| Title: | Thomas Carse, Jeffersonville, to "Brother John" |
|---|---|
| ID | 581 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | Carse, Thomas/19 |
| Year | 1861 |
| Sender | Carse, Thomas |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | shipping clerk for a railway company |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Jeffersonville, Indiana, USA |
| Destination | Erie, Penn., USA |
| Recipient | Carse, John |
| Recipient Gender | male |
| Relationship | brothers |
| Source | Donated by Mrs. I.J. Beattie, 120 Carsonstown Rd., Lisowen, Saintfield, Ballynahinch, Co. Down, BT24 7JN, N.Ireland |
| Archive | Ulster American Folk Park |
| Doc. No. | 9903182 |
| Date | 26/07/1861 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 19:03:99. |
| Word Count | 453 |
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| Note | |
| Transcript | JEFFERSONVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY, FREIGHT DEPARTMENT, JEFFERSONVILLE, IND., [Indiana?] July 26th 1861 Brother John. Your letter reached me in due time. I returned here on Thursday 18th inst. having taken a trip to Wisconsin, thence to the Upper Mississippi. Davenport, Iowa and via St. Louis home. I visited Capt McBride at Milwaukee, but my stay in that part being short I could not accept his invitation to cross the Lake. He wished to be kindly remembered to you. I also spent three days with Uncle Jimmy on the prairies. All well and busy with a large & abundant harvest. Spent the time galloping on horseback over the prairies, accompanied by Cousin Ellen & Mary Crawford. Farming is conducted there on the most extensive scale. Live stock, Corn & wheat in great abundance. Money however is not in the market, owing to their State Bank failures & swindles. Corn plenty at 8 c [cents?] per Bush [Bushel?]. All well, prospering and wishing to be kindly remembered to you. There is no business being done in St. Louis. Probably 25,000 persons have left the City. Missouri made a strong effort to commit suicide by casting off her loyal shreds & plunging into the secession vortex but she has for the time been saved. Fearing the fact may escape the notice of the historian I may here remark that the Dutch have saved Missouri. I find a very deep and strong secession feeling in St. Louis, but kept harmless by Military interposition. The news of our defeat at Manassas lent fresh courage to the secession cause, and if Jeff Davis was as heartily cheered in St. Louis as in Louisville on that afternoon there must have been lively times. Had it not been that the leader of the secession mob was shot down & killed in Louisville that evg. [evening?] there would have been a dreadful riot, but after that occurrence the Confederate flags were soon handed in. All is yet comparatively quiet here. [Jameson?] is proposing to force the war into Kentucky & may do so next month. I expect this road will soon be placed in charge of & under the protection of the government. The Brigade under Genl [General?] Rousseau is being formed here. Much praise is accorded to the brave 69th New York regiment. Business is slightly on the increase here. My regards to Mr Davenport. Should have written him before now, but am far behind with my correspondence. Am generally very busy during the day and my eyes being much impaired I dare not use them but little by gas-light. Am otherwise quite well, and much recuperated by my trip. Please remember me to my good friend Rod and hope to be remembered by him in the way of a card. All right. Your Brother etc Thos [Thomas?] Carse |
