| Following is a Civil War
letter of my gr. gr. grandfather Asbury Sutton, of Iowaville--written to
his mother Rhoda Young Barker Sutton, who ran a boarding house in
Iowaville at the time. The letter is written shortly before he was
wounded in the Battle of Iuka. In the letter he mentions his step
brother Elias E. Barker, brother Perry Sutton, and a friend Van Johnson.
Rhoda Sutton had four sons who served from Van Buren Co. in the Civil
War Peter Barker (36th), Elias Barker and Asbury Sutton (5th), and Perry
(45th).
Mark Hogan |
