At 7 PM on Wednesday, November 8, Steve Rolfe will present a special program at the Monroe County History Center. The program will highlight a collection of letters written by Frank Fee during the Civil War and immediately afterward. Through these letters, one can almost picture the hardships at the front as well as the misery realized at home by those left behind. On June 6, 1841, Frank was born in Monroe County near Bloomington. At the age of 20, as brother fought against brother in a vicious war pitting the North against the South, Frank enlisted. He served as a sergeant and later as a lieutenant in the 31st Indiana Infantry, one of the most active regiments in the Civil War. Four years later, in 1866, Frank was mustered out. He went on to marry his sweetheart, Margaret Wylie, in 1868, and moved to Greencastle where he had a successful career in real estate, insurance and law. At the age of 63, on February 19, 1905, Frank died. Among those things he left behind was a collection of letters he had written during the war years and detailing his personal war experience. More than a century later those letters were discovered in the possession of a private individual in Franklin, Indiana. Although this person made copies of the letters available to those with an interest, he sold the original letters through an auction house in Ohio in 2011 for more than $3,500. Steve Rolfe is secretary and newsletter editor of the Monroe County Civil War Roundtable. He is intimately familiar with those letters and his presentation is sure to be interesting. For more information, please contact the History Center at 812-355-5588.