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Transcription: 

Sunday 8 Oclock at night
                     th
Camp Price Dec 14 1862
Dea[r] Margaret we hav
Just got orders to go to charlston
thar is 40000 of yanks landed
on James Island tha have
bin fighting thare 13 hours
we start now in 20 minutes &
it may be when you get
this that I may [lie?] cold in death
but I hope not I will rit
th next opportunity so no more
only remain your ever lovey
husband untel death so fare
well Margaret I am in hopes
I will see you a gane
you tere this order A,J, White
of and send to Fergason
and get 2 tables I have
paid him for them

Date: 
December 14, 1862
Collection: 

Author(s)

Unit: 
Company C, 30 GA Infantry ("Campbell Sharpshooters"); Bank's Partisan Rangers, 21 GA Cavalry [summer 1862 only]
Rank: 
Private

Recipient(s)

Other: 
Wife of Andrew J. White

From

From State: 
Georgia
From Municipality: 
From County: 
Chatham
From Note: 
Camp Price

To

To State: 
Georgia
To County: 
Campbell
To Note: 
Modern-day Fulton

Transcription/Proofing Info

Transcriber: 
Shiloh Peters
Transcription Date: 
July, 2012
Proofer: 
Michael Ellis
Proof Date: 
December, 2012

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