Dearest Carrie
Civil War Letters Home
by
Phyllis Huckins Haughton
This is a compilation of letters
written during the Civil War by a family whose lives were disrupted and
changed forever. Most of the letters are from a lonely unhappy engineer
on a steamer in the Atlantic, who traveled from port to port, and wrote
often to his wife Carrie. The others are to her sister and other
family members, and several are to the sailor from home. The Libby
Prison letters were written by Andrew Jackson Hopkins and his wife while
he was a prisoner. After Carrie Tipton's death, they adopted Willie.
The letters were given to the author by the only descendent of this family
when he was in his nineties, with the suggestions that they be published.
After reading them, I agreed. Little Willie in these letters was
William Tipton Hopkins, a pioneer of Newport News, Virginia, and its longtime
postmaster.
Phyllis Huckins Haughton grew
up in Warwick County, now Newport News, Virginia. She graduated from
Morrison High School, and received her nurses training at Riverside Hospital
School of Nursing. She was employed for more than 25 years at Doctors
Clinic in Newport News, Virginia.
In 1942 she married Caxton
Haughton and they have three children and six grandchildren. She
is a free-lance writer, and a member of the Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the
Virginia Writers Club. She is also an amateur genealogist, teaches
Sunday School at Harmony Grove Baptist Church and writes a column for the
Southside Sentinel in Urbanna, Virginia.
After retirement, she and her husband moved
to Middlesex County, Virginia, where they now reside.
ISBN: 1-55618-153-1
Phyllis Huckins Haughton, perfect bound, hardback with bookjacket.
+ 4.5% for Virginia residents.
published by Brunswick Publishing Company
Send payment to:
Phyllis Haughton
HCR 61, Box 650
Topping, Virginia 23169