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1Author:  Booker, James, 1840-1923Add
 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: It is with much pleasure that I embrace the present oppotunity of responding to your kind and interesting favor of the 17th inst which came to hand in due time and aforded me much pleasure to hear that you were all well. I and would have answered it amidiately though we had to go on picket and I thought that I would wait until we came bac to camp. and may be I would have some thing new to write so I have though it is not verry good if it is true, It is reported that Yankee is coming up the peninula I do not know wether thay are coming in force or not. or even wether thay are coming atal, one of our men were at a fishery about 20 miles below here yesterday he said that thay were expecting the Yankees thare when he left, it maybe just a squad of cavalry aiming to drive our men from the fishery. I havent hird any thing from thare this morn ing, I hope the next time I hear from thare to hear that thay are all rite again. the 53 regt[1] has bin down thare fishing for some time, we have drawn fish one time since thay have bin fishing and I guess will draw more soon if the Yankees dont drive our men from the fisherry, some of our men in camp has bin cacth catching a good meny fish lateley with hooks I have caught verry few my self, though I guess it is my own fault be cause I were two lazy to fish for them, we are having beautiful wether now for spring also a verry nice time in camp much nicer than I expected some time ago. I made sure that we would have to fight before this time. our army and the Yankee army are geting verry close to gather in Northern Va I dont think that it will be many days before thay havewill have a fight, thay had a small skirmish yesterday morning with cavalry I beleave it is generally beleaved that the Yankees are going to do thier best for Richmond this campaign I beleave that this campaign will decide the war hope it may we have bin verrysuccesful so this far this spring and I hope and pray that we may continue to be succesful this summer and end this cruel war in our favor, We rec yours and sisters[2]letters of the 24 inst sence I comenced writing verry glad to hear from you all though verry sorry to hear of Martha[3] being sick much hope she is well before this time, also verry sorry to hear Ucle of Uncle Drurys sufering with his caugh I much hope it will not pester him long, [4] well I beleave that I have writen enough for the present so I will close hoping to hear from you verry soon Gave my best respects to Uncle Drury and the rest of the family also to Jennie and her family and til them all to write to me as I am allways anxcious to hear from them,
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