Daniel Carlisle, 7 Dec 1862

Dear Wife Sunday Evening Buchanan Dec 7 1862.

We recivd yours of DecNov 30 on the 4th the Bundle you

Sent by the man has not come I have just been to see

I think he was not honest the reason Fannie had a little

more clothing saved was she got home in time to help

Take her own out some of it She + Mary were Nere when the

Fire first started and the door Locked they were helping

t_rs grain get her things out the unwise plan of leaving

A house alone which you know I have always been

opposed to we see now the impropiety, + danger the reason

the drawers were not taken out Strangers to the house

as they were knew not where to look for it Tameson

Having directed the cleaning the house + put everything

in a new place + upside down + put the Bureau in to

 the Butrey where no one would think Looking for it

Had it Been in the front room where I have Always

wanted it would have been saved a matter of fine I have

always thought of but my Family have always disregarded my

advice in these matters there was nothing nothing taken out

of the butrey unless the spoons were Stolen no remains

Have as yet Been found of them I forgot to mention in

my Last that the letter with the 2$ in money came

all right it being Southern money it was difficult

geting rid of it I made out to At last I would not

_ind on take any, none of it taitt not go here.

Orville Started night before last to Ganoiss Porter County Ia

For the sale of the history of the rebellion + tok with

Him some maps to pay his expences

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I received a letter last night from R B Ashley

with 10$ in it to pay the freight on a Box of things they

Have started us containing some Bedding some clothing

some dishes table cutlery + perhaps articles he did not

mention May Heavens Blessings rest uppon such friends

Mr Havens over the river gave some flour + potatoes last

week + and said when he butchered he would doe more

It has Been hinted that the folks in the river Bend are

making two quilts for us But the most novel Case

is that of Poor A C Day After giving a stack

of hay to me + Russell he Rusel went to see him to know

where to go to Draw We Were going to gather to get it

that day he told Russell he Had to take Some Cattle

on a debt + could not Let it go poor man he ought

to have a contribution + I hope he may never be Burned out

he would Dispair + die he has just Bought 100 + 20 $ dollars

worth of Furs for his wife + two daughters What doe We

live for Julia has given Some Small Articles since I wrote

she + Henry + Tameson ___  Are one A long visit now with

Harisons team to Erolls + Lowells Pats + cbrills Mary is at

Camens yet + Fannie At Deweys have not Been

Home Tamerson says Mary must come + help her She

Can get no time to Sow there is about 3 inches of snow

But no Sleighing ground froze hard Weather

cold and Blustering the machanics that were Burned out

have All got shops + going on again with Business

_ times Are hard every thing in the hands of merchants

__ are high Salt 4$ pr Barrell J R was here yesterday

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We are to have a series of meetings commencing on the 17th

To hold four evenings At the Bretherin House. Brothers Stro__

and Livermore are expected the arrangements are all made.

A Society has Been organized Trustees are Baker Boswell

Stott Epley Woodbridge + Carlisle N Y Boswell Chairman

H Epley Treasurer + Clerk The Masons Are to have a great

Ball at union hall third storey of new block on Chrismass

The Procedes of Which are to furnish new traps + trinkets

of gain for their Loss the Poor up have it Always with

you But they are Sometimes forgotten by theere Neighbors

The aristocracy must Be assited + held up Post has hired

out his Stand to a man from york state Mr Mason +

Mr Hinman have both moved out of Mrs Harrisons house

She is alone Wants us to go in to it I would have done

So had it Been empty soon enough I think I had better

Stay here this Winter her place is much handy en to Water

She Wants you to come home very much We are

sitting none comfortably fixed But have to keep freeing

the draft for filling the new regiments is to be made.

on the Bo__ it is expected this town has furnished

Her Quota governor Blair made A great Speech

in union Hall on the evening of oct 18 - one thousand

People Were in the Hall + five hundred out side

that could not get in He is reelected in Spite of all

opperition and I Am glad the Whole State ticket

Republican three cheers for _ Mich

D Carlisle

I wish there was more detail about the history Orville Carlisle was taking to Porter County, Indiana and what were the maps he took with him?

R B Ashley = Roscoe Boyd Ashley of Rochester, NY, nephew of Daniel Carlisle. With his father he ran a hotel, the Clinton House, and surely had extra items to donate to the family.

A C Day = Andrew C Day. On the 1860 census of Buchanan Township Mr Day had real estate valued at 15,000 and personal

Julia Ann Carr's third husband was Henry Hall. She also had a daughter named Tamerson Glover, from her 1st marriage to Orville Glover.

For more see: Carlisle Family Letters

Carlisle, Daniel. (Buchanan, MI) to “Dear Wife”

[Hannah Glover Carlisle]. Letter. 7 December 1862. Digital Images 1-7.

Privately held by Charlotte Grabowski, Orlando, FL. 2012

[Carlisle Family, Box #1, Correspondence, 1862,

Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan. 2008.]