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| + | </p><p>July 10th 1862 | ||
| + | </p><p>Dear Nannie – I got another first rate [‘first rate’ underscored] | ||
| + | letter from you last evening dated July 3[r]d – I | ||
| + | was looking for it, & know there is another | ||
| + | in R[ich]mond [Virginia] for me now. You have no | ||
| + | idea how much good your letters do me. | ||
| + | Doc & Sam got long ones from Millie too, | ||
| + | Tell Millie & [?] they ought not to [?] | ||
| + | letters with [mine?]. Tell Charley I thank | ||
| + | him for the little flowers & keep them | ||
| + | because he kissed & sent them. You | ||
| + | dont know how anxious your letters make | ||
| + | me, to come home. Especially when you | ||
| + | tell so much about the children, & | ||
| + | seem so anxious for me to get a fur- | ||
| + | lough. There are so many sick in our | ||
| + | company & reg[imen]t, that it will be im- | ||
| + | possible for me to come. Seven have | ||
| + | died in our reg[imen]t, in the last eight or | ||
| + | nine days. I have kept so well the | ||
| + | </p><p><br /> | ||
| + | [2] | ||
| + | </p><p>whole time, they will be unwilling for | ||
| + | me to go – then most of our men have | ||
| + | been absent from home much longer than | ||
| + | I have. I was on picket with our com- | ||
| + | pany in sight of the battle you heard | ||
| + | Tuesday evening – wrote you a letter that | ||
| + | day. The firing was the most awfully | ||
| + | [horrific? ] I ever heard. There was a report | ||
| + | of a cannon at least every second & | ||
| + | the roar of musketry was continued & | ||
| + | unbroken for two or three hours. Said to be | ||
| + | the hottest battle of the war. I could see | ||
| + | the smoke & the bursting of the shell & | ||
| + | the flash of the guns after dusk – You | ||
| + | answered a good many of my questions in | ||
| + | my last [‘in my last’ struck-through] – please answer the remaining | ||
| + | ones. Kiss the children for me – tell | ||
| + | Charley I will answer his letter soon. | ||
| + | Your devoted husband N[athaniel] V. W[atkins] | ||
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Latest revision as of 16:22, 14 August 2017
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July 10th 1862
Dear Nannie – I got another first rate [‘first rate’ underscored]
letter from you last evening dated July 3[r]d – I was looking for it, & know there is another in R[ich]mond [Virginia] for me now. You have no idea how much good your letters do me. Doc & Sam got long ones from Millie too, Tell Millie & [?] they ought not to [?] letters with [mine?]. Tell Charley I thank him for the little flowers & keep them because he kissed & sent them. You dont know how anxious your letters make me, to come home. Especially when you tell so much about the children, & seem so anxious for me to get a fur- lough. There are so many sick in our company & reg[imen]t, that it will be im- possible for me to come. Seven have died in our reg[imen]t, in the last eight or nine days. I have kept so well the
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whole time, they will be unwilling for
me to go – then most of our men have been absent from home much longer than I have. I was on picket with our com- pany in sight of the battle you heard Tuesday evening – wrote you a letter that day. The firing was the most awfully [horrific? ] I ever heard. There was a report of a cannon at least every second & the roar of musketry was continued & unbroken for two or three hours. Said to be the hottest battle of the war. I could see the smoke & the bursting of the shell & the flash of the guns after dusk – You answered a good many of my questions in my last [‘in my last’ struck-through] – please answer the remaining ones. Kiss the children for me – tell Charley I will answer his letter soon. Your devoted husband N[athaniel] V. W[atkins]
