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[page 1] 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 [page 2] 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 [page 3] 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 [page 4] 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 [written across the top of page 4] 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
Object Description
Title | Alexander, William C. Letters (1862-1865) |
Creator | Alexander, William C. |
LC Subject Headings |
Alexander, William C. United States. Army. Kentucky Infantry Regiment, 52nd (1861-1865) United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 |
EOA Categories |
History – 1838-1874: Sectionalism, the Civil War and Reconstruction Peoples --Military Life Government and Politics -- Military |
Description | This collection contains two letters from Alexander, to his cousin E. S. Brown. Alexander, an Illinois native, served with the 52nd Kentucky Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. |
Digital Publisher | Auburn University Libraries |
Date | 1865-09-19; 1865-10-09 |
Original Format | 2 letters |
Type | Text |
Format | |
Original Item ID | RG 0140 |
Rights | This image is the property of the Auburn University Libraries and is intended for non-commercial use. Users of the image are asked to acknowledge the Auburn University Libraries. For information about obtaining high-resolution copies of this and other images in this collection, please contact the Auburn University Libraries Special Collections & Archives Department at archives@auburn.edu or (334) 844-1732. |
Relation With | www.american-south.org |
Finding Aid | http://content.lib.auburn.edu/u?/findingaids,33 |
Language | eng |
File Name | Alexander WC letters_1.pdf; Alexander WC letters_2.pdf |
Collection | William C. Alexander letters |
Repository | Auburn University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives. |
Submitted by | Thornton, Linda; Coates, Midge |
Description
Title | 1865-09-19: Alexander, William C., to E. S. Brown, E. S., Letter |
Creator | Alexander, William C. |
LC Subject Headings |
Alexander, William C. United States. Army. Kentucky Infantry Regiment, 52nd (1861-1865) United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 |
EOA Categories |
History – 1838-1874: Sectionalism, the Civil War and Reconstruction Peoples --Military Life Government and Politics -- Military |
Description | This collection contains two letters from Alexander, to his cousin E. S. Brown. Alexander, an Illinois native, served with the 52nd Kentucky Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. |
Digital Publisher | Auburn University Libraries |
Date | 1865-09-19 |
Original Format | 1 letter |
Type | Text |
Format | |
Original Item ID | RG 0140 |
Rights | This image is the property of the Auburn University Libraries and is intended for non-commercial use. Users of the image are asked to acknowledge the Auburn University Libraries. For information about obtaining high-resolution copies of this and other images in this collection, please contact the Auburn University Libraries Special Collections & Archives Department at archives@auburn.edu or (334) 844-1732. |
Relation With | www.american-south.org |
Finding Aid | http://content.lib.auburn.edu/u?/findingaids,33 |
Language | eng |
File Name | Alexander WC letters_1.pdf |
Collection | William C. Alexander letters |
Repository | Auburn University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives. |
Submitted by | Thornton, Linda; Coates, Midge |
Transcript | [page 1] 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 [page 2] 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 [page 3] 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 [page 4] 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 [written across the top of page 4] 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 |