Nashville Tennessee July 15th 1863 Mr Trowbridge Dear Sir I take this pleasant opertunity of writing a few lines to you to let you know that I am well and I hope these few will find you all injoying they same Blessing Well Walter I want you to Do mee a favor by getting a Pare of Boots made for mee I want a pare of Calf Boots with Duble Soles 10 M Size and 11 in length
Painter, William – July 13, 1863
Nashville, Tennessee July 13th, 1863 Dear Sister I have just received your kind letter and I was glad to hear that you ware all well I am hapy to inform you that I am well at Present and I hope these few lines will find you all they Same I am very thankful to you for writing to mee I supose it is a busy time with farmers now in Michigan
Burns, Robert – July 4, 1863
Camp at Dechard at foot of Cumberland Mts. Tenn. July 4, 1863 My dear Davidson Here we are I believe to rest one day, having arrived last evening. I can hardly call it a camp having no tents or baggags with us. Bragg has escaped over the mountains and whether we are to pursue him or not I cannot say, not being entirely in Genl. Rosecran’s confidence, I suppose the rebel army is now in Chattanooga that part of it which has not been captured and scattered by us.
Hopkins, Nelson – July 1, 1863
Nashville, Tennessee Julye the 1 1863 Dear Friends I take my pen to let you know that I am weel and injoying good health, and I hope you are engoying the same blessing. I receved yours of the 19 every thing is quiet as Nashville but thire is sum hard fighting at the front.
Smith, Watson B. – June 14, 1863
Convalescent Hospital 4 miles S of Nicholasville Ky. June 14 1863 Dear Mary Imagin to yourself a large two-story stone house facing the south with a [ ? ] at the front door, a long piazza in rear, a large front yard, tastefully laid out and flowers of most every variety in full bloom several uncomon large locusts & other trees
Painter, William – June 14, 1863
Nashville, Tennessee June 14th, 1863 Dear Wife I again take this opertunity of writing to you I think my duty to write to you all though some considerable time has elapsed Since I received a leter from eather you or Walter But as you cannot write for Yourself I cannot Blame you for not writing to me But I hope you will get some body to write for you
Painter, William – June 10, 1863
Nashville, Tennessee June l0th 1863 Dear Wife I again take this opertunity of writing you a few lines to let you know that I am still living and in better health than When I Rote to you last and I hope these few lines will find you all well Dear Wife I thought as I could not hear from you I would sit down and write a few lines to you
Burns, Robert – May 29, 1863
In camp near Murfreesboro May 29, 1863 My dear Davidson I have but a moment to write by A. Ismen who is going home on sick leave. Our Army will probably move to-morrow, and before you receive this we may be in and through another battle. Our things are all packed and ready.
Burns, Robert – May 20, 1863
1st Brigade 2d Cavalry Div Murfreesboro May 20/63 My dear Davidson Yours of the 6th enclosing Willy’s I have. I was both surprised and pleased to hear that he was in Kalamazoo. I wish he could have come while I was there.
Painter, William – May 3, 1863
Sunday Morning May 3rd 1863 Nashville, Tennessee Dear Sir I will try and inprove they present Opertunity by Writing a Few line to you to let you know that I am Well and injoying good health and I hope these few lines Will find you all they Same it is very Warm hear in fact I may say hot for it is very hot some days they com that is up hear and about six or eight high
Painter, William – April 15, 1863
Head Quarters 22 th Michigan Volunters Nashville, Tennesee April the 15th 1863 Dear Wife I again take they opertunity of writing you a few lines to let you know that I am Still in they land of they living We left Kentucky on they 14 of April I saw they Eighth Regiment and they Second and They Seventeenth and Twentyfith Michigan Regiments I met with a good maney of my Old friends in they 8th
Burns, Robert – April 5, 1863
Kalamazoo April 5, 1863 My dear Brother I have heard nothing from you since my last written before leaving Nashville. Since then I have seen a little of war as you have probably learned from my letters to Davidson.
Burns, Robert – February 22, 1863
Camp Stanley near Murfreesboro H’d Qu’rs, 1st Cavalry Brigade February 22d, 1863 My dear Davidson Yours of the 15th inst, No 12, I have just received. Of course I was pleased to hear from you. I had also a week or ten days ago received yours of the 1st and the package slippers and socks. Thank you. The slippers I now have my feet encased in and am exulting in the consciousness of having on a new pair of hose.
