| | 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 afew lines this eavning which will inform you that
my self & brother are bothe well and I much
Hope this may reach you in due time and find you
injoying the best of health and all other
blesing, We have had a
verry still Christmas un til
yesterday the last day we were caledout to Stop the enimy though fortionately for us thay
were stoped before we got
verry far from our camp, the
Yankees atacked our men at
Green ville
N.C.
about (35) thirty five miles from this place, our
men drove them back. I havent
hird the particulars about the fight, though it is
reported in camp that the yankees took one company of the 57
Va. Regt
prisners I dont
know wether it is true or not, I am verry glad thay
whiped the yankees back without our having to go down
thare, for the roads were
mudy and it was raining the most of the day, it is mostly clear to day and
verry
bloustry, it has bin
warm the most of the time sence we have bin
here it is much
pleasenter here than it is in northern
Va
and every thing is much cheaper, we
can buy potatoes and turnips here for
(3.00) three dollars per bushel by going 5 or
6 miles from camp, the most of the citizens
in the country seem to have a fine
chance of pork in fact everry thing is more plentyful
here than it is in
Va
whare the army has bin,
we have got an awful bad name sence we have bin here, the soldiers dont like the
N.C.
nor the
N.C.
dont like the
Va.
soldiers,
some of the soldiers does act verry
trifling it is enough to make any body mad with
them,
thay will steal, some
times thay go out and steal potatoes and
hogs, the
Gen sent an order here the other day for the
men all to be turned out on the parade ground and then search thair
houses,
thay did not find but
verry little meat in our Regiment though
thay found good eal in the 53
Regt I think thay
found two (2) whole hogs in one company; I hope the thiefs will be sevierly punished for doing so and I guess thay
will
the man that had the meat in our
Regt has
desirted
sence he was caught in his
meanness I expect he will go to the yankees,
he was a verry trifling fellow at his best I think any man that will steal like thay did aught to be whiped with a cow hide, I
have said enough about the rags[2] unless I
could say some thing in thare favor and it would not do for me to say too much about
them I might be caught some time
my self,
Some body stole upwards ($18 000)
eighteen thous end dollars from the QM of our Regiment a short time ago the soldiers were charged with it and I
expect some of them got it
thay was an old Lady
who lost a skillet of soup last night and she
came a round
to day
searching the soldiers houses for it She did not find it in our Regt She went to the
53
Regt I haven't hird
wether she found it or not
it is reported that Gen Barton[3]
said that his Brigade was composed of rags and thiefs for they were rags before thay left
home, I think he had better make some acceptions or mind how he talks ani, if he only new it is
not healthy for him to gave
honist people such a bad name because some men does
wrong, well
thare is no news nor interest in this to you so I
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