| | 1 | Author: | Brand Civil War Collection: Brand, William Francis | Add | | | Title: | Brand Civil War Collection: Letter from William Francis Brand to
Amanda Catherine Armentrout, 1863 January 19  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Civil War Collection | UVA-LIB-BrandLetterscivilwar | | | | Description: | I have seated my self for the purpose of writing you a few lines to
inform you of our wharabouts my
health is very good & hope theese
fiew lines may find you enjoying the blessings of
health and happineſ I have
been waiting in suspence for some time for
a letter from you I have come to the
conclusion that my letter never came to
hand I wrote soon after I came down, you can well
inmagin how lonsome I have been in
looking for a fiew lines from you I will now send out the second arrow hoping it may find it's
destination Jake told me yesterday eavning that you had never hurd from me
since my return to camp I had in
writing yesterday put I thought
I would wait and send this by Mr Carson as the
other failed by mail I have no news of importance
to write We ware on pickett last week had a very easy tour of it, I
could not see any yankees acroſs the
river I think the grater portion of thare army has gon South & some twenty or thirty
thousand of our army has gon to meet
them we have orders to keep one days rations in
our haversacks
untill further orders
Some thinks we are going to South Carlina I havent but one objection to
going It wuldill be so seldom that we could hear from
home I would like to See
the country & then we would be on the cost whare we could get plenty of oysters we hafto pay six dollars a
gallon for them
here & no butter then to
eat with
them, well I got a letter the other day from
the mill; I tell you that it had Sams name in
more than one line I had to laughf at several of her conclusions of the hearafter
we have a large Co. now for
duty some sixty odd, the largest in the
brigade we have got our tents at last the boys are busy building
chimmies to them, I hope we may camp
hear all winter We
have plenty of wood and tolerable good
water, and are enjoying all the sweets of camp life, and you know they
are fiew at best
I hardly know what to write to
interrest you I hope you have
recieved any other letter before this
time I wish I was whare I
would'nt have to write for
it is a grate deal more pleasure
to me to talk to you than to write I have often
been near you in my dreams since I last seen
you, but alas what are dreams they vanish
in a moment from our sight & are gon forever I hope the time may soon
come when I may fondly encircle thee in my arms & call thee
mine
oh Kate forget the I never
can & would not be forgot for the
gold of opher, I hope your path may be strune with flowers and if I can not make you happy
some other may I ask an interest in your prayers excuse this uninterresting
letter I will try and do better
next time let no one see this my respects to all & my love to you | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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