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Andrew F. Davis papers, May-December 1861
01_1861-10-04-Page 01
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Camp Elk Water. Oct 4th 1861 Mrs Sarah Davis Dear Wife With a weary hand I now set down to address you a line to let you Know that I am Still alive and well Since I last wrote you from Cheat Mountain I have endured the most hardships that I ever did in my life in the same length of time. The same evening that I wrote you that letter, about 6 Oclock it commenced raining verry hard and rained all night and we had no tents consequently we had to do the best we could but it rained so hard that I could not seep any at all. The next morning it was still raining and about noon the wind changed to the North and it became verry cold and the wind blew a perfect hurricane and still raining if anything harder than before and we ware on the exposed point of the mountain consequently we got the full force of the Storm. We worked hard in trying to Keep our fires burning but the wind and rain combined kept it from doing us much good. Late in the evening we got orders to move over on the South side of the mountain where the wind would be broken from us to a certain extent and we there built log heaps. after a great deal of labour and Stood around them and kept ourselves partially warm. but no sleep for me. Some of the boys ware so worn out that they lay down and Slept and when Some of them awoke we had to carry
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Camp Elk Water. Oct 4th 1861 Mrs Sarah Davis Dear Wife With a weary hand I now set down to address you a line to let you Know that I am Still alive and well Since I last wrote you from Cheat Mountain I have endured the most hardships that I ever did in my life in the same length of time. The same evening that I wrote you that letter, about 6 Oclock it commenced raining verry hard and rained all night and we had no tents consequently we had to do the best we could but it rained so hard that I could not seep any at all. The next morning it was still raining and about noon the wind changed to the North and it became verry cold and the wind blew a perfect hurricane and still raining if anything harder than before and we ware on the exposed point of the mountain consequently we got the full force of the Storm. We worked hard in trying to Keep our fires burning but the wind and rain combined kept it from doing us much good. Late in the evening we got orders to move over on the South side of the mountain where the wind would be broken from us to a certain extent and we there built log heaps. after a great deal of labour and Stood around them and kept ourselves partially warm. but no sleep for me. Some of the boys ware so worn out that they lay down and Slept and when Some of them awoke we had to carry
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