| | 1 | Author: | Booker, James, 1840-1923 | 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: | After long silance I write you afew lines which will inform you that we are boath
well, I have had very good health since I left
Richmond
John has bin a little sick
several times tho he is very well at this time, hard marching agrees with me finely
and I tel you I have had enough of that to
make me fat, if I only cud of goten
enough to eat, the rations has bin very scanty a large portion of the time sence we have bin marching, we
have not marched much for the last ten days and it looks like thay are trying to feed us to death
now, thay are giving us eny
quantity of fresh beef and fresh hog meat, I
would like very much to gave you a history of our
travels, tho I have not got the patiants nor time to write
it, I hope we will all be permited to return to our homes in peace soon, and then I
can tel you of our ups and downs, it is thaught in camp that we
will have peace soon and, I trust
we may
tho I dont know the public
appin ion I have not seen a paper in a
month,
all of our
conscripts are sick, thay was only four sent
to our company, John Hundley
[2] and Whit and
Memry Inman[3] and Buc Pruett
[4]
our old members has kept up finely concid ering the exposeure, we have to waid every stream
we come to that has no bridge across
it, we have waided the
potomac
three time we are not aloud time to take off our clothing, to croos creeks & rivers, we have to go in just
as we are, and then march with our wet clothing on,
Bag Pritchett &
Dac
are both sick and at the hospital,
Dasey Price[5] has
bin sick fror some time, he has
bin staying at
private house close by
Winches ter,
I
all of our sick & wounded are order ed from Winchester to
Staunton,
I think we will go bac to Richmond again soon at least I hope so, for I
have not hird a word from home since I left
Richmond,
you must write to me soon and direct your letters to Winchester, we are onley five miles
from Winchester
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