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Charles Cady letters, 1862-1864
1862-08-17 Page 03
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Contry, it reminds me of Denmark with its butiful shade trees and nice Orchards loaded with fruit. The river is not so wide as skunk but the channel is deeper, large boats have been up as far as this place and had to back down fifteen miles before they could turn round. I would like to know what you are all doing, did you get a new reaper are you done harvesting was the wheat any acount how are the colts getting along and last but not least what are they doing for the war, I understand the Rev. M, See has enlisted, now is the time, if ever the government needed assistance it is now While our enemy is strengthening themselves for one desperate strugle we ought not to be asleep, I think that we have force enough to hold what we have allready got but are wanting in men for vigorous prosecution of the war, we want to form a line of battle from the Mississippi River to Washington City and then close in on them nothing but destruction and death to the triators will answer now, we have tried the milk and water plan long enough do just what their leaders said we
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Contry, it reminds me of Denmark with its butiful shade trees and nice Orchards loaded with fruit. The river is not so wide as skunk but the channel is deeper, large boats have been up as far as this place and had to back down fifteen miles before they could turn round. I would like to know what you are all doing, did you get a new reaper are you done harvesting was the wheat any acount how are the colts getting along and last but not least what are they doing for the war, I understand the Rev. M, See has enlisted, now is the time, if ever the government needed assistance it is now While our enemy is strengthening themselves for one desperate strugle we ought not to be asleep, I think that we have force enough to hold what we have allready got but are wanting in men for vigorous prosecution of the war, we want to form a line of battle from the Mississippi River to Washington City and then close in on them nothing but destruction and death to the triators will answer now, we have tried the milk and water plan long enough do just what their leaders said we
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