Connecticut at WarThe 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 JourneyMy mother spent two years 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.