New England Ancestors of Spaulding/Perry/Gale/Nickersons:Information about Anne Annie Carter
Anne Annie Carter (b. 1840, d. date unknown)
Notes for Anne Annie Carter:
[Spaulding Family Tree.FTW]
Married Grenville Redding had 8 children according to the 1880 census in Medfor d, MA.Her husband Grenville and brother's and Lewis and James served in the C ivil War.
Below is a Civil War Letter written to Annie from her brother James :
West Pembroke
Sep. 13/64
Sister Annie
Asking pardon for my seeming negl ect. I will now try to make amends and first acknowledging the receipt of yours of August 21 proceed to answer your questions. Wills family are all well. You do not seem to keep posted in family affairs of your relations for Wills fami ly consists of four children, on boy and three girls so it seems that little Lo uella, three and a half years old, and Minnie Imogene or something like that, b orn last April are entire strangers to you. Georges youngest child is five yea rs old, himself anf family are well, his wife and little girl are here now on a visitbeen her almost a week.
George and Henry wree here last Sunday. Elis a has not got any more or any babies either. Plummer is still a batchelor and l ikes to be. He is at work blacksmithing with Adonisan Wilder. You say you hope your mother is enjoying herself and I think she is, in the same old way. She cu rses ever one that upholds the war in any way and says Hell is their portion. [ She] sees murder in the countenance of ever one who wears soldiers clothes whe ther they have ever seen a battle or not. She met two soldiers one day that had just enlisted long enough to get their suit of blue and of all the orations th at you have ever heard, how they had changedthey [now] carried the mark of mur der in their countenances. We had a good laugh at her about it and she got exci ted and I never have dared to say anything about the signs of murder in solders faces since.
I think Wellington acted very foolish in taking the course he did. It would have been much better for him to have gone and reported himself like a man, and I have not the least doubt but that he would have been exempted . We have our quota and a surplus in Pembroke so we are clear of the draft.
You speak of your revolver and swords and the old musket that my Grandfather c arried in the old Revolutionary War. It is more than one hundred years old, has been in two wars and is good for another. I think you and E. would fight a gre at battle, rather think you would take Richmond before soon if you was out ther e.
Brother Lewis is home on furlough sick from the effects of a sunstroke. He is some better. Allen Brown is also home on furlough sick from the same caus e. He is getting quite smart again. There is only thirty of their Reg[iment] le ft fit for duty and only two of their Company. They belong to Company B, 31. Some are buried at Spottsylvania, in the Wilderness before Petersburg, and some are in the hospital. I have told you all the news that I think of now for I ha ve been sick and cannot think so fast as I can some times, but think I shall ge t so that I can go to work again by and by.
You must excuse bad writing and all other imperfections for I can do better when I am well. I should be happy to receive a letter from you at any time and will try to answer all as well as I can. Mary has forgotten how to write I expect or has got blind or something e lse as I do not hear anything from her now.
Kisses to Emma and the baby, bu t Emma especially..from James Carter.
More About Anne Annie Carter:
Record Change: January 26, 2004
Children of Anne Annie Carter and Grenville Redding are:
- +Emma G Redding, b. 1862, Maine MA522, d. August 1935, Middleboro MA522.