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1Author:  Booker, James, 1840-1923Requires 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 and brother are both well and geting on verry well. and I much hope this may reach you in due time and find you all in joying the best of health and all blesings that our kind Protecter sees fit to bestow apon you all. I have no news of importance to write. we are having a verry still time now in camp. though I am fearful that it will not remain so much longer if wether keeps open. I think the spring campaign will soon commence. and then we poor soldiers will see a hard time. though if it is the will of God for us to suffer why should we complain when we know that he knows what is the best for us and will do nothing but for the best. I feel thank ful that I can cheerfully submit to his will If it is the will of my maker for me to be cut down in this war I dont ask to be spared for I beleave that he will do what is the best for me, thare is but few things that I would ask to stay in this trouble some world for, one great consolation to me is that if I am cut down, I have a hope of a better time in the future whare thare is neither worries and troubles thay was another lot of our prisners got to Richmond yesterday paroled from northern prisons I havent hird of any of my acquantance that came through with them infact I havent hird of any Virginians that came through this time scearsley, I hope that thay will parole all of them soon, I have hird that two of our Co. D had taken the Oath of iligeans and joined the yankee army. thay keep our men thare in thier prisons and treat them so badley that thay become so dissatisfied. thay had almost as live die as to stay thare then thay will get them to take the Oath and jian thier army, though if it is the will of God for the South to over power the North. thier swindling will not avail them any thing in the long run, it may make the war continue some longer. though thay will see that it will do them no good,
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