Brownsville Sta Arkansas Dec. 23 64 Dear Father As I was thinking it a long time since I received a letter from you and forgetting whether I had answered or not will now improve the present This leaves us well I mean all but John Bonesteel he has a bad cough Hope this may find you enjoying good health which is the source of happiness
Buchanan, John C. – August 31, 1863
Camp 8th Michigan Near Crab Orchard, Kentucky August 31, 1863 Dear Father, We are again well down in the state of Kentucky – breathing pure air & drinking pure water, thankful that we are as well situated as we are. The watchful care of divine providence has been over us in all the dangers of military life both by sea & land, preserving alike from the pestilence that walketh by noon day & the missile of death
Norton, Sylvester R. – March 29, 1863
Lancaster KY Sunday Mar 29/63 Dear Hattie you will See by this that I am yet alive & I can add well but it is a wonder I am well for we have done Some tall work in the way of Marches at all hours of the Day & Night for the past week I wrote you a letter last Sunday and one Wednesday giving you Same accounts of our encounter with the Rebs & promising to give a more detailed account of it
Painter, William – February 1, 1863
Camp Ella Bishop Lexington, Kentucky February l, l863 Dear Sir I will take the opertunety of writing you a few lines to let you know that I am well at present. and I hope these few lines will find you all enjoying they blessing I have rote two letters to you and have not received no answer yet I sent twenty dolars to Hanah by Captin Beardslee
Norton, Sylvester R. – January 4, 1863
Camp Ella Bishop Lexington Jan. 4, 1862 Dear Hattie once more I sit down to have a few minutes chat with you but the chat is all on my side now for you are not near enough to do the answering now but it is a great consolation to me to know it will come bye and bye I do not know what I should do if it wer not for the privilege of writing
Cole, Emmet – April 27, 1862
S.CA. Beaufort, April 27th, 1862 Respected Father, Today being Sunday and not having a great deal to do I will write a few lines to you. I am well with the exception of a sore throat. I hear that you have been very sick which accounts for your not writing to me any oftener. I have never received but one letter from you since I have been in the army and you don’t know how glad I was to receive even one