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Serg. G. W. Chery Co B
45 Regiment Ala Vols [postmark]
Mrs. F E Cherry
Opelika
Russel Co
Ala
Ma's Family is Well
F E C
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Hospital at Lauderdale Springs Miss July 6 1863
Dear Fannie Our regiment having orders to be
prepared for a march at a moments notice, I being
one of the sick and not able to march have -
been sent back to this place. I have been pretty
sick with I don't know what and am now -
pretty sick I can however walk about the House and
go out doors when I want to but it tires me.
I think I am going to be tolerably well treated
here and am not annoyed by so much -
dust and noise as I would be in camp
The water here is good and most any kind of
mineral water you can think of I think our -
regiment sent to this place nearly two hundred sick
to the hospital a great many of them are not verry
sick but too sick to march or too weak. When you
write direct your letter to me at Lauderdale
Springs Miss. I would very much like to see you
our children and Em and Mother and -
sisters families and I hope I shall some
time to come and maybe pretty soon would it
not be a happy time let us hope and trust
in good for a happy meeting -
Train our little ones kindly and firmly
Yours in Earnest
G. W. Cherry
I got a good cot to lie on
Cherry Family Civil War Letters
