Marie Ester Brandt diary entry, Monday, April 15, 1861

Location

Indiana Historical Society (Indianapolis, Ind.)

Background

Brandt was a Quaker Sabbath schoolteacher in Hanover, Jefferson County, Ind., and daughter of a farmer and general store owner in Hanover.

Contents

Entries describing daily life, social activities, and Civil War experiences in Hanover and Madison, Ind., and at Hanover College.

“Monday, 15th April [1861] The dispatches today are that the President has formally declared the country to be in a state of war & calls for 75,000 troops. Of all wars a civil war is the saddes [sic], may the Lord overrule the affairs of Nation, and bring good out of evil”

 

Note: Forms part of the Historical Society's Marie Ester Brandt diaries, 1849-1869.

(See the NUCMC catalog record)

 

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