The Origin of Bluemont Central College
This final chapter covers the final phase of the College building’s construction—though it was not yet completely finished when the letters terminate. I titled the chapter “Jackasses and Rascals” as these were the words Washington Marlatt used to describe the various suppliers and builders he had been forced to work with during the previous year.
Batavia, Illinois
Saving history one letter at a time.
Saving history one letter at a time
by Washington Marlatt, 1848
Saving History One Letter at a Time
by Charles A. Frey
Co. B, 91st New York Infantry
39th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
19th Century Images
Letters from the 23rd Illinois Infantry, the 111th Pennsylvania Infantry, the 64th New York Infantry, and the 14th Pennsylvania Cavalry
1st New Jersey Light Artillery
36th Massachusetts Volunteers
Co. B, 37th Illinois Volunteers
the pocket memorandum of Alexander C. Taggart
Co. I, 32nd New York Volunteers
Co. F, 62nd Pennsylvania Volunteers
Co. A, 124th New York Infantry & Co. B, 16th New York Cavalry
Co. H, 77th Illinois Volunteers
Co. D, 103rd Ohio Volunteers
Civil War Letters of Monroe McCollister, Co. B, 6th OVC
Civil War Letters of Nelson Statler, 211th PA
The Origin of Bluemont Central College
14th Connecticut drummer boy's war-time correspondence with his mother
Lt. Commander in the US Navy during the Civil War
Fighting with the Irish Brigade during the Peninsula Campaign
Letters of Dory & Morty Longwood, 7th Indiana
The Civil War Letters of Henry Clay Long, 11th Maine Infantry
The Civil War Letters of Jacob Bauer, 16th Connecticut, & his wife Emily
Saving History One Letter at a Time
3rd Massachusetts Heavy Artillery, Co. I
The Diary of George W. Shue
A Virtual Archive of Civil War Likenesses collected by Dave Morin
Co. K, 7th Rhode Island Infantry
The Bancroft Collection of Civil War Letters
Company D, 37th Massachusetts Infantry
A Virtual Archive of his Letters, 1858-1869
Co. H, 13th New Hampshire Volunteers
Building Bluemont 