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[page 1] Fort Lincoln, Md. Feb 8th 1862 Dear Father I received your kind letter of Jan. 20th a few days ago and you may be sure that I was very glad to hear from home again. I was very glad to hear that you were all well, and specially that your health had improved since you wrote before. My health is good except a bad cold that I have had for a few days, but my health has been first rate all the while past and I hope it will continue so. I was very glad to know that Mother’s health is so good as it is. I hope this will find you all well and getting along nicely. I received Mother’s letter in due time and I wrote to her since I dare say she has got it before this time I wrote to Thaddeus but I have [page 2] not had any from him since I have not had any letter from John nor Wm this long time I think they might write once in a while. I wrote to Wm about a fortnight ago I think it was I may get word from him soon. I did not get your letter so soon as I had ought to I had ought to have got it the last of Jan and then I should have written a week agoe today so it makes it a week later before you can get an answer from me, than it would have been if yours had come to hand as soon as it should. I am glad you have got my box of clothes I am glad they went safe and did not get hurt I think they were worth sending home you will understand that they are not such as I wear, but they were given to me while I was on davids Island N.Y. the coat is quite good looking but I dont expect it will wear very well. [page 3] the pants I think are quite good. the old pants are my first pair I drawed in Augusta last winter and that is some of my mending that coton jacket was my stable jacket cavalry & mounted Batteries are furnished with those on purpose to tend horses in. those shoes are a pair that I bought after I was payed off last July and I wore them through the summer and I thought they would not be of much benefit out here this winter in the mud so I sent them home that neckerchief is the one I wore from home & that cap is the first one I drawed in Augusta. I kept some of the clothes that I got but the most of them I did not need, so you see that I do not lack for clothes those books are Johns he lent me that little one when I went away. Oh about those peach stones I sent them for some of you to try your luck in making a ring I made that one that I sent I should like to hear from the boys in the woods. I am glad they have got a good crew and get along so well. you say that you suppose I have seen Bela before this time. I would say I have not seen him yet, I ment to have gone to see him before this time but something would turn out every time to prevent me but I mean to go just as soon as I can. You want to know how Rurges does his health is very much improved since he left maine and he gets along well I guess but I do not make any more talk with him than if he was an entire stranger, he is a Lieu. now and I dont pretend to crawl around any of the oficers or hardly [page 4] speak to them unless they ask me a question. I do not think enough of them to be any ways familiar with them We neve have had what we enlisted for and since we left maine there has neve been a very good feeling existing between the oficers nor between men & oficers there has neve been any great trouble but a dissatis- faction. We have about one hundred men now some having died and a great many discharged you think there might be a few christians in this Battery I dare say there is some good men but we are not favored with a preacher and our privaledges are few. I go to meeting once in a while but it so happens that I get your letters generaly Satardays and then I have to write sundays or els you would not get them next sat. you want to know how we spend our sabboths some go to meeting and some go one place and some another. George Dightman is sick in N.Y. on Davids Island you want to know who mends & washes my clothes. I do my own washing & mending. I can ge clothes any time that I want them I think I wrote in Mothers the particulars concerning clothing I am in hopes to be payed off soon if you need any money you know where to find it help your self you must be careful of old Burrell I never would have given him so much I wish I had that honey that you let old rascal have so Helen Rining has go a baby has she well she is right enough in saying it is Georges I guess. I wonder that she went clear as long as she ded for I have known of Geo & her tricks but dont let any of them know that I said so What will Nathan say & wher is George Thaddeus wrote me that he had gone away give my love to all this from your son Jason S. Doten
Object Description
Title | Doten, Jason L. Letters (1862) |
Creator | Doten, Jason L. |
LC Subject Headings |
Doten, Jason L. United States. Army. Maine Light Artillery, 1st battalion (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 | These are letters (7) Jason Doten wrote to his parents during 1862. Doten served with the Maine Light Artillery, 1st battalion during the Civil War. |
Digital Publisher | Auburn University Libraries |
Date | 1862-02-02/1862-10-18 |
Original Format | 7 letters, various sizes |
Type | Text |
Format | PDFs |
Original Item ID | RG 0343 |
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,409 |
Language | eng |
Collection | Jason L. Doten Papers |
Repository | Auburn University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives. |
Submitted by | Galati, Leslie Ann; Thornton, Linda; Coates, Midge |
