No. 47.                                                                                               

Camp Proclermation

Wood Ville, Ala.

January 24^th /64

 

Dear Mollie,

I received a letter from you yesterday writen the 10 & mailed the 14. your letters have come regular for the past three weeks. thare was one time that I did not get eny for over 2 weeks. your letter gave an acount of Dons death. you spoke of his dying so easy, that is the way that the most of soldiers die. I have seen a great many that would walk around & in one hour would be dead & die without a strugel. I think it is to bad that all of Marys folks was gone, but they could do him no good, his time had come & he must go. he has gone to that place whare all is peace & hapiness for I believe all soldiers will go thare that die in defens of their country. / you never told me if Don got that land which John was to have off from the old farm. you spoke some time ago in one of your letters about my sending my handkerchief & towel. I had towels anough without & the handkerchief I never have used, so I concluded to send them home & use cotton. this is sunday afternoon, a very pleasent day it has been. we will soon have dress perade, so I will not write eny more to day, good by. Monday 25. well Mary I dont expect to write much to day for it is 3 oclock & we have dress perade at 4. this forenoon I went to the station & this afternoon I went out with the boys to practice, so you see the day was prety well ocupied. I heard a fiew minets ago that the pay master was here. I dont no how true it is, if he is here we will get our pay in a fiew days. I will send you some money / as soon as I know whare to send it. you will please write in your next about it. we are having some of the finest weather I ever saw for the time of year. it is so warm that it is uncomfortable with a coat on. thare is nothing of importance going on so I cannot write a very interesting letter. thare was one thing hapened night before last which I will mention, thare was a corell of one hundred & 50 12 mules about 5 miles from here which was tended by sitizens from the north, 20 in number. they were highered by the goverment for teamsters. they was in a house near by playing cards with some girls when a squad of rebs came in & took them & all the mules. they came from the other side of the tenn. river. a lot of our cavelry went out the next morning. we have not heard from them yet. well, Mary I have just received another letter from you / No. 43, writen the 14. I was glad to get it if I did get one day before yesterday I am sory that your mail has been delayed so much. this is the fourth letter I have writen you this month.

 

Tues, 26. well Mary I will finish my letter this morning. Mary I think you did me injustice by not leting me know about Ann, por girl, how bad it must be for mother. it will be the cause of her death before long I know, for she always thought so much of Ann. you say she is geting wors. O how I would like to see her, but I never will I know, for she will not live long. can it be that so proud & smart a girl as she was must come to that, but I know it must be so. may god have mersy on her & relieve her from such an awful disease.

 

Mary I cannot write eny more I am well & may this find you all the same

 

From your husband O Shibly to Mollie.

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