1863-01-25: Williams, Felix J., to Brothers & Sisters, Letter |
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Camp Greg Jan the 25th 1863
Brothers & Sisters
I seat my self to write
you a few lines to let you know
that I am well as to health and
I am doing fine I have plenty to eat such as beef Bacon Pickled
Pork and flour bread. and Ginger
cakes candy sugar apples
I have nothing worth
writing to you I just thought
that I would write you a few
lines to pass a way time I want
you to write to me all of you
that can for I would love to
see a coppy of A B C from any
of you so write to me often
with out fail
you have no Idea
how I would love to see you all
but it wont do to get me sick
here I have just so [text missing] head
to take any thing [text missing] it
be what it may and go with
my Regment till I [text missing] or till
I can get off like [illegible]
Write to me often all of you
and care not what it costs for
the satis faction it is to me to
get a letter from home is worth 5
dollars so fare well F J Wms to his brothers & sisters
Object Description
Description
| Title | 1863-01-25: Williams, Felix J., to Brothers & Sisters, Letter |
| Creator | Williams, Felix J., 1844-1863 |
| LC Subject Headings |
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Williams, Felix J., 1844-1863 Mickle, W. N. Douglass, D. H. Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 37th Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863 |
| EOA Categories |
History -- 1838-1874: Sectionalism, the Civil War and Reconstruction Peoples -- Military Life Government & Politics -- Military |
| Description | This collection contains two letters from Private Felix J. Williams of Company K, 37th North Carolina Infantry, to his parents, brothers, and sisters during the Civil War. The letters date from early 1863, and describe camp life. In addition, the collection contains two letters, from Lieutenant W. N. Mickle and D. H. Douglass, to Williams’s parents, describing the circumstances of his death in the Battle of Chancellorsville in May 1863. One of the letters comments on Williams’s religious state at the time of his death. |
| Digital Publisher | Auburn University Libraries |
| Date | 1863-01-25 |
| Original Format | 1 letter |
| Type | Text |
| Format | |
| Original Item ID | RG 1124, Box 1, Folder 58 |
| Rights | These images are the property of the Auburn University Libraries and are intended for non-commercial use. Users of the images are asked to acknowledge the Auburn University Libraries. For information about obtaining high-resolution copies of these and other images in this collection, please contact the Auburn University Libraries Special Collections & Archives Department at archives@auburn.edu or (334) 844-1732. |
| Language | eng |
| File Name | Williams FJ letters_1.pdf |
| Collection | John and Faye Vick Collection |
| Repository | Auburn University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives. |
| Submitted by | McRae, David R.; Coates, Midge |
| Transcript | [page 1] Camp Greg Jan the 25th 1863 Brothers & Sisters I seat my self to write you a few lines to let you know that I am well as to health and I am doing fine I have plenty to eat such as beef Bacon Pickled Pork and flour bread. and Ginger cakes candy sugar apples I have nothing worth writing to you I just thought that I would write you a few lines to pass a way time I want you to write to me all of you that can for I would love to see a coppy of A B C from any of you so write to me often with out fail you have no Idea how I would love to see you all but it wont do to get me sick here I have just so [text missing] head to take any thing [text missing] it be what it may and go with my Regment till I [text missing] or till I can get off like [illegible] Write to me often all of you and care not what it costs for the satis faction it is to me to get a letter from home is worth 5 dollars so fare well F J Wms to his brothers & sisters |
