Letters from War: 1861 | “We ruined all we wished” – A Carbondale officer’s letter from Alexandria

Posted on by Jake Wynn

In a letter to the Carbondale Advance, Captain Alfred Dart described looting relics from the Marshall House in Alexandria, Virginia - site of the death of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth. He also describes the movements of the 25th Pennsylvania and the situation at Alexandria. Read the full letter.

Letters from War: 1861 | A Carbondale soldier describes war at Alexandria and along the Potomac River

Posted on by Jake Wynn

A soldier from Carbondale, PA spent a night in the very hallway where Colonel Elmer Ellsworth had been shot dead days earlier - the floor still stained with his blood. Then he shipped out to fight Confederate artillery on the Potomac River. He wrote home to describe all of it. Read the full letter.