Benton Barracks
Saint Louis January 20th 1862
My dear brother
I received your letter on Sunday the nineteenth. We are yet with little signs of moving, but orders are sudden and unexpected. It is impossible to say one day where we may be next. A good many are still sick of one complaint or another, consequences of measles and so forth. we have only about five hundred well able for duty. This weather is damp sleet and snowy so that moving in camp is bad and so dull and monotonous. I shall enclose a view of the entrance through the fairgrounds into our camp cantonment?.
I shall send also by mail my ….ecture. It will go as safe and cheap than by express. It will go in the same mail and if not than to you had better enquire for it. My kindest wishes to sisters and the rest of my family, and best regards to all friends. From your truly affectionate brother
Joseph Saberton
Soldiers would write letters to their families and friends while away at war. Talking about simple things like the weather, what effects the war has had on them, and how war brings so much uncertainty the war created. To show their families what they where going through and hope that they will make it out alive and see them again.
Saint Louis January 20th 1862
My dear brother
I received your letter on Sunday the nineteenth. We are yet with little signs of moving, but orders are sudden and unexpected. It is impossible to say one day where we may be next. A good many are still sick of one complaint or another, consequences of measles and so forth. we have only about five hundred well able for duty. This weather is damp sleet and snowy so that moving in camp is bad and so dull and monotonous. I shall enclose a view of the entrance through the fairgrounds into our camp cantonment?.
I shall send also by mail my ….ecture. It will go as safe and cheap than by express. It will go in the same mail and if not than to you had better enquire for it. My kindest wishes to sisters and the rest of my family, and best regards to all friends. From your truly affectionate brother
Joseph Saberton
Soldiers would write letters to their families and friends while away at war. Talking about simple things like the weather, what effects the war has had on them, and how war brings so much uncertainty the war created. To show their families what they where going through and hope that they will make it out alive and see them again.
This art work painted by Eyre Crowe shows the selling and purchasing of slaves. It shows how families of slaves were separated and auctioned off to large plantation owners in the deep south. in the center of this you can see a women in blue in a the wagon handing a child over to the man standing on the side of the wagon. she and several others have been auctioned of to the man in the lower right corner. Separating the mother and her child and immoral act that was consider a command practice in the south at the time.