butler family

Historical photographs and text describe the Weeping Time in which 436 slaves were sold on a racetrack in Savannah, Georgia, in 1859.

Presents a collection of sixty-five letters written from 1863 to 1865 by the Ovid Butler family of Indianapolis to Scot Butler who served with the thirty-third Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and describes economic and political conditions in their community along with social and religious happenings.