MILITARY – CIVIL WAR – LETTER FROM SARAH JANE (SAYWARD) WARREN TO
HUSBAND JOHN WARREN, SOLDIER IN UNION ARMY

Letter from Sarah Jane (Sayward) Warren to John  Warren, Husband,
while he was serving in the Union Army of the Civil War.  Transcribed
as written.

This original letter is in the possession of Mrs. Frances (Richmond)
Cooper, great-granddaughter of John and Sarah (Sarah Jane Sayward)
Warren.  It is very fragile, and in some places difficult to read.
Per family history, John and Sarah Jane Warren were living in
Wisconsin at the time John enlisted in the Union Army, and Sarah Jane
took their three children to Maine, her birth place, to wait out the
war and John's return.  Per the recorded memories of a now-deceased
granddaughter of John and Sarah Jane, the Saywards were from Maine and
ran an exclusive girls' finishing school.  They were from England
originally.  This granddaughter (Martha Hess Wank) reported that Sarah
Jane had left Maine in a covered wagon to go to Wisconsin to marry a
young man.  When she got there, she found he had died, and later she
married John Warren. John Warren died June 28, 1885 at Cadiz,
Wisconsin and Sarah Jane died August 30, 1894 at Monroe, Wisconsin.  

Contributed by Mrs. Frances (Richmond) Cooper (great-granddaughter of
John and Sarah Jane (Sawyard) Warren) and  submitted by Cynthia L.
Midgett Shaffer (great-great-granddaughter), 2001.

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Shopleigh April 1 1865 (envelope bears a Maine postmark)

Dear Husband

Your kind letter of the 25 reached me this evening and I need not tell
you that it was wellcom.  I heard of the battle of the 29th and I did
not see much peace till I got your letter.  I feel truly thankfull
that your life is spared and I hope God will still be mercifull to you
in sparing you.  We are all well at this time.  I was weighed today
and weighed 154 so you see I am not very poor. CW weighed 46 JH 40 ME
96 (CW was son Charles, JH was son Henry and ME was daughter Edith).

You wanted to know if I would be ready to go home by the 4 of July yes
and before that if you are ready.  We are all glad to hear so good
news from the war and do hope it will soon end.

It rained here yesterday and snowed to finish with but the new snow is
all gone and nearly all of the old.  I am much obliged for that ____
that ____ came safe. I don't know as I have ever written anyting about
getting it.  Brother Cyrus came here a few days ago.  He is still
living in Imswich (?) but owns a place here which he rents.  I can
write to you in good spirits after getting your letter.  I should have
written, if I had not got yours.  It is a great pleasure to write to
and receive letters rom you.  How many have fallen and how many more
are to fall ere this cruel rebelion shall close but slavery is dead
never to revise again and the south are nearly used up although some
have said that slavery would never come to an end, but such croakers
have to keep still now. We have one of the best ministers here.  He is
not afraid to stand up for the union.  He says he should rather be the
son of a negro than the son of a traitor.  How would Mr. Bush like
such preaching as that.

I have been to prayer meeting this evening part of the folks were in
bed when I came home and the rest have gone since, but I will try and
finish this so to take it to the office when I go to meeting in the
morning.  I will write to your father and RL before long.  Is it James
Mc____ that is dead?  I think Jane must feel vary bad any one that has
no friends in the army dont know how to sympathize with those that
have.

Keep up good spirits and trust in God as I don't think of anything
more to write I will close by wishing you good night.  Yours in love
Sarah J Warren

Write often as you can.


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