I would greatly appreciate it if anyone who has letters home from their relatives who served as blacksmiths during the American War Between the States would be willing to share a copy of their letters with me and potentially the rest of the world. Ideally it would be wonderful to collect letters home from your hardworking blacksmithing relatives, and help preserve their role and contribution to our country's history.

Thank you in advance for your kind assistance,
Dave Einhorn

i have some relatives down in Virginia that have been doing quite a lot of genealogy of late and i know there is at least one blacksmith that served down there i will fire off a e-mail and see if they can come up with anything