Affectionately yours
Subtitle: the Civil War home front letters of the Ovid Butler family
By: edited by Barbara Butler Davis ; with a foreword by Alan T. Nolan.
Contributors: Davis, Barbara Butler.; Butler, Scot, 1844-1931.
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Indianapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Butler, Ovid, 1801-1881 -- Correspondence.; Butler, Elizabeth Anne, 1818-1878 -- Correspondence.; Butler, Scot, 1844-1931 -- Correspondence.; Butler family -- Correspondence.; Butler family.; Indiana -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.; Indianapolis (Ind.) -- Biography.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.; Indianapolis (Ind.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Genres: Correspondence.; Personal narratives.; Biography.
Description: "Affectionately yours: the Civil War home-front letters of the Ovid Butler family includes transcripts of sixty-five holograph letters written from 1863 to 1865 by members of the Ovid Butler family of Indianapolis, strong supporters of abolition, to their son Scot ... As Davis notes in the book, the letters help to 'illuminate such issues as social class, religion, gender roles, humor, economic conditions, and political alignments on the home front'"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-194) and index.
Mostly letters written from 1863 to 1865 by Butler family members to Scot Butler while he served in the 33rd Indiana Infantry and the U.S. Signal Corps.