| | 63 | Author: | Douglass, William | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Liberian Letters: William Douglass to Dr. James H. Minor 1865
August 15  | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters | | | | Description: | I seat myself once more to write you to in-
form you that I am still with my family in the land among the
living, for which I am more than thankful to God. I can truly say
that the Lord has been good to us since we have been in this land in
sparing our lives. My daughter instead of the little girl I brought
with me is now taller than her mother. She has grown much indeed
and with her mother is enjoying good health. It has been now about 4
years since I have heard from you and I must say I am over axious to hear from you once more— more so since I
heard the war is about over. It must indeed have been dreadful
to be in a land as America has been for the last four years—
covered with all the horrors of war. But I hope it will not be long
ere peace shall again be de clared and when the sound of the battle
shall no more be heard. In your last letter you requested me when I
write to inform you how I was
am getting along. At present I am
doing pretty well. I am paying the mass of my attention to the
growing of cane of which I have about 8 acres. I made this year 8000 pounds of sugar which was
said to be the best made around here. It is true that it is a new
country, and we have many hardships to un-
dergo, but by God's blessings and an effort on one's side he
can get along. Here I have realized the meaning of the words: Sitting
under one's
own vine and fig tree and none
daring to molest or make afraid. The only thing that grieves me, is
that I cannot enjoy it with my children. were
they with me I should be perfectly satisfied. To be so far separated
from them is indeed an afflic- tion hard
to bear. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 64 | Author: | Douglass, William | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Liberian Letters: William Douglass to a Friend 1866 January 29 | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters | | | | Description: | I take this opportunity of writing these few lines trusting they may
find you well, and family, as I am quite
well, I have been very anxious of hearing from
you I has written you four letters during the
war and could hear nothing which made me very anxious to hear from
you, I could not tell whether you was dead or
alive. Please to let one hear from you as early as possible and also
let me your condition and your country's. I would like to come over
but and had proposed doing so,
but at this time I am very busy in sugar making & farming and
cannot well leave, Last year I made 8000 pounds
of sugar, and I expect to make a great deal more with the Small
machinery I have this year, I Sold last year's for $60 thousand. 1 I am also acting as agent for the Am. Col.
Society for this last emigra tion that
came from Lynchburg here
Dec. 14th 1865, which keeps me very busy
I therefore am oblige to give up the
idea of coming as I proposed this march, but the pastor of our Church
Albert Woodson is coming over in march and I expect him to call and
See you and all the friends in that district for me.
please answer this as Soon
as you can
to this as I may know all about you
and if you are alive and all respecting you as I am longing to hear a
word from an old friend as you. Also inform me something about my
Children I could hear nothing from them
neither during the war though I has often written them, but I chance
to hear mention of them in a letter to George
Walker from Mrs Reeves that two was dead
and one she never mention her name at all
Julia, which made me very unhappy. In
1861 when Dr. Hall was over
here last I gave him $20 — in gold and a receipt for the Same was inclosed to you in a letter. requesting you to draw it from him and give it to my
children but the war broke out before he could arrive to America and I
have heard nothing about it Since. I and family
is doing well here and are well, And I feel very proud that myself and
family may be an example for those that
may hereafter come to this country of Industry.
I must close for the present untill I hear
from
you, Make our love and regards
to your family and all inquiring friends | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 67 | Author: | Booker, James, 1840-1923 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Letter to Chloe Unity Blair, fragment, n.d. [a machine-readable
transcription] | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Bookerletters | | | | Description: | James Reynolds sends his best respects to you,
I was verry sorry to hear that my sweetheart
was about to leave me, to hunt for another one in such a time as
this,
tho if she sees eny body
that she likes better than she does me she can have my concent to take him, and I will go another way, | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 68 | Author: | Booker, James, 1840-1923, and Blair, A. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Letter to Chloe Unity Blair with inclusion from A. Blair [a
machine-readable transcription] | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Bookerletters | | | | Description: | I have no doubt
But what you think by my long silence that I have
forgoten
you
tho
Ill have you to know thatsuchis not thecase I have bin waiting to find out whare we
had to be stationed we are at
winchester,
now I dont know how long
weel have to stay here, I
am in hopes that we will stay here for some time,
we have elegant water and a plenty of it, and a
plenty of good
pervision so far, and a fine chance of
beutyful young Ladies, and the kind est that I ever saw in my life, and the most
beautiful Country that I ever saw thay have
fine Crops over here, and not
mutch
likely hood of a fight the
yankeys
has gone back to
martainsburg
and it is thought if we get them we will have to go after
them,
a young man that belong to our
Regement got shot yesterday eavening
accedently, and died this eavening the young man that shot him is a
bout to greve him self to deth about it
Thay are both from
martinburg
I dont know neither of them, | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 69 | Author: | Booker, James, 1840-1923 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Letter to Chloe Unity Blair | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Bookerletters | | | | Description: | I received your kind letter last eavning which
gave me great releaf I had not
hird from home
in nearly a month I had concluded
that you all had forgoten us intirely I told the boys if my relation wanted to hear from
me thay would have to write to me for I had
writen three letters to thare one, and if thay
would not write to me, I
w
I would not write to them,
tho I will excuse you for this time if you will
not do so eny more, | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 71 | 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-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] | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 74 | Author: | Booker, John, 1840-1864 | 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-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, | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 76 | 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