Description
Title | 1862-02-08: Doten, Jason L., to Father, Letter |
Creator | Doten, Jason L. |
LC Subject Headings |
Doten, Jason L. United States. Army. Maine Light Artillery, 1st battalion (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 | These are letters (7) Jason Doten wrote to his parents during 1862. Doten served with the Maine Light Artillery, 1st battalion during the Civil War. |
Digital Publisher | Auburn University Libraries |
Date | 1862-02-08 |
Original Format | 1 letter |
Type | Text |
Format | PDFs |
Original Item ID | RG 0343 |
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,409 |
Language | eng |
File Name | Doten letters_1.pdf |
Collection | Jason L. Doten Papers |
Repository | Auburn University Libraries. Special Collections and Archives. |
Submitted by | Galati, Leslie Ann; Thornton, Linda; Coates, Midge |
Transcript | [page 1] Fort Lincoln, Md. Feb 8th 1862 Dear Father I received your kind letter of Jan. 20th a few days ago and you may be sure that I was very glad to hear from home again. I was very glad to hear that you were all well, and specially that your health had improved since you wrote before. My health is good except a bad cold that I have had for a few days, but my health has been first rate all the while past and I hope it will continue so. I was very glad to know that Mother’s health is so good as it is. I hope this will find you all well and getting along nicely. I received Mother’s letter in due time and I wrote to her since I dare say she has got it before this time I wrote to Thaddeus but I have [page 2] not had any from him since I have not had any letter from John nor Wm this long time I think they might write once in a while. I wrote to Wm about a fortnight ago I think it was I may get word from him soon. I did not get your letter so soon as I had ought to I had ought to have got it the last of Jan and then I should have written a week agoe today so it makes it a week later before you can get an answer from me, than it would have been if yours had come to hand as soon as it should. I am glad you have got my box of clothes I am glad they went safe and did not get hurt I think they were worth sending home you will understand that they are not such as I wear, but they were given to me while I was on davids Island N.Y. the coat is quite good looking but I dont expect it will wear very well. [page 3] the pants I think are quite good. the old pants are my first pair I drawed in Augusta last winter and that is some of my mending that coton jacket was my stable jacket cavalry & mounted Batteries are furnished with those on purpose to tend horses in. those shoes are a pair that I bought after I was payed off last July and I wore them through the summer and I thought they would not be of much benefit out here this winter in the mud so I sent them home that neckerchief is the one I wore from home & that cap is the first one I drawed in Augusta. I kept some of the clothes that I got but the most of them I did not need, so you see that I do not lack for clothes those books are Johns he lent me that little one when I went away. Oh about those peach stones I sent them for some of you to try your luck in making a ring I made that one that I sent I should like to hear from the boys in the woods. I am glad they have got a good crew and get along so well. you say that you suppose I have seen Bela before this time. I would say I have not seen him yet, I ment to have gone to see him before this time but something would turn out every time to prevent me but I mean to go just as soon as I can. You want to know how Rurges does his health is very much improved since he left maine and he gets along well I guess but I do not make any more talk with him than if he was an entire stranger, he is a Lieu. now and I dont pretend to crawl around any of the oficers or hardly [page 4] speak to them unless they ask me a question. I do not think enough of them to be any ways familiar with them We neve have had what we enlisted for and since we left maine there has neve been a very good feeling existing between the oficers nor between men & oficers there has neve been any great trouble but a dissatis- faction. We have about one hundred men now some having died and a great many discharged you think there might be a few christians in this Battery I dare say there is some good men but we are not favored with a preacher and our privaledges are few. I go to meeting once in a while but it so happens that I get your letters generaly Satardays and then I have to write sundays or els you would not get them next sat. you want to know how we spend our sabboths some go to meeting and some go one place and some another. George Dightman is sick in N.Y. on Davids Island you want to know who mends & washes my clothes. I do my own washing & mending. I can ge clothes any time that I want them I think I wrote in Mothers the particulars concerning clothing I am in hopes to be payed off soon if you need any money you know where to find it help your self you must be careful of old Burrell I never would have given him so much I wish I had that honey that you let old rascal have so Helen Rining has go a baby has she well she is right enough in saying it is Georges I guess. I wonder that she went clear as long as she ded for I have known of Geo & her tricks but dont let any of them know that I said so What will Nathan say & wher is George Thaddeus wrote me that he had gone away give my love to all this from your son Jason S. Doten |