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1Author:  Booker, James, 1840-1923Add
 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 a few lines this morning which will inform you that my Self and John is yet in the land of the living and injoying a reasonable portion of health, and much hopeing, th when this comes to hand it may find you and all injoying the same great blessing, I have no news of interest to write, we have bin marching for the last four days, we got here yesterday evening, I understand there is plenty of yankees near hear, tho I havent seen eny of them, we met the citizens moving out yesterday as we came in, thay said the yankees was going to bshell the town yesterday, tho thay have not commenced shelling yet, I would not be surprised to hear the canon at eny time, I think our men is waiting for the yankees to open the ball, I hope thay will leave while our Genals Generals is waiting for them to commence fighting, I think thare is verry strong force here on both sides, if we have a battle here I expect it will be a verry hard one, I got a letter from sister Mary[2] last friday dated 17th inst[3] if you see her be fore cliff Penic [4] starts tel her not to send our coats
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