Title: Thomas Wasson Letter

Date/Date Range :   1864 August 30

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection consists of a letter written by Union Soldier Thomas Wasson to his sister Mariette Hutchins of Berlin, Michigan. The letter is dated August 30, 1864 and was written from Wasson's camp in Franklin, Tennessee.

Call number: MS-2901

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

The University of Tennessee Special Collections Library purchased this collection on June 9, 2006.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], Thomas Wasson Letter, MS-2901. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of a single folder.

Thomas Wasson was born in about 1843 in Michigan. He enlisted in Company C of the Second Michigan Cavalry Regiment as a Private in 1861. He was promoted to Corporal in February of 1863 and to Sergeant on January 5, 1865. He mustered out in Macon, Georgia, on August 17, 1865. After the war, Wasson returned to Berlin, Michigan. He later moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he married Annie Patton sometime between 1877 and 1883. Wasson died sometime between 1890 and 1900.

In this letter to his sister Mariette Hutchins in Berlin, Michigan, Thomas Wasson writes mostly of camp life and the much warmer temperatures in Tennessee as compared to Michigan. He also mentions a rumor that the Confederate General Wheeler is heading towards Franklin, Tennessee with heavy cavalry by way of Carter Station, Tennessee. He says his regiment is ready, as they are still eight hundred men strong and well armed.

• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Tennessee -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Soldiers -- Michigan -- Correspondence.
• Wheeler, Joseph, 1836-1906.