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1Author:  Booker, James, 1840-1923Add
 Title:  Letter to Chloe Unity Blair [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Bitnerletters 
 Description: I received your kind and interrestingletter a few days ago, I was verry glad to hear from you all and also to hear from my sweat hearts I wan to see them verry bad indeed tho I dont think thare is eny chance for me to git a furlow, the Col[1] has promised to let the married men got home when he gets in to winterquarters, I hird this morning that our Regiment was going to move to Gainesville this week to fix thar winter quarters, that is about 12 miles from here back to wards Wincher ter rite on the Rail Road[2] I expect to stay here until thay get fixed up, and then thay will move the bag age to the Regiment I like ve to stay here verry well I get extra pay and have a lighter task than I would if I were at the Regiment [3]
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2Author:  Booker, John, 1840-1864Add
 Title:  Letter to Chloe Unity Blair [a machine-readable transcription]  
 Published:  1997 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Bitnerletters 
 Description: I have bin long in tenden write en to you, an to night I will tri an rite you a few lines in order to let you no how we are, I am as well as I could exspet to be under the present sercum stances, Jimey is quite sick & have bin for the last week, I dont no whats the mater with him, he have weekened down as fast for the last week as I ever saw any one, he dont eat any thing scercely a tall, he seems to be restin very well to night he dont complain but very little, tho I am a fread he is a go ing to have a bad spell I wouldent be grug nothen if he wer at home whare he could be tended too beter, [2] Fleman, Grigary [3] is quite sick he has the fe- ver, they are sevrel more of the boys complaining, the most of them has the mumps, Sirous Burnet[4] a member of our com pany dide last week, Mr, Faris [5] expects to start home with Bilia this week, Nathanial Robertson [6] & Neal gilbert [7] left here a few days a go, to go to the harse pittle they expected to get furloughs to go home from thare, Clifton Pinick [8] got here yes tid day, your letter come to hand in due time, I wer glad to here that you wer all well, Jimey told me to tel you that he would have ritten to you before now but he was not able,
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