1862
Wedenesday June 4
Dear Carie I lucke for a
letter from you last knite but
fail to get it I am so anscious to
hear from you I havn recivd
but one letter from you yet
I hav written three besids this
thes lines leav me up but not
well I hav had avry bad cole
but it is better we hav news
evry day from va I suppose the
big fight has com off & our
folks had drove the enemy back
with grate lose on both Sids the
news has got hear that Stone
wal Jackson had got ovr in
marylan taken the enemy as they
come god grant it I prey
it rain all day yestrday &
last knit it was vry disagreeble
wether I[t] lucks like farin off
this morning I hav Just bin
out on drill I am lerning to
drill vry fast I can drill
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as well as some of the old ones
now Carie we got orders this
morning to cuok four dayes rashins
I dont know what for Som Ses we
will go to charlston Som Ses
to va Som ses we wont go know
whir Some Ses it don to try us
we can hear any thing we want
to hear but to go home we cant
hear of that without it some
one Sick & hardely then I stuod
gard last friday & friday knight
I dont like it much I thort of
you all way at the ded hours
in the knight when evry thing
was stil Carie I thort of what you
told me about going to Sleep
I kep walkin I was right on the
rivr bank I hav seen six men
put under gard sense I bin hear
two for fiting two for getting
drunk one for cursing his
capten they maid some work
some march thir has bin non
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ove ouer company in the gard
tent yet if aman fails to ancer
to his naim when the role is
cald he is doble duted
the nus has come that they
ar fiting at charlston I don know
whether it is so or kno it my
bee a camp lie you can hear
a camp lie when ever you want
Sens I bin writing I hav heard a
big gun carie I send a grane of
cannon pouder I dont recon you
ever saw any I nevr did befor
the government hasent giv me
any thing yet only a tent &
ole musket & catrige box if I
hav to mov a way from hear
I hav nothing to carie my cloas
in nor my rastins we dont get
any meat but hog Jaws & beef
& after this weak weak we will
get 2 lbs of spilt bacon one
pint of surup [as] much rice as we
want & meal & a little flour
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also a little coffee & suger but
I dont know how long it will
last the govrment has cald fo[r]
ten men from each
company of our regiment they
want to form a battalion
of Sharp Shoters to bee arm with
rifels to bee attach to ouer begade
they [drew?] for them in ouer compny
they nevr drew any one that you
know only L W Pope [1] the morning
they drew I wished I was at hom
but they nevy drew me they hav
left yet it my bee like
Som other things I may get out
I dont blev they can arm
them with Sharp Shoters I must
close nothing more at present
only I remain your most loving
husban tell death I would like
to see you all the best kine I
had rether hear of pees then any
thing in the world kiss the childr
for me my best lov to one & all
T. A. Woodham to N. C. Woodham
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I could not finish on the
other pice of paper Carrie me
& John Peek bought a Sac of rice togather
waing one hundred lbs we
sent it to savannah yesterday
to send home we directed it to
Mr Mathisons Cuthbert ga it
cost $4.30 cts I recon the frate
will bee about one dolar I
want you to get it if you
can pay half the frait & take
half the rice John & Eli
Mc Keithron sent a sac to Mr Sasser if you could see
Mr Sasser I expect he would
bring it for you the reason
whi I bought it was the company
drew m[o]re then we could
eate & I thort it was cheape I
know all the family like
it I want you to write to me
evry wake fail not for I nevr
wanted to hear from home
as in my lif giv me all the
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nuse hou the crops ar getting
along & huo is gon to the war &
when you heard from william
& sam & whir they ar I started
a letter to t[h]em yesterday I
backet it to Richmon I wrote
to Ree & Ed Hannah Woodall
King I dont expect to write
any more until I got aletter
from som one I want to know
whether you hav evr herd from
Dr Smith or knon & capten
Malery I recond I hav sed
anof for the present so guod
by giv best love to all
the family except the same
your self kiss my dear sweat
little children your umble
friend & husband tell give my
best love to mother & family
& all my friends if ther
bee any when this you see remember
me T. A. Woodham