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Letter From J.S. Lemont To Frank L. Lemont, January 3, 1863, J. S. Lemont Jan 1863

Letter From J.S. Lemont To Frank L. Lemont, January 3, 1863, J. S. Lemont

Paul W. Bean Civil War Papers

Letter from J.S. Lemont to her son Frank L. Lemont, January 3, 1863. In it she imparts rather depressing news from home and about the war especially about death and sickness plaguing their community. She desperately wishes the war would end so her son might come home and be with them but she knows that he has to make those decisions for himself.

Taken from the Paul W. Bean Collection, Box no. 277, f.8


Letter From Achsah And J.S. Lemont To Frank L. Lemont, December 7, 1862, Achsah Lemont, J. S. Lemont Dec 1862

Letter From Achsah And J.S. Lemont To Frank L. Lemont, December 7, 1862, Achsah Lemont, J. S. Lemont

Paul W. Bean Civil War Papers

Letter from Acsah Lemont and J.S. Lemont to Frank L. Lemont, December 7, 1862. The bulk of both entries deals mostly with their new life in Lewiston and the culture there. They also discuss the state of the family and the weather, specifically the health of J.S. Lemont regarding a sore on her arm that as yet had not healed by the time they sent this correspondence.

Taken from the Paul W. Bean Collection, Box no. 277, f.8


Letter From Samuel R. Lemont To Frank L. Lemont, June 10, 1862, Samuel R. Lemont Jun 1862

Letter From Samuel R. Lemont To Frank L. Lemont, June 10, 1862, Samuel R. Lemont

Paul W. Bean Civil War Papers

Letter from Samuel R. Lemont to his son Frank L. Lemont, June 10, 1862. Samuel comments on the state of the war and how close his son is to the conflict without being embroiled in battle, though certainly engagement is at this time unavoidable.

Taken from the Paul W. Bean Collection, Box no. 277, f.8


Letters From J.S. Lemont To Frank L. Lemont (Undated) 1862, J. S. Lemont May 1862

Letters From J.S. Lemont To Frank L. Lemont (Undated) 1862, J. S. Lemont

Paul W. Bean Civil War Papers

Two undated letters from J.S. Lemont to her son Frank L. Lemont. These letters were probably produced in Greene, Maine but there is no envelope or written evidence to solidly confirm this. They are also undated and most likely (as Bean writes in both his transcript and a piece of scrap paper) were written in late May or early June of 1862 based on the events mentioned in the letters. In the first letter she focuses mainly on her feelings about missing him and that the war was over, bearing a very sorrowful burden because of his being gone and …