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121Author:  Bitner Collection: Shoemaker, David R. P.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Henry A. Bitner  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Bitnerletters | Henry Bitner letters | Bitner collection | Letters written to Henry A. Bitner 
 Description: I received a letter from you some time since, which I will now proceed to answer. I should have answered it sooner, but as we were constantly expecting marching orders, I thought I would delay writing until I could tell you our destina= tion.
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122Author:  Bitner Collection: Shoemaker, David R. P.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Henry A. Bitner  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Bitnerletters | Henry Bitner letters | Bitner collection | Letters written to Henry A. Bitner 
 Description: Your note (for it is too short to be called a letter) of the 18th came duly to hand, being forwarded from Winfield.
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123Author:  Bitner Collection: Shoemaker, David R. P.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Henry A. Bitner  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Bitnerletters | Henry Bitner letters | Bitner collection | Letters written to Henry A. Bitner 
 Description: You will doubtless think I have been rather careless in answering your letter but when you hear my excuse I think you will pardon me.
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124Author:  Bitner Collection: Shoemaker, David R. P.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Henry A. Bitner  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Bitnerletters | Henry Bitner letters | Bitner collection | Letters written to Henry A. Bitner 
 Description: Your letter has been at hand for some time and my ex= cuse for not answering sooner is that I have not felt stout enough until now to undertake to write.— Since the time I last wrote you I have been considerably under the weather again.
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125Author:  Bitner Collection: Shoemaker, David R. P.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Henry A. Bitner  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Bitnerletters | Henry Bitner letters | Bitner collection | Letters written to Henry A. Bitner 
 Description: Yours of the 18th ult. is at hand, having been forwarded from Somersville, Va; and I will have to answer it in brief to=night, as we are under marching orders for to=morrow morning at 3.30, and I do not know when I shall have an opportunity of writing again. Our destination is unknown to your humble servant. I do not know of any regiment in the service which has been moved about quite as much as the "Gipsies," as Genl Wise used to call us.— I am glad to hear that you are having good times in old Southampton. Do not imagine that the toils and privations of a soldier's life have made such a misanthrope of me that hearing of those good things you describe would cause "hard thoughts." As far as wishing myself out of the army is concerned I have wished it long ago, but shall only get out honorably—either an honorable discharge or death.
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126Author:  Bitner Collection: Shoemaker, David R. P.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Henry A. Bitner  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Bitnerletters | Henry Bitner letters | Bitner collection | Letters written to Henry A. Bitner 
 Description: Your favor of March 10th was duly received and I wrote an answer and mailed it day=before yesterday, but I have just learned that the mail was captured by the Guerillas between here & Gallatin, so I will have it to do all over again.
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127Author:  Bitner Collection: Shoemaker, David R. P.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Henry A. Bitner  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Bitnerletters | Henry Bitner letters | Bitner collection | Letters written to Henry A. Bitner 
 Description: Your letter of the 6th inst. came to hand in due course of mail, and the reason it was not answered sooner was that I have been sick since the 1st of the present month with what is here called "Acclimating Fever." I am convalescent now, but still quite weak, which must be my excuse for a short letter.
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128Author:  White, James J.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to James Brooks  
 Published:  1998 
 Description: I am compelled from want of pen and ink to write a line in pencil—seizing a moment now I may not have it half hour hence. It is my painful duty to inform you that your son William died today after an illness of several days which appeared to me something like conjestion of the brain. Our brigade has been very much exposed by forced marches through heat and dust, and by being compelled to camp out at night without tents, not even the superior officers being allowed to carry tents from the difficulty of transportation.[1] I suppose it would be most agreeable to the feelings of yourself and your boy's mother that his remains should be taken at once to his home, but we have been drawn up in line of battle this evening[2] and on application to our colonel[3] he assured me that it would be impossible to get permission from Gen. Johnston[4] for any one to leave at this time, and I ascertained that permission had been refused to remove the remains of Lieutenant Patton[5] of the Rockbridge Grays who died this morning. And although I had with considerable difficulty made arrangements for William's transportation before speaking to Col. Preston, I felt forced to abandon it, and have provided for his decent interment in the Episcopal Cemetery here and have directed a head board with his name to be provided so that at some subsequent time his remains may be removed to the bosom of his friends. When I discovered that William was sick I had him taken to the Hospital in Winchester which is in Charge of M. H. Houston, formerly of Rockbridge, late of Wheeling, where every attention possible under the circumstances was provided. I have done the best I could my dear Sir and in communicating with the stricken parents of the most admirable young man, it is but the simplest justice to say that whether as student or soldier, I had nothing to complain of him, but believe in my conscience that he did his duty modestly and conscientiously on every occasion. Your son Andrew has just mentioned that the physician thought the disease of his brother was spinal to the brain.[6] Excuse the unavoidable haste of this letter, for I am hurried in every way imaginable. We are expecting the enemy here at any moment and I believe that we are able to meet them. With assurances of kind regards and sincere sympathy.
