Daniel V. Personius to William Personius and Julia A. Personius, 21 January 186X
Camp Near
Poplar Grove
Church Va
Jan the 21th
 
Dear Parants   Once more I am seated for the porpus of communicateing to you to let you now of my presants health and wareabouts I am well at presant and hope these few lines will find you in the same pardicoment we are in camp to day and have nothing to do the cause is that it rains so that we cant work 
 
in your last letter you wanted to now weather I had received that lost five dollars or not I did and have got it all spent.
 
James has just come in and says that the coffee is most dun so I will haft to lay by my riteing till after diner we are a going to have another pop pie for dinner
                                                                         
big thing on ice
 
Cant think of any more to rite about so I will haft to close for this time
 
this is from your son
in the Army
D V P /
 
Daniel Voorhis Personieus
 
to
Almira Personieus
 
William Personieus
 
wo'nt rite
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DATABASE CONTENT
(12932)DL1807.061190Letters186X-01-21

Tags: Camp/Lodging, Food, Money, Recreation, Weather, Work

People - Records: 3

  • (4531) [recipient] ~ Personius, William
  • (4532) [recipient] ~ Personius, Julia Almira ~ Voorhis, Julia Almira
  • (4551) [writer] ~ Personius, Daniel Voorhis

Places - Records: 1

  • (628) [origination] ~ Dinwiddie County, Virginia

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Daniel V. Personius to William Personius and Julia A. Personius, 21 January 186X, DL1807.061, Nau Collection