leave the place. I hope you will take
good care of your health as you can, and let
us hear from you often. Your affectionate
father Varnum Noyes.



6月19日收到
吉尔福德 1864 年 6 月 9 日
亲爱的儿子
前天晚上我们
收到你的来信，照片
和你的建筑物的图片。他们
都非常可以接受。我们经常
听取其他人的公司意见
他们写信回家，但更愿意直接收到您的来信。
我想在此之前你收到了一封我们寄来的信
Styles Hosmer，也是一罐黄油
和一种苹果酱。
6 月 15 日。当我写完那几个
上面的行。我得知爱德华
刚刚给你寄了一封信
并认为我会推迟几天完成它。我们收到了
前一天晚上你寄来的一份报纸
最后并得出结论，你很好。
我们最近收到了来自
哈丽特和玛莎。他们很好
亨利和哈丽特已经

暴露于天花并有
接种过疫苗，我想，因为
牛痘。可能有什么影响
将两者混合在一起
不知道。我有一些担心
它可能做得不太好。玛莎，我们期待 7 月 4 日回家
亨利和哈丽特关于
七月中旬。我宁愿认为
哈丽特会喜欢自己
在家里和在营地一样好。我们村发生了一件令人悲伤的事
前天晚上。这是死亡
威廉·特纳。他去睡觉了
像往常一样，显然在大约
他平时的健康。十点左右
他的妻子听到他的呻吟声
努力唤醒他，但
不能。她打电话给她的邻居，其中几个人进来了
在很短的时间内，但他
死的。这是一个非常严重和不
预计他的家人会中风。
葬礼即将举行

明天下午 2 点这
留他这么久的原因
是送给他在宾大的朋友。
有机会参加
如果他们愿意，可以举行葬礼。我可以努力
意识到特纳先生已经死了
上个安息日晚上，他点亮了我们的
晚上聚会的教堂。这
讲台灯不给力
好光，他把它们拿出来
在我进入后填满它们
桌子，最后一次填满它们。
我们会非常想念他
教会。他有时采取
参加我们的祷告会
你离开了。他很尴尬，因为我告诉过他会
很快就靠毅力克服了。
我们从玛莎的信中得知
查尔斯·迪克斯病了，但还没有
对父母说了什么
假设如果他
希望让他们知道他
会给他们发消息。

你可能听说过
约翰摩根再次突袭
进入肯塔基。他俘虏了一千二、一千五百名辛西安斯
国民警卫队从此
状态。他捕获了我相信关于
整个171团和部分
168。他们在投降前进行了相当大的抵抗，有几人被打死打伤。这是
牺牲了我们的官员在照顾监狱方面的疏忽，我注意到我们俄亥俄州的一些国家
所有警卫团都在前线。
至于家庭事务，我们都很好。
爱德华和我也在种地
我们可以。寒冷的天气一直保持
回植被，我们最近
有几次轻微的霜冻。我们已经剪了
我们的羊和我们的羊毛以 75 美分的价格出售
每磅。从那以后我就听说了
卖的高一点。我们有 347 磅。
我们的合唱团很小，经常
只有 H. Dowd 在男高音和 Hamsher
和威廉赫伯特在基地。雅各布·贝尔
已经卖掉了他的铁匠铺，我想
会离开这个地方。我希望你能接受
尽可能照顾好自己的健康，让
我们经常收到您的来信。你的深情
父亲瓦努姆·诺伊斯。

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