The Blackwell Letters
Continued

"...tho it is uncertain where we will go when we start.  I never make any calculations..."
- September 29, 1863 letter (original, page 1, page 2) from Benjamin M. Blackwell to Mathew R. Blackwell

"We want to have Brother William's (William Blackwell, killed at Chancelorsville) funeral preached this winter some time and we want you to come home...Farewell, farewell, farewell my brother."
- October 25, 1863 letter (original, page 1, page 2) from Sarah E. Blackwell and mother to Benjamin M. Blackwell

"Mathew R. Blackwell, I am sorry to inform you that your brother Ben was killed yesterday evening.  I fixed a board to put to his grave..."
- May 6, 1864 letter from John S. Holley to Mathew R. Blackwell