Vicksburg Miss Aug 10^th/63

 

Dear Kate

                        Some ten days ago I droped you a few lines informing you of my illness but am at this time enjoying as good health as I ever had in my life and I hope this may find you in the enjoyment of good health and all the blessings this world can aford it has been some fifteen days since I have had any word from you and it realy seems to me like it has been a month oh how I long for this unnatural war to come to a close then we would have the privalage of meeting and haveing a social chat but we must communicate with each other by letter and make that answer untill the proper time comes for us / to meet our Army Corps is ordered to report to General Banks and we will leave here soon for the department of the Gulf whether we will go to New Orleans or to Texas I do not know but the suposition is that we will go to Texas as to the petickulars in regard to the surrender of Vicksburg you no doubt have had the pleashure of reading them in the paper and it is unnecessary for me to enter into a detail in regard to a matter that you are already familiar with I will only say that we got thirty two thousand five hundred and forty prisoners here and about two thousand at Jackson and that we have entirely ruined the Southern Army in this part of the country of both Pemberton and Johnson The weather is very warm here / and if we should be moved farther south I do not know how we will stand it I have no news of importance to communicate please extend my most kind regards to your Mother and believe me to be your true friend forever

                                                                                    David S. Scott

                                                                                    Co H 8^th Regt Ind Vols

                                                                                    1^st Brigade 14^th Div

                                                                                    13^th Army Corps

                                                                                                Vicksburg

                                                                                                            Mississippi

Miss Kate Missimer

            Jersey Shore

                        Pa

                                    by my next I hope

to be able to write a more lengthy

letter

                                    D.S. Scott

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