Julia Cutler's Civil War Journal: Places

Western Virginia, 1861

Marietta & Cincinnati Rail Road

Morgan's Raid in Ohio, July 1863

Warren Township, 1875

View of Constitution from Atlas of Washington County, Ohio, D. J. Lake, Philadelphia: Titus, Simmons & Titus,1875. The Old Stone House, in which the Cutler family lived from 1809 until 1872, is near the left edge of the drawing, just below the midpoint.

Warren Township, 1875--Business Directory

The Old Stone House, a painting by Sala Bosworth

ABOUT THE JOURNAL

On April 12, 1861, Julia P. Cutler was living in Constitution, Ohio, six miles from Marietta. An avid reader, Julia Cutler was also an avid letter writer--and she kept journals. When news of the fall of Fort Sumter reached the Old Stone House in Ohio on April 13, 1861, Julia Cutler began a journal. She wrote nearly every day throughout the duration of the Civil War. Her entries record news about the politics and battles of the war, but also include family and domestic concerns. Julia Cutler's journals were preserved by Mary Frances Dawes Beach, the daughter of Rufus R. Dawes. Mary Dawes Beach typed the entries for the first two years of the Civil War and those typescripts were passed down in the family. The original journals were donated to the Special Collections Library of Marietta College.

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