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Andrew F. Davis papers, May-December 1861
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back from the Hospital today and is nearly well again. All of the Liberty boys are well now and none of them are at Louisville now. I Send with this letter 2 papers which I want you to take to Mr. Thomas for him to publish in the Herald. I want to Know if you are going to go to School this winter I gave $2,50 for the picture I sent home to your mother and the one I sent to your Grand pa, Tell mother if she can get the two big pictures framed for $5.00. to get it done but not to give any more than that. It is the prettyest sight I ever saw to go out of our tents after night before the lights are put out as our camp is on hilly ground and there is Several hundred tents in camp and all with lights in them which makes them look like big lanterns Scattered all over the country. Tell your ma I am glad She has got her hogs Killed but I am afraid she will work So hard that she will be sick again. I got weighed today and weighed 167 lbs without my coat on So you see I am well and getting fat. Tell Nan I mean this letter for you and her both and I want her to get in Some Sly corner and write me one some of these days. Tell Ma and uncle Newton that I have not got a newspaper from them Since I have been in Kentucky. Wm Appleton got last weeks Herald tonight and I got to read it, The darkie I had to cook for me went home today and one of the Soldiers is cooking for me now. Ab. Bennett was to See me this evening and is going home in the morning. I am glad to hear that Wally Smith has been promoted to Sergeant as it proves that he has been a good soldier. Mans Crist is Sergeant in our company now. The drums are now beating for us to put out the lights So I must Stop for this time but will write to Some of you again this week. You must write to me often as that is the way to learn, and you dont Know how glad it makes me to get a letter from my dear little girls, No more this time from your affectionate father A. F. Davis Misses Orrilla & Nancy Davis
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back from the Hospital today and is nearly well again. All of the Liberty boys are well now and none of them are at Louisville now. I Send with this letter 2 papers which I want you to take to Mr. Thomas for him to publish in the Herald. I want to Know if you are going to go to School this winter I gave $2,50 for the picture I sent home to your mother and the one I sent to your Grand pa, Tell mother if she can get the two big pictures framed for $5.00. to get it done but not to give any more than that. It is the prettyest sight I ever saw to go out of our tents after night before the lights are put out as our camp is on hilly ground and there is Several hundred tents in camp and all with lights in them which makes them look like big lanterns Scattered all over the country. Tell your ma I am glad She has got her hogs Killed but I am afraid she will work So hard that she will be sick again. I got weighed today and weighed 167 lbs without my coat on So you see I am well and getting fat. Tell Nan I mean this letter for you and her both and I want her to get in Some Sly corner and write me one some of these days. Tell Ma and uncle Newton that I have not got a newspaper from them Since I have been in Kentucky. Wm Appleton got last weeks Herald tonight and I got to read it, The darkie I had to cook for me went home today and one of the Soldiers is cooking for me now. Ab. Bennett was to See me this evening and is going home in the morning. I am glad to hear that Wally Smith has been promoted to Sergeant as it proves that he has been a good soldier. Mans Crist is Sergeant in our company now. The drums are now beating for us to put out the lights So I must Stop for this time but will write to Some of you again this week. You must write to me often as that is the way to learn, and you dont Know how glad it makes me to get a letter from my dear little girls, No more this time from your affectionate father A. F. Davis Misses Orrilla & Nancy Davis
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