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1862-08-17 Page 01
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Camp near Boliver Hardeman County, Tenn. Aug. 17, 1862 Dear Parents I will try and spend a few moments in pening a short epistle to you, I am enjoying good health now and so are all the Danville boys and to all apearance seem to enjoy themselves first rate. They like to go on picket guard so that they can get out among the farmers to jayhawk, they will milk the cows dig sweet potatoes gather peaches and press chickens and in short live well, the citizens say that we seem more like friends than enemes and well they may for I think we are the best friends they have got. they say times are a great deal better since we came among them than they wer before, some of corse are not very well pleased to have us here, but then they cant help themselves, they begin to feel the efects of the blockade for instance the artical salt, the highes sale I herd of being made was $1,10,00 per sack, they cant get it atall unless we are amind to let them have it, the loyal citizens go to the commanding General and obtain a permit to go to the tennesse river to get it, then they are not alowed to get more tan one barrel to the family
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Camp near Boliver Hardeman County, Tenn. Aug. 17, 1862 Dear Parents I will try and spend a few moments in pening a short epistle to you, I am enjoying good health now and so are all the Danville boys and to all apearance seem to enjoy themselves first rate. They like to go on picket guard so that they can get out among the farmers to jayhawk, they will milk the cows dig sweet potatoes gather peaches and press chickens and in short live well, the citizens say that we seem more like friends than enemes and well they may for I think we are the best friends they have got. they say times are a great deal better since we came among them than they wer before, some of corse are not very well pleased to have us here, but then they cant help themselves, they begin to feel the efects of the blockade for instance the artical salt, the highes sale I herd of being made was $1,10,00 per sack, they cant get it atall unless we are amind to let them have it, the loyal citizens go to the commanding General and obtain a permit to go to the tennesse river to get it, then they are not alowed to get more tan one barrel to the family
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