| | 1 | Author: | Booker, John, 1840-1864 | 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 receaved your letter of the sixth sence I have bin at this place
an
wer glad to here from you all, I would have ritten
to you be fore now but we have bin posted on the out post
an I have ent had the
chance this leaves mi
self &
Jimey
well an much hopeen
these few lines
ma find you in joying the
same blesing. We have a good eal of sickness here, at least a good em
meny that are
un able for service
We have had a very hard time sence we left
Orange C H, we havent got any tents, nor I
dont
reaken we will have any whyle
we sta
here, we have to sta in
entrenchments every other day an night, the
entrench ments
we
sta in are in a quarter of a mile of
the yankees, they are constant shoot ing
at us an
throw en
bums over us, we
have ent got but one of our men wounded sence we
have bin here, but some are get en
woun ded every day an
sum
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