Stout1

Transcription: 

[1] Rienzi St miss April 20 1862
D Eliza Russell
Dear mo ther I take my
pen in hand to let you no that I am well at this time
and I hope those fiew lines will find you
well we think that we will leav this
plac and we do not now wher we will go next
but I think that we will to to mobeel nex
place we have not guns at this time
but we think we will get arms soon the
pickets report that the enemy was in five
miles of us. it is very muddy at this place
a b[a]d place to write eny atawl
mother let me no whather unkel h[u]ghes
go with the malitea or not
mother excuse my bad speling and writing
so goodby until I hear from you
a gane
Thomas A Stout

Footnotes: 
  1. Thomas Stout’s mother had apparently remarried. She was living in Decatur, Newton County, Mississippi at the time this letter was written.
Date: 
April 20, 1862
Collection: 
Joseph Hughs and Thomas Stout Collection

Author(s)

Thomas A. Stout
Unit: 
Co. I, 36th Mississippi Infantry
Rank: 
private
Residence (County): 
Newton County, MS

Recipient(s)

Eliza Russell
Residence (County): 
Newton County, MS

From

From State: 
Mississippi
From Municipality: 
Rienzi, MS

To

To State: 
Mississippi
To Municipality: 
Decatur, MS
To County: 
Newton

Transcription/Proofing Info

Transcriber: 
Michael Ellis
Transcription Date: 
May, 2014

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