Patrick, I have been to the Andersonville museum and it is beautifully done.
It is well worth a side trip to visit if you are ever in the area.
----- Original Message -----
From: "PATRICK MURRAY" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 8:45 AM
Subject: Re: An "i" for an "I"?
>I know what you mean. I have transcribed Civil War letters and found
> the same thing. Another thing I have found that the letters were written
> by different persons to the same family. Apparently the soldier had one
> of his buddies write letters for him. So you end up with different
> styles of hand writing. One batch of letters were written by a Civil
> War soldier to his family back in IN. He died at Andersonville prison.
> I donated the letters to the Andersonville Museum.
>
> Patrick Murray
> Des Moines, IA
>
> "NO TRUTH WITHOUT PROOF"
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jack Fallin" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 1:33 AM
> Subject: An "i" for an "I"?
>
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I figure there are quite a few subscribers here who have struggled
>> with transcribing old handwritten letters. I've just emerged from
>> doing transcriptions for more than 70 Civil War era letters. A major
>> part of the correspondence occurred among three brothers, their
>> families and themselves. All three followed what appears to be the
>> unusual convention of avoiding all punctuation and all inital
>> capitalization (they seemed to like some letters as capitals -- those
>> would be capitalized wherever they were found). In addition to not
>> capitalizing letters at the beginning of sentences they would render
>> the personal pronoun "I" as a capital just once, at it's first use --
>> after that it was always written as "i." I'm wondering if anyone
>> else has come across this pattern.
>>
>> Jack Fallin
>> Walnut Creek, CA
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