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1Author:  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-Bookerletters 
 Description: I ll take the presant op potunity portunity of answering your kind letter of the 10 inst[2] which came to hand a few days a go you dont no what pleasure it was afforded me to receive your letter an here that you all wer gettin on well. I am sure thare is nothin that affords me more plesure than to recieve a letter from any of my frends or relation at home. but its sildom I get a letter I had bin exspectin a letter from you too or three weeks before I received it I wreaken I will have to excuse you this time far not writen sooner an hope that you will doo beter next time. this will in farm you that my self an Brother are both well an much hopeing this will reach you indue time and find you all injoying the same great Blesing and all all other Blesing that home can afford, we have some sickness in camp now which come from exposure I wreaken. Flem Gregory[3] has bin quite sick for the last four or five days. he has the pnuemonia but is not dangers I dont think, he is something better today, he is all the one that is sick in our company an I hope he will bee soon up Plese excuse bad Writin and Spellin for it is very Badly dun Christmas is close by and I se no chance for me or James to get home. I would like the best in the world for one of us to get home by Christmas if we could and I think one of us was to get a furlough and if the officers would doo rite we would get one. but if they can get g home whenever they pleas they dont care for us, I havent never applide for a furlo but James have bin after one an cant get it started, I beleave if Capt Herndon [4] would start one for him he would get it but he is Just too lazy to write it out, thare is ent a nother company in the regt but wh what gets more furloughs than our company doo and I dont be leave its anything else but because John Herndon wount dont start them, I wreaken the next time we orgune Organize the armey we had better all bee Of ficers or privates one for thare is too much dif farence made in them, Capt Herndon expects to get another fur lough soon after Christmas to go home but if I had it in power he would not get one til the last man in his company get one. We are here now dooen nothen in the wa world not eaven pickett duty and my oppenion the most of the men that dont get fur loughs be fore thare three years are out will go when thay are out thay say so any how, Plese I dont mean to say that I will go home but nearly all the men say they will if they will dont call out all the men that have put in substitute an furlough all the old soldiers that have bin out so long, I am a posed to desertion as much as any boddy can bee but I say put every one on equal foottin for this is a rich mans war an a por mans fight, [5] I be leave thare are some of the men that have but in substitute are dooen a great eal of good but the most of them are doo en more harm than good they are just speculaten on the poor people, an soldiers, I must stop a bout the soldiers for I wreaken you think I am going the other side of my self, I dont think think thare will be much Christmas seen here this time but I hope you all will have a good time, I exspect there will be a weding near you in the Christmas Memory Inman[6] starts home in the morning on furlou to get marred I hope he will ge have a good time, I exspect he is going to take Miss Mary Fullar, I dont no, I will stop James & cousin Thom Joins me in love too you all, you must write soon an give me all the news, no mamare
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