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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: I write you afew lines this morning which will inform you that my self & brother are both well and geting on finely. and I much hope this may reach you in due time and find you all injoying the best of health and all other blesing, I have no news of importance to write, we have bin near Chambers Burg for several days. and I reaconwe will stay several days longer, we have quite a nice time sence we have bin Pennsylvania in the way of something to eat we can get plenty of milk & & butter and apple butter that is verry good the citerzens in this country all seem to be afraid of us thay treat us verry kind though I beleave it is don through fear the most of our Virginia boys treat them verrykind though thare is some of our extream southern troops has treated the people badley I am sorry thay do so. it is against ed Gen Lees orders to interrupt private prop erty, this is a verry flourishing looking Country the crops all look fine. the country has it has never felt the affect of the war, though I guess if we stay here long it will feel the affect of it, our quater masters & Commisarys has goten agreat meney nesarys for our army sence we have bin in this state
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