July 15, 2025 By November 8,1864, Eben G. Babcock was a seasoned soldier, camped in the Shenandoah Valley. He had gotten into and out of a few scrapes; in a previous letter, missing from our collection but referred to in the next letter, he related that he had been caught sleeping on his post.Despite suffering […]
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Jun 1, 2025 In Part 1 of this story, I wrote that I was thrilled to be able to read, touch, and hold some of the letters of Civil War soldier Eben Granville Babcock III (1843-1917). As I begin Part 2, I wish to reiterate that this is meant as a human story, not
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May 1, 2025 Recently, I was thrilled to view a collection of letters from a Civil War soldier, written in faded pencil on scraps of stained paper. That soldier was Medfield’s Eben Granville Babcock, writing to his mother Mary on Pleasant Street. The letters were generously donated to the Medfield Historical Society in 2015 by
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