| | 1 | Author: | Booker, John, 1840-1864 | Requires 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 ll take the presant
op potunity
portunity
of answering your kind letter of the 10
inst[2] which came to hand a few days
a go
you
dont
no what pleasure it was
afforded me to receive your letter an
here that you all
wer
gettin on well. I am sure thare is nothin that affords me more
plesure than to recieve a letter from any
of my frends or relation
at home. but
its
sildom I get a letter I had
bin
exspectin a letter from you too or three weeks before I received it I
wreaken I will have to excuse you this time far not
writen sooner an hope that you
will doo
beter next
time. this will in farm
you that my self
an Brother are both well an
much hopeing this will reach you indue time and
find you all injoying the same great Blesing and all all other
Blesing that home can afford, we have some sickness in camp now which come from
exposure I wreaken. Flem Gregory[3] has bin quite sick for the last four or five days. he has the pnuemonia
but is not dangers I dont
think, he is something better
today, he is all the one that is sick in our company an I hope he will bee
soon up
Plese excuse bad Writin
and Spellin for it is very Badly dun
Christmas is close by and I se no chance for me or
James to get home. I would like the best in the
world for one of us to get home by Christmas if we could and I think
one of us was to get a furlough and if the officers would doo
rite we would get one. but
if they can get g home whenever they pleas they dont care for us, I havent never applide for a furlo
but James have bin after one
an
cant get it started, I
beleave if Capt Herndon
[4] would start one for him he would get it but he is Just
too lazy to write it
out,
thare
is ent
a nother company in the regt but
wh what gets more furloughs than our company doo and I dont
be leave
its anything else but because
John Herndon
wount
dont
start them, I wreaken
the next time we orgune
Organize the armey we had
better
all bee
Of ficers or privates one for thare is too much dif farence
made in them,
Capt Herndon expects to get another
fur lough soon after Christmas to go home but if
I had it in power he would not get one til the
last man in his company get one. We are here now dooen
nothen in the wa world not eaven
pickett duty and my oppenion the most of the men that dont get
fur loughs
be fore
thare three years are out will go when thay are out
thay say so any how,
Plese
I dont mean to say that I will go home but
nearly all the men say they will if they
will
dont
call out all the men that have put in substitute
an furlough all the old soldiers that have bin out so long, I am a posed to desertion as much as any
boddy can bee but I say put every one on equal foottin for this is a rich mans war an a por
mans
fight,
[5] I be leave
thare are some of the men that have but in substitute are dooen a great eal of good but the most of them are doo en more harm than good
they are just speculaten
on the poor people, an
soldiers, I must stop a
bout the soldiers for I wreaken you think
I am going the other side of
my self, I dont think think
thare will be much Christmas seen here this time
but I hope you all will have a good time, I exspect there will be a
weding near you in the Christmas
Memory Inman[6]
starts home in the morning on furlou to get
marred I hope he will ge
have a good
time, I exspect he is going
to take Miss Mary
Fullar, I dont
no, I will stop James
& cousin Thom Joins me in love too you all, you must write
soon an give me all the news, no
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