My Dear Sara

About The Editors

5 Generations of Military

This is my third non-fiction work. All are written because the stories MUST be told. Navy SEAL to Army Doctor to Community Physician has given me stories to share. But this book is written by my mother and me by transcribing over 200 civil war letters from our civil war relative to his wife while assigned to General Grant's headquarters 1861-1865 while assigned to the 7th Connecticut Infantry Regiment.

This is a history that has never been told so completely. It is also a love story between Ned Barden and Sarah Maria Jones my great-great-grandparents. Laugh and cry with them.

www.swordsandseals.com << all three books.

Connecticut at War

The civil war split a young nation in pieces. Brother against brother. Ned enlisted with the 7th Connecticut Infantry Regiment Volunteers at 26 years old and left his hometown of Canaan, Conn. and his girl Sara behind. All the letters he sent her were dated and numbered and saved by Sara. They tell the story of a corporal in Union Headquarters watching and praying that the war will not kill him.

Join The Journey

My mother spent two year carefully transcribing the letters of Edwin Janes Barden her great-grandfather on her mother's side. She completed three years and then they passed to me to complete following her sudden death at 88. Luckily I had saved her work on my computer so I was able to pick up where she left off. It was a labor of necessity until I began listening to the stories unfolding as the war progressed from season to miserable season in tents and heat and storms. And then he marries Sara in 1864 and returns to the fight. Sara starts numbering his letters with No. 1 again as their life together unfolds.