| | 1 | Author: | Brand Civil War Collection: Brand, William Francis | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Brand Civil War Collection: Letter from William Francis Brand to
Amanda Catherine Armentrout, 1863 May 23  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-BrandLetterscivilwar | | | | Description: | As I have a good opportunity of sending you
a few lines, I accept it
with pleasure & hasten to inform you of my whearabouts & health, My
health is very good but my greatgreat toe will I am afraid give me
some trouble before it gets well I had to
have part of mythe bone removed And I hope when it gets well this
time that I may have no more trouble with it, I
had inten
ded comming down this eavin
ng am not able on account
of my presant lamneſs, I hope it may not be long
before I get able to go about. for I get so lonesome
Well very
propberably I have the blues
some times & you may well
immagin thare cause”
“I want to see my bonnie wee Kate”,
“Well you must sympathise
with me in my afflictios Well Kate you ought to have been in town on the 20th
to have
witneſst Dr. Hay opperrate on my toe. It seemed quite
amu
sing to Burk & Dr
Hay. When I began to awake, one of the men waiting
on me had on a yankee uniform I hollowed to him hault you yankee
Burk told me to spit on him
& I tried my best & some
other childleſs things I was gilty of for a few
minutes after I woke up I was very sorry I
did not get to see Cous
Lis but I would a great deal rather see my Kate for tis then I can enjoy my self, oh Kate I konow you would laughſ at me hop
ping on crutches Well I must bring this
uninterresting epstal to a
close I would be most hap
py to hear from you at any
time I will come down as soon as I can bare to ride a horse I ask
an interest in all your
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