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Captain Joseph Willis Young Personal Letters Index

Captain Joseph Willis Young Personal Letters Index Monroe County

Database Description

source:
Meredith--
Attached is a Monroe County database titled "Index to the Personal Letters of Capt. Joseph Willis Young. 97th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers." It has two fields. Please make it available to IGS members and nonmembers alike.
A preface to the index is noted below. Let me know if you have any questions or the db does not transmit in its entirety.
Randi Richardson
Index to Letters Home from Joseph W. Young, a Civil War Soldier--
Monroe County is fortunate to have the personal letters and diaries of several local soldiers who fought in the Civil War. One such letter collection is that of Joseph Willis Young of Co. C, 97th Reg't, Indiana
Volunteers. It was transcribed by Oscar F. Curtis in 1962, and hard copies
of the transcription are available in a 50-page, bound booklet at the Monroe County History Center in Bloomington, Indiana.
Joseph was born in Pennsylvania on November 9, 1824, and migrated to southcentral Indiana sometime during or before 1846. He was a veteran of the Mexican War before he enlisted as a soldier in the Civil War in 1862.
Throughout the war he wrote letters home to his wife, Anna Elizabeth
(Holder) Young in Monroe County. Many of his letters were closed with the words "Your affection husband until death." . His last letter was penned on June 14, 1864, and he died a few days later on June 27, 1864, when his body was severed in two by a cannon ball during the course of battle at Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia.
The index noted below includes every name in the booklet: those from the letters, a family biography compiled by Curtis and all members of Young's unit.

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List of People in Captain Joseph Willis Young Personal Letters Index

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Items 1 - 40 of 185