experience by mary dalton, whose husband, private patrick dalton, six connecticut infantry, died of wounds on 21st, 1864, received six days earlier near jerry's bluff. so dalton was an immigrant ireland. he worked as a mechanic in waterbury connecticut prior to the war, enlisted on february 1864. so he's not in service. a great deal of time now. private dalton's widow, she learned about husband's fate from. a letter she received from a nurse working at a union hospital in city point, virginia. jane boswell more jane boswell more. the widow dalton. they had established this almost pen pal relationship, and jane moore had sent you know, she was the one that sent the very sad news and sent some of his personal effects. and as they exchanged letters back and forth mary dalton lamented to jane boswell more how she was going to pick up the pieces, how she was going raise her two kids. she had one child who was 14 months old. another daughter, a nora, was just a newborn, like eight days old at the time, the father was that he passed away. and this is what mary dalton wrote to jane boswell more. i am a poor and lonely widow with two little children,