| | 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 seat my self, this beautiful
sabath morning for purpose of responding to your
kind favors of the 23 & 28 of Sept. which I received several
days ago, and would have answered them amidiately though I expected to have gon
home soon, and thought that I would answer them in purson as I am such a sorry hand to write , Though it was my s
mis fortune to be in
formed that I could not go yet a while, I took it for my share
and contented my self as usial, I think a soldier aught to be
satisfied to do as well as I hav
bindoing for the last few days. have a plenty of some thing good
to eat and a good apitite to eat it. that is good enough for
any body in war times. though
you know it is not natrial for human
being to be satisfied
the better thay get. the better
thay want. and the more thay
get. the more thaywant, And thare is non of them that knows how to appritiate a blesing until after thay are deprived of it, I
know this by experience. for when I was
permited to injoy the
comforts of good home and kind frends on everry side of me.
I was not satisfied. I wanted to change
my base of
operrations, thought that I could do better than what I was doing
ther,
O if I should ever be permited to injoy such comforts again. I
would know how to appritiate them. (God grant
that I may) Again I say it is not nartrial for
us to be satisfied, though I injoy more comforts
than I am worthey of, yet I am not
satisfied. I thank God that I have bin spared and
permited to injoy
such great blesings while so meney far better than I am have bin cut
down by both desease & the enimy. I have bin
permited to pass unhurt and
injoy
exerlant health, after all this I am not
satisfied. I think that I would be rather better satisfied if the
speculaters were all presed
in to service so the poor women and children could
get some thing to eat with
out paying five times the worth of it,
if thare is any thing
to sell, a speculater is after it, faster
than a hawk after a chicken, it would not do
for me to have my way with them,
thare is no news in this so I will hush it, unless I could say some thing
better about them. I dont
beleave thare is any news in camp of importance
everry thing seems to be verry
quiet a bout here
Gen Corses
[1] Brigade has came
hae here. thay were
sent to Tennessee when we first stoped here. thay say thay had a verry nice time while thay
were gone they did not
loose but verry few of thair men,
our Chaplin has bin
verry
un well for several days though he is proveing now hope he will be well again in few
days. I dont
think I have ever told you his
name it is R.W. Cridlin
[2]he is a verry nice young Baptist minister,
I got a letter from sister
Benson[3] this
morningthay were all well, accept
Johe was at home complaining
though I dont sepose that he was verry bad off. she said he was
going to see his sweet heart. John is gone to the cook fire to make a slise potato pies. I wish you
were here to take dinner with, I see a good meney Ladies
pasing about camp, the married men are sending
for thair
wifes and boarding them with the citerzens around camp, I wrote to
sister Mary the other day and for got to tel her that we did not nead any clothing. we drew a
new suit the other day
anddont
nea want any clothing from home atal
every thing you all sent in the box came
safte I am under many obligations to you all for
send ing us such a finebox it was a great treat to us, I will closes for the presant
youmust write me soon and gave me all the
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