Name/Title
Civil War Letters of Jed RandallEntry/Object ID
2020.258Scope and Content
A collection of 24 letters written by Jedediah Randall, son of Isaac Randall and Adelia Hannah Miner Randall. The letters begin in the fall of 1862 while Jed is stationed at Camp Russell in Norwich, the captain of the 26th Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers. Later he is stationed from Camp Buckingham on Long Island. His unit steams aboard the ship "Empire City" to Camp Parapet, Louisiana, where the remainder of his letters are written from. The letters include descriptions of the armaments in camp, the homes they had taken over from "secesh", and interactions with the black community left behind. He mentions a number of people by name from Stonington/Groton. The final letter in this is from his mother, written three years after Jed's death, to his sister Lizzie. She describes visiting John and his wife on their plantation in Mississippi.
Included with this folder is a typewritten inventory of the letters included, as well as full typed transcriptions and genealogical information on the Randalls immediately mentioned in these letters.Collection
Manuscript