| | 1 | Author: | Booker, James, 1840-1923 | Requires cookie* | | | 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 write you a few lines this morning which will inform you that my Self and John is yet in the land of the
living and injoying a reasonable portion of
health, and much hopeing, th when
this comes to hand it may find you and all injoying the same great blessing, I
have no news of interest to write, we have
bin marching for the last four days, we got here yesterday evening, I understand there is plenty of yankees near hear, tho I havent seen eny of them, we met the citizens moving out yesterday as we came in, thay said the yankees was going to bshell the town yesterday, tho
thay have not commenced shelling yet, I would not be surprised to hear the canon at eny
time, I think our men is waiting for the
yankees to open the ball, I hope thay will leave while our Genals Generals
is waiting for them to commence fighting, I
think thare is verry
strong force here on both sides, if we have a
battle here I expect it will be a
verry hard one, I got a
letter from sister Mary[2] last friday dated 17th inst[3]
if you see her be fore
cliff Penic
[4] starts tel her not to
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