Overall Family Civil War Letters

Updated 8/17/2007
Updated links and family info

This collection of letters has been passed down through the Overall family. They were saved by Jane Overall who lived in Gallia County, Ohio (Chambersburg) during the 1860's. Most were written by her husband, Isaac Overall, during his service in the Union Army during the Civil War. Isaac served in the 36^th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company I, between early 1862 until his death in June of 1863. The letters portray the life of a soldier during the war, and even include the letters that inform Jane of her husband's death. There are several others written to Jane by various relatives which illustrate the strong family ties and the hardships endured by the people of that era.

You may find it interesting and helpful to read the Family Information section too. It contains background information on the people mentioned in these letters. For genealogists, there are several family names represented here. I am researching the people of these letters, and currently have a little information, but if you are doing research on any of the names, please use these letters as you like, and please help me with any missing information.

I have scanned all of the letters and have included screen-resolution views of many in the The Letters section.

Other Interesting Sites

Ohio in the Civil War - An excellent page for Civil War History of Ohio

36th Ohio Regiment - Specific summary history of the 36th OVI

Ohio Historical Society - An ever-growing list of research material

Letters of the Civil War - A nice site with transcriptions of many Civil War letters

Ken Jones' Eclectic Projects Page - A good Civil War history page

Gallia County Ohio Genealogy - Starting point for Gallia County research

36th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Homepage - Researching and documenting the history of the 36th

The Civil War, Unstilled Voices at Amazon.com - This will take you to Amazon.com where you can see a book, The Civil War - Unstilled Voices by Chuck Lawless. This book has published a few of my letters in an interesting interactive format. Here is the cover.

For correspondence, email me at goverall@hotmail.com

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