Alexander, William C. Letters (1862-1865)

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Newton Ills Sept 19th 1865

Mr. C.S. Esqr. E.S. most Honorable Exquisite
Fastidious E.S. Distingue Elegant Abamilaque Brown
I thinq you should lead a small poodle along by a string
after the elapse of something like a month I have the
Pleasure of reading a page from your pen and the
Honor of clamping my own pen in order to give 
you what I call an answer also tell you that
I am of the opinion that no ones ass was ever
shown more planely to me than yours has been
Since I wrote to you last. E.S. I can inform you
plainely that is is not as pleasant to look upon
as a pretty girl and I am of the opinion that you
ought as you said you was to be ashamed of it
but as you seemed to be penitent I can only say
enter thou into the joys of my good humor for I
am perfectly reconciled and freely forgive you for
this offence but you must remember the pasage of holy
writ which says the Lord will not bear with our
transgressions always. how much less then can frail
man bear with the transgressions of his neighbor I was very
glad to read your letter it had been so long since I
received a line from you and now let me say I do think
you might afford to answer my letters as soon as you get
if you knew how much good it done me to get a letter from
home you would not wait so long I am bound to think for
I realy believe you a firm friend of mine and it is not
with me now as it was when I was in the army for you know I
was all the time drunk then and did not think so much
about home and besides I was with an hundred men all the
time and now I am all alone and have not drunk a

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drop since I was paid off and mustered out the service and
some times when I am in my room and all alone if I was
not too stout-hearted I could cry then you can only imagine
How a long letter from you revives me up and causes me to
extend my sides also my lungs therefore I am blessed with good
Health and I think that under these circumstances you ought to answer
according to the afore mentioned rules. The day we were paid off
I swore off and said I would not drink any more until I returned 
to [biz?] & what I say I am very apt to do as you very well know
I am going to School now commenced the 13th inst this term will
end the 12th Dec. and I am sometimes nearly persuaded to
come home Christmas but don’t expect I will but let me in-
form you I am not going to make my home in this hole unless
I can make more money here than elsewhere but where I can
make a Dollar after education there I shall take up my abode
and as you spoke of there being boreing for silver at old Bill
Coles if they find it I shall take up my abode in the bottom
of the hole bored provided I can get the chance for I assure you
it is an article that I would not break my neck trying to get
away from for I candidly do not bear any hatred or malice
towards the stuff and as many makes the more go these times
one should have the article if he desires the more when I say
article I do not wish you to understand me as speaking of 
the word (the anora) but the ready cash such article as one
can swap for that [fulcrum?] or a shirt to clamp on his
Back when I say back I mean all the rear parts from 
the neck to the ass inclusive

Pellie is at Mr. Mayors clerking now he is boarding here
he got in yesterday morning for five months and if
you think he aint awkward and don’t look like a stout

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Fool behind the counter you think wrong for if ever 
I saw any one look like he was at the rong place or 
as if he was beshit a mile from water it is him and now 
Prepare your secret bag draw the [finickering?] string on this
and never tell it and I will tell you a secret that will 
make you extend your sides a very small pinch and this 
is it while he was at work for Mr. Nigh he (Nigh) hired a 
girl and she being very freckled and red headed Pellie took 
an Ideah into his head that she would frig so upon this
conclusion he acted and one night she went out to milk 
after dark and one of the cows was wild so she drove her 
in the stable to milk her and when she went in Pellie 
Brought up the rear and went in too and by the way F..ked 
Her well the next night he desired to do the same trick over
again so when she went into the milk house to put 
the milk away he went in to and asked her for it and she 
getting very wrathy not wishing to be fucked every night 
ordered him to leave or she would lay the crack up against 
his head and this not being the reception he expected or 
desired he waxed warm also and quite a dificulty and the 
Following conversation in a tone of voice louder that one usually 
speaks on that suject ensued {Girl} go away from here Pellie 
or I will knock you down and tell Mrs Nigh {Brown} tell & 
be damned that wont mend the matter {Girl} well you go 
way and let me alone {Brown} you go to hell and kiss my 
ass {Girl} git out of here I say or I will tell Mrs Nigh 
{Brown} go to hell you damned hore I fucked you last night 
and what is the reason I cant tonight {Girl} you are a liar 
you done no such thing  at this point Nigh appeared and 
Pellie vanished be it remembered the milk house was close

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to the dwelling and it was all heard in the house but 
Nigh is a man that don’t blame no man for doing such 
things where they can get the chance but will not keep a whore 
in his house so he sent the gal off and told the joke 
on Pellie and we have bored him near to death ever 
since don’t say anything about this for Pellie has asked me 
not to tell any of you of it but I could not refrain 
from discloseing to you thinking you would not mention 
it to any one which I ask you not to do and when I 
come home we will have a jolly side extension over it 

Well as for Mat Baily he is a fool if he thinks the Rebs 
are not whipped and all I have to say is that any one 
who says they are not whipped or that the constitutional 
amendment is worse than secession is a liar and if the 
Lord don’t think any more of him than I he is in a bad 
fix for I would not care if they were all in the place that is 
the same direction from  us that our feet is from our heads 
and Mat with them I am getting nearer Abolationist every 
Day and I hope that every nigger will be set free that is in 
Ky not that I have any hard feelings towards my old home 
no for all the fuss I ever had since Ive been here was for 
my adopted state when I heard a man say that there was no 
union men in Ky and that it was as mean a rebble state 
as there was south of the ohio River I told him any man 
that said it was a liar and a majority of the Newton Boys
Backed me in it but because I hate Rebs and I want there 
niggers set free ... but I guess you are tired of reading 
this and I will stop I could write all night but wont do 
it so write soon and a long note to your old friend 
Correspondent associate and chum 

Will C. A

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P.S. in your next tell me who Mollie Hollice is where she came 
from where she is staying who her Dadie is when she came to that neighborhood 
if she is pretty how big her tities are will she fuck and is your ass open

[written across the left side of page 4]
Wm. C. Alexander
19 Sep. 1865