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129Author:  Brooks Collection: Brooks, AndrewRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Eleanor Stuart Brooks  
 Published:  1998 
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130Author:  Brooks Collection: Brooks, AndrewRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Mary Susan Brooks  
 Published:  1998 
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131Author:  Brooks Collection: Brooks, AndrewRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to James Brooks  
 Published:  1998 
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132Author:  Brooks Collection: Brooks, WilliamRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Mary Susan Brooks  
 Published:  1998 
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133Author:  Brooks Collection: Brooks, AndrewRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Eleanor Stuart Brooks  
 Published:  1998 
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134Author:  Brooks Collection: Brooks, AndrewRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Eleanor Stuart Brooks  
 Published:  1998 
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135Author:  Brooks Collection: Brooks, MoffettRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Moffett Brooks' aunt  
 Published:  1998 
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136Author:  Brooks Collection: Brooks, CharlesRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Emmet Brooks  
 Published:  1998 
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137Author:  Brooks Collection: Brooks, CharlesRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Eleanor Stuart Brooks  
 Published:  1998 
 Description: I hope you have received the letter sent off on yesterday. When I left home I thought perhaps I would have returned before this; but instead of that we are getting further away and I hope gaining an im portant victory for the Confederacy. Our division of the army was pretty quiet on Saturday and Sunday, but a pretty hard battle occured Sunday evening, to our right, on the York River Railroad about eight miles below Richmond. Gen. Hills division was the principal one engaged. Early this morning all Jackson's troops crossed the Chickihomany and all the army are following up the enemy; for I should have stated that he was again whipped on yesterday. We crossed the battle field on this mor ning! There were many dead and for miles the coun try wa is strewn with knapsacks blankets over- coats and various other articles. Squads of prisoners have been coming in all day and probably five or six hundred have been captured. I saw five about three hundred captured horses and mules this morning. The enemy have crossed a stream fourteen miles below Richmond and blown up the bridge, and heavy cannonading has been going on this evening across the stream. Time is important for them in order to get commisary stores out of the way. If it were not for his Gunboats McClelland might find some dif ficulty in finding a place of rest on Virginia's soil.[1] We havn't seen our wagons for five days and have lived principally on hard bread and havn't been particular about clean sheets or the abundance of our covering. It is now about sundown and I will stop; but probably add somthing more before I mail it.
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138Author:  Brooks Collection: Trible, SchylerRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to James Brooks  
 Published:  1998 
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139Author:  Brooks Collection: Brooks, CharlesRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Emmet Brooks  
 Published:  1998 
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140Author:  Brooks Collection: Brooks, AndrewRequires cookie*
 Title:  Letter to Emmet Brooks  
 Published:  1998 
 Description: Your letter was received yesterday evening. I had mailed one to you in the morning. I have had very little opportunity to make the inquiries you wish. I have been on road detail to day (making corduroy road to Guinney's[2]) and have to go again to morrow, so you see it will be impossible to go to Guinney Station before Monday, if indeed I can go then. I suppose you were led to believe, that large profits could be made on skillets from having heard us speak of having to pay 12 or 15 dollars for one. If you could get that price, it would pay very well, but I do not think you could get it; unless you could get them to the different brigades of the army and sell them there, in which case, I think they would bring 12 dols'. The sutlers [3] of regiments do not buy them at all, so far as I can hear, unless they get orders for them. As for the Sutlers at the Station, I can not speak positively, but think they act in the same way. The day you went up, McKee [4] failed to get one, but got the promise of one soon, if he would leave 10 dols, his name etc, which he would not do. However I am of the opinion that you might sell them there for 8 dollars apiece, in lots of 20, or 30, and it might be as many as 60. I think there would be no risk in you staying a few days, at the Station. But you know there is no accomodation there, and no place to keep them. I got the box that night. It was a treat, I tell you, but you will know that after the sight of it. The coffee is delicious. McKee got his furlough next day and started in about an hour. John D. got his too, and went Monday. I want you to send me a tin plate by him. If you buy skillets, you ought to do it at once while the army is lying quiet. A good many soldiers have been courtmartialed in the brigade. Several were publicly whipped today, and four others . Haven't heard the sentences of the Killians[5].
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