Saturday, March 15, 2014

CIVIL WAR LETTER HOME PELHAM TENNESSEE

I'm trying something new since this is a short letter home.

And the original.


2 comments:

Buck said...

The originals are in excellent shape... perfect, actually. Luther had a nice hand.

HMS Defiant said...

Ah, you should see the ones he wrote in pencil. Those are tough to decipher. Fortunately, a good scanner and then image intensification/magnification work wonders on bringing up the faintest letters. The hard part is the lone capitals on names that are not words. Those can take awhile to puzzle out. I think its amazing how close his writing is to Edwardian script that I use to write them out.