James Dupray was a soldier in the Iowa Volunteers, 12th Regiment. Four of the letters are written to his sister Ruth (Dupray) Morgan in Dubuque County, Iowa from family members William and James S. Because the same type, paper, and ink were used for all presses, it is difficult to determine which documents were prepared by which printing presses. Civil War letters written home to Iowa between Octoand finished April 15, 1863. Tips for using free-text search A free-text search allows you to search for words and phrases found in records in AAD. Review Tips for using combined free-text and fielded search.
#Civil war file cards for the letter d portable#
The documents that follow are examples of the sorts of forms, orders, letters, and newspapers that were likely printed in the field using portable presses. You can do a combination free-text and fielded search from this page by entering a search term in the Search this File box and values and selected codes in the fielded search area of the page. Therefore, some units may have printed field documents for only a short period of time. In his letter, Alton directs mail to be sent to him in Company D, but the roster of. Equipment was left behind on occasion, and unit printers were injured or killed. Carroll County, Virginia, Civil War soldiers records, 1861-1865. Printing presses, no matter how portable, were sometimes abandoned in battle situations. Larger printing presses and additional supplies of type, paper, and ink would have been available in those situations, and were often used to refill unit supplies.Ĭopying documents by hand was still an option for the units without presses and for less formal correspondence like letters, or single communiqués.
Records also indicate that field units commonly printed documents in printing shops encountered in towns along the way. Maps and currency were also generally printed in larger printing shops. Many standard documents and forms, preprinted by the thousands, were prepared in larger printing shops in Richmond, Washington, D.C., or other cities. The kinds of documents printed “in the field” were those needed on a temporary basis and those requiring quick and extensive distribution.
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