| | 1 | Author: | Brand, William F. | Add | | | Title: | William F. Brand to Kate Armentrout, June 23, 1861  | | | | Published: | 2002 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-BrandLetterscivilwar | | | | Description: | I recieved your kind and much welcomed letter a fiew days since and was glad to hear from you. I should
have answered it sooner put we have been mooving from plase to plase for the last two weeks & hardly ever neer a Post office & to day I am Twenty five miles
from one put I have concluded to write at any rate hoping
that I might have a chance of sending it
before long. My health is very good and I hope theese
uninteresting lines may find you enjoying the same blessing. Cous. Jas. V. is well and harty. Your friend J.P. Lightner was hear
yesterday eavning he belongs to the Rockbridge Collige boys it is a fine company he said when he got
to Strawsburg it was reported that we ware fighting in Winchester & when he got thare
he hurd that
we ware fighting in Martinsburg & he pushed on
and when he got thare he was told we ware fighting at our encampment it seemes
that it does some persons good to lie just to keep up the excitement put it will not be long I hope untill we shall soundly whip the deamons of
the North for the bloodthirsty villions
has invaded our soil at different points & taken
property & surched the houses for money. I
cannot write any thing to day that will interrest
you it being Sunday & to see no change in the soldiers if one did not
keep the account of the days he would not know when Sunday comes. Some of the
men are blaying cards, oh that men would fear the
lord more & searve him better. Sam Fitch has to
go on duty this morning for an our or two & he
looks mad I reckon he thinks he is violating the Sabbath put it is not his fault. I have had good luck I have not had to go on
duty on Sunday yet. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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