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
Squire, Linus T. – January 21, 1863
Hd. Qrs. 11th Mich. Inf. Vols Murfreesboro Tenn 21st Jan. /63 Dear Cousin “Phil” Once more in this “course of human events” it become necessary for me to write an answer to a letter from you I recd your favor of the 21st ult. a few days since but have had no opportunity of answering before on account of the great press of business, consequently I am under the necessity of asking you to excuse my tardiness, which I think you will grant under the circumstances.
Sherman, Henry G. – January 11, 1863
Bowling Green K.Y. Jan 11th 1863 Affectionate brother as I have an opportunity to write a few lines today, I thought that I would do so And give you a short history of the situation of company d. As you Probaly have heard that it has been detailed for the purpose of Guarding a railroad bridge across the river called great bearren. This bridge is located on the same spot where the old one was where the rebels battered it down on the approach of our forces under general Mitchell numbering about 20 thousand.
Burns, Robert – January 11, 1863
Camp about 3 miles the other side of Murfreesboro Tenn. Jan’y 11, 1863 My dear Davidson I shall try to write you a letter, but how I shall succed I can not tell, as I am far from well, and would go to bed had I a decent one to lie down on. I wrote you short notes on the 28th and 4th letting you know that all was well with me as I know you would be anxious.
Reynolds, Robert – January 1, 1863-January 19, 1864
Tuesday, January 13, 1863.
The credulity of woman
on the subject of being
loved, is very great; they
often mistake a common
liking for a particular
regard, and on this
foundation build
up a castle in the air
and fill it with it
with all the
of their bright hopes
and confiding loved
and where some start-
ing fact destroys the
vision they feel as if
the whole oration were
a blank to them, and
they the most in
of woman
It is safer to be very
on the subject
of being loved; but if
you do make the
mistake, take all the
blame to yourself
and save your
by if you cannot
keep your heart from
loving
Burns, Robert – December 28, 1862
Please save for me extracts of papers referring to our army movements. See telegram to N.Y. Tribune about Dec 15. referring to our dash into Franklin under Gen Stanley we are not In camp in the woods about 9 [ ? ] but were the first miles from Murfreesboro and 20 into town. from Nashville. Sunday evening 9 o’clock Dec 28, 1862 My dear Brother You see we we on our winding way. On the morning of the 26th the Army of the Cumberland started for the south on three different road with a front of about 12 miles. The roads are the Murfreesboro on the left. Nolansburg centre, and Franklin on the right.
Oliver, John M. – October 13, 1862
Head Quarters 2nd Brigade 6” Division Camp Near Corinth Miss Oct 13” 1862 Capt I Bates Dickson A A Gen’l 6” Div. Sir. I have the honor to report the part taken by the 2nd Brigade of your division in the series of operations between Chewalla and Corinth. At the Battle of Corinth and the pursuit of the enemy to Ripley. The Division being at first under command of Brig. Gen’l McKean and afterwards under command of Brig Genl. McArthur. I had made a report embracing as concisely as possible the whole of its operations and submit the same report to both of those officers.
Oliver, John M. – October 2, 1862
Corinth Oct 2nd Col Oliver Dispatch rcd I presume you have already rcd instructions from Genl McKean which corresponds with your movements.
Fox, Perrin V. – September 19, 1862
[ ? ] Knob Ky. Sept. 19th 1862 My Dear Ida If you were on the hills at whose base we lay, you could get a pretty good birds eye view of the Army of the Ohio. Wood’s Division is in the advance, six miles from here.
Crawford, John Gault – January 11, 1862
Head Qrs. 2d Batt. 2d Mich. Cav. New Haven, Ky. Jan. 11, 1863 Cousin James: Seated upon this beautiful Sabbath afternoon all alone within my tent, trying to pass away the time the thought occurred to my mind that I would do something I never did before in my life, “to wit,” write Cousin James a letter and see how mad he would be at my imprudence.
Gardner, Alfred M. – January 10, 1862
Cincinnaty Ohio Jany 10th 1863 Dear Relatives It is with pleasure that I sit down for a moment to inform you of my safe arrival here