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Anson R. Butler letters, 1861-1900
1863-03-27 Page 1
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always let me know whether you recieve the money Floating Hospital Nashville Mar 27/63 My dear Wife I wrote a few days ago sending you $10,00. with an account of my whereabouts etc. and answering your letter of troubles. I have recd none from you for some time, none since that one. I am in a place where I may not recieve letters as regularly as I did in camp But I see no reason why you will not recieve mine as much so as ever. Well! I am not a great deal better yet, though Orange is doing all he can for me & has checked it some. The baggage was in a fearful shape when I came on board and I have been hunting up owners & checking it, most of the time with a man to help me. 600 men are on board with all their stuff. Patients dying & being discharged, recieving them all the time and their baggage in one mass of confusion, was the fix. I have just got through. find a great deal of it belongs to dead men (144 have died since they commenced recieving patients) some of it to men who were sent up the river and hundreds of dollars worth to no one in particular. They haven't baggage room enough anyhow. Now when a sick man comes on I have his baggage taken to his bed, he is stripped & hospital clothes put on, his own put in his sack, numbered with ward, section &
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always let me know whether you recieve the money Floating Hospital Nashville Mar 27/63 My dear Wife I wrote a few days ago sending you $10,00. with an account of my whereabouts etc. and answering your letter of troubles. I have recd none from you for some time, none since that one. I am in a place where I may not recieve letters as regularly as I did in camp But I see no reason why you will not recieve mine as much so as ever. Well! I am not a great deal better yet, though Orange is doing all he can for me & has checked it some. The baggage was in a fearful shape when I came on board and I have been hunting up owners & checking it, most of the time with a man to help me. 600 men are on board with all their stuff. Patients dying & being discharged, recieving them all the time and their baggage in one mass of confusion, was the fix. I have just got through. find a great deal of it belongs to dead men (144 have died since they commenced recieving patients) some of it to men who were sent up the river and hundreds of dollars worth to no one in particular. They haven't baggage room enough anyhow. Now when a sick man comes on I have his baggage taken to his bed, he is stripped & hospital clothes put on, his own put in his sack, numbered with ward, section &
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