Saint Louis May 12th 64 Dear Wife I have a few moments of reflection and will improve them by conversing with you through the blessed comfiture the Pen To night I am not feeling very well was sick all night last night and this forenoon with the sick head ache and fever but am feeling some better now think if I am carefull I will get along all right Edwin is well he is cooking now with John for the Company
Fox, Perrin V. – April 28, 1864
Nashville, Tenn. April 28th 1864 My Dear Ida, I am here to get tools for use on the Fortifications at Stevenson. I expect to leave in twenty minutes and have just time to write a few words. I got my pay as Captain. To the time I was mustered out and enclose seventy dollars to you.
Burns, Robert – April 25, 1864
Head-Quarters 1st Brig., 2d Cavalry Division, Near Columbia, Tenn April 25 1864 My dear Davidson We have both kept silence for a long time. I he came I did not feel a bit like writing; you, I don’t know why. Since my last to you. I have spent a month in Nashville.
Burns, Robert – March 9, 1864
Head-Quarters 1st Brig., 2d Cavalry Division, Huntsville Ala March 9 1864 My dear Mother Davidson writes me that you have received no letters from me since your return to New York. I can not see why it is, as I have written you two or three times.
Burns, Robert – March 8, 1864
Head-Quarters 1 Brig., 2d Cavalry Division, Huntsville Ala March 8 1864 My dear Davidson I have to-day sent to Mrs Iswon a dragt on you for $115 10/x which please pay, and enter on the credit side of your ledger. It is the balance of A’s money which I held in my hands.
Smith, Asa – January 28, 1864-August 11, 1864; May 1865
I Velma E Gunning cherishes this Book. It is over 100 years old. And I [ ? ] [ ? ] my 86th Birthday. I was born on May tenth 1907. My husband’s Father (John W. Gunning) severed in the Civil War also. He was the drumer boy. I have never heard a Negro say “Thank You” to norther who enlisted to free the slaves. Asa Smith Byersvillel Livingston Co. New York Jan. 28th / 64 1. Jan 28 Grand Rapids Mich Enlisted in the service of the US Sixth Michigan Cavalry Co. H. Enlisted by Sergt. J.L. Martin Drew one set of dishes
Slater, William – January 20, 1864
Head Quarters, Com F First Reg. Michigan Engineers and Mechanics General Shearmans Army Camp Savannah Georgia Jan 20th 1864 From Wm Slater to Miss Clark I am happy today to [ ? ] that we received they old Nashville Mal to Day at this time I have got three letters on had 50 cents worth of stamp in it but they are not enough
Burns, Robert – January 17, 1864
Head-Quarters 1 Brig., 2d Cavalry Division, Huntsville Ala January 17 1864 My dear Davidson “Here we are again” as the Merry man says rushing into the ring, and transforming himself into a wheel or revolver of some kind. We arrived here on Thursday headed by a brass hand and a Brigadier General
Wasson, Thomas – January 12, 1864
Waterloo, Ala Jan the 12th/1864 Kind friend: Yours of the 3rd was duly received on the 19th and should have been an- swered before. We started on the Campaign after old Hood, but the weather was so intensely cold that it was impossible to write, infact the only way that we could keep from suffering was to go into our tents and cover up with our blankets. As we were camped close to Nashville, there was very little wood to be got.
Wasson, John – November 16, 1863; December 2, 1863
Winchester Tenn Nov. the 16th 1863 Dear Uncle Your letter of the 2nd of the month came to hand on the 12th and it was the first news of of any kind I had since the 28th of August from home but I found by reading it that there is some letters I never got we left Rankin ferry on the 8th of the month and came to this place it seams like going home to get back here once more Gen. Shermans army has been passing through here two days now
Shafer, Marion A. – July 12, 1863
Paris Mich Sunday morning July 12th 1863 Bud dear Brother Good gracious – it is perfectly glorifying – to think of commencing a letter to you once more. I hope we shall never hear of your being sick again – for we have been frightened almost to death
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
Oliver, John M. – December 9, 1862
Col Advance to the open fields over looking the Chewalla bottom I am here. and will send my cavalry down to Chewalla. Keep the same order of advance keeping flankers out picking up stragglers thru Brigades encamped here and left at 10 O. C. A.M.
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.