Letter Home (Middleton,Ohio to Rebecca Hansen)


Dear Rebecca Hansen,
                    I missed you, my brother, and my amazing three sons. I missed the farm and the long days of work. Wishing that I'm able to come home. The surrender of Ft. Sumter, President Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to form an army and I joined to help out. It was long till the first shot or cannon was fired and many batteries of artillery were passing through the air. Unfortunately, many of the soldiers are still healing from Chloroform, a liquid drug used to put people to sleep. I hope the blacks still stays in the south and doesn't expand, while the Whites are still superior. I'm writing this in the boat going towards the next quest we're given. I wish you the most of luck and I will be fine.

                                                                                                        Loved, Robert Hansen

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