James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 3 April 1864
                                                                                                            Warrenton Junction
April 3th/64
 
                                                                                                                        Dear wife
it is with plesure that I emprove the time this Sunday morning to answer your kind lettar of the 31th and was glad to hear from you I am well at presant and hope theas few lines will find you all enjoying the same blessing from God I sent you my likeness in my last lettar and would like your as soon as you can send it to me I think that I will sell my watch soon and then I can send you som/ more money for I know you nead the money more than I do the watch Leveret Starkwithers has got back to the comp again he came hear last thirsday Dea Mary I would A gratedeal rather reade A lettar from you than hear shorty tell his yarns for I cant believe half of his stoarys we have to pay 60 cetes a pound for buttar and not very good at that cheese is 40 cets but I doant by mutch of eather we live princeply on goverment rations and that is bread shugar an coffey beans potatoes an poark the potatoes is very scarse I would like to troop in/ som morning and take brekfast with you dos Pa work with John Samford or dos he work for him self I entend to go to meating at eleven oclock but I wishe that I was thare to go with you John is well at presant I had a lettar from Mary Birnie but have not answerd it yet and I doant care about writing to hure a grate deal for she dos not write aney news I would rather have one lettar from you than all she can write I will bringe this to a close by sending you my love and beste wishes and believe me now and ever your loving husband untill death
                                                                                    James Swanson
2016
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(2016)DL0337.03533Letters1864-04-03

Letter From Sergeant James Swanson, 146th New York Zouaves, Warington Junction, Virginia, April 3, 1864, to His Wife


Tags: Food, Money, Photographs, Religion

People - Records: 2

  • (1110) [writer] ~ Swanson, James
  • (1111) [recipient] ~ Swanson, Mary Elizabeth ~ Johnson, Mary Elizabeth ~ Remore, Mary Elizabeth

Places - Records: 2

  • (73) [origination] ~ Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia
  • (1012) [destination] ~ Camden, Oneida County, New York

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James Swanson to Mary E. Swanson, 3 April 1864, DL0337.035, Nau Collection