afew lines to let you know whare
we are, we are on the out
post
the yankees are shooting at our men constantly
tho it is very cildom
thay hit eny of them, thay havent
shot but one man in our Regiment he was shot thursday, the he was shot in chin, his
name was T
Tucker[1]
be long
ing to Capt
Carters
Company, thay was a battle faught
here last weorsday eavening
thay
a good maney killed on boath sides
tho a great maney more on the
enimys
side than thay was on ours
we was not in the ingagement
theyankees sent a flag of truse
this eavning to berry thar dead,
ifthay we have a general ingage ment
here I think it will settle the
war for the best of the two
armys is here, the yankee prisners
that our men have taken say that
thay have got to whip or die here, and I
thay will have to die at least I hope so, | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 77 | Author: | Booker, John, 1840-1864 | 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 receaved your letter of the sixth sence I have bin at this place
an
wer glad to here from you all, I would have ritten
to you be fore now but we have bin posted on the out post
an I have ent had the
chance this leaves mi
self &
Jimey
well an much hopeen
these few lines
ma find you in joying the
same blesing. We have a good eal of sickness here, at least a good em
meny that are
un able for service
We have had a very hard time sence we left
Orange C H, we havent got any tents, nor I
dont
reaken we will have any whyle
we sta
here, we have to sta in
entrenchments every other day an night, the
entrench ments
we
sta in are in a quarter of a mile of
the yankees, they are constant shoot ing
at us an
throw en
bums over us, we
have ent got but one of our men wounded sence we
have bin here, but some are get en
woun ded every day an
sum
cild. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 78 | Author: | Booker, James, 1840-1923, and Booker, John, 1840-1864 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Letters to Chloe Unity Blair [a machine-readable transcription] | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Bookerletters | | | | Description: | after long neglect I in
deavor to answer your kind letter which came to hand in due time I hope you will
excuse me for not writing sooner, as I was verry
unwell for several days after I got your letter, I have bin waiting sence I got well to to learn something new to write,
tho I be leav
thare is no news in circulation now atal, I hear but very little said about the
yankees now, tho we are still
preparing for them close by here, we have to go
about four miles to work on the breast works
every other day, I cant
beleave that thay will come
bac here again soon, tho thare is no teling what the
fools may do, | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 79 | 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: | After long silance I write you afew lines which will inform you that we are boath
well, I have had very good health since I left
Richmond
John has bin a little sick
several times tho he is very well at this time, hard marching agrees with me finely
and I tel you I have had enough of that to
make me fat, if I only cud of goten
enough to eat, the rations has bin very scanty a large portion of the time sence we have bin marching, we
have not marched much for the last ten days and it looks like thay are trying to feed us to death
now, thay are giving us eny
quantity of fresh beef and fresh hog meat, I
would like very much to gave you a history of our
travels, tho I have not got the patiants nor time to write
it, I hope we will all be permited to return to our homes in peace soon, and then I
can tel you of our ups and downs, it is thaught in camp that we
will have peace soon and, I trust
we may
tho I dont know the public
appin ion I have not seen a paper in a
month,
all of our
conscripts are sick, thay was only four sent
to our company, John Hundley
[2] and Whit and
Memry Inman[3] and Buc Pruett
[4]
our old members has kept up finely concid ering the exposeure, we have to waid every stream
we come to that has no bridge across
it, we have waided the
potomac
three time we are not aloud time to take off our clothing, to croos creeks & rivers, we have to go in just
as we are, and then march with our wet clothing on,
Bag Pritchett &
Dac
are both sick and at the hospital,
Dasey Price[5] has
bin sick fror some time, he has
bin staying at
private house close by
Winches ter,
I
all of our sick & wounded are order ed from Winchester to
Staunton,
I think we will go bac to Richmond again soon at least I hope so, for I
have not hird a word from home since I left
Richmond,
you must write to me soon and direct your letters to Winchester, we are onley five miles
from Winchester
now, | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 80 | 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 afew lines this morning to let you
know that we are
boath well and much hope ing
that this may find you all enjoying the same good
blesing, I have no news of intrust to write
we have had a long rest since we have
bin here, tho I expect we will
have to leave
here to day,
we have orders to be ready to march at amoments
warning, I do know
not know which way we will go,
I received a letter from & sister
yesterday dated the 8 of Oct & one
from sister the other day dated the 5 of Oct,
[2] I was sorry to hear of sickness being in
the neighbour hood,
we have some little sickness in camp
tho not as much at present as has bin
we have too sick men in our company
Bage Pritchett & John
Hundley[3]
thay are not sick much tho
thay are not able for sentry, I have enjoyed very good health since we left Richmond. I think I can stand the service now if
thay will gave me
enough to eat, we have goten a plenty since we have bin here
accept salt, same
we have not goten more than half enough salt
I am glad that we are going to leave
this
place. for the people through here are all
mostly quakers, and I had almost aslive
be with the yankees as to be with the
quakers,
the
yankees will sell us eny
thing cheap for the specia
tho
thay
will not take our notes, the quakers will
sell any thing
thay
have got when the spirit moves
them,
tho we cant catch them rite half our time, I will
hush about the
yankees and quakers, and
tel you what a interesting meeting has bin
going on in Camp, it has bin going on for near a month,
nearly every night thay has bin a good meney
converts since the meeting commenced I
think it is time for them to turn after being blesed so plainley as they have
bin in the past battles, I
think Mr
Penic
[4] had changed very much, be
fore he was taken sick. he said that he
was deter min to do better than he had bin
do ing
I dont think I ever saw a plainer change in
eny person than there was in him, | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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