| 1 | Author: | Booker, James, 1840-1923 | Add | | 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 to let you know whare
we are, we are on the out
post
the yankees are shooting at our men constantly
tho it is very cildom
thay hit eny of them, thay havent
shot but one man in our Regiment he was shot thursday, the he was shot in chin, his
name was T
Tucker[1]
be long
ing to Capt
Carters
Company, thay was a battle faught
here last weorsday eavening
thay
a good maney killed on boath sides
tho a great maney more on the
enimys
side than thay was on ours
we was not in the ingagement
theyankees sent a flag of truse
this eavning to berry thar dead,
ifthay we have a general ingage ment
here I think it will settle the
war for the best of the two
armys is here, the yankee prisners
that our men have taken say that
thay have got to whip or die here, and I
thay will have to die at least I hope so, | | Similar Items: | Find |
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