Drifting to an Unknown Future: The Civil War Letters of James E. Northup and Samuel W. Northup

Based upon the Delbridge-Northup Collection at the Center for Western Studies, this is an edition of the Civil War correspondence of two brothers from Lodi, WI, James E. and Samuel W. Northup. The Northup brothers served in the second Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, James from 1861 until 1864, and Samuel from 1862 until his death in 1863 of typhoid fever. A third brother, Hiram, also served in the Civil War, in the Forty-second Wisconsin Infantry Regiment. The letters are a rich source of inform…