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This file was contributed by: Linda Harris Weefuddled@aol.com ==================================================================== Camp 39 Regt Ga Vols March 6th/64 Dear Wife, As the heavens smiles upon this blessed sabbath day & the birds sing so sweet, I aval myself to write you a letter in answer to yours of the 24th [?] of March & after having faild to gave you an immediate answer I now hasen to respond. I was glad to here from you that you was well and all the Rest But was sorry to here of the capture of Giburts and Capt Middleton & others & Was mutch more Sorry to here of Uncle Robert being wounded I hope he may get well & gets home [ illegible ] I hope his father will be able to get to him & assist him. Lou I would have wrote to you before now but I had just wrote you a leter & directed it to coosaville in care of Floyd Hutgins I hope you have read it by this time. & another Reason is that William Johnson is trying to get a Furlow he has sent up an aplication if it be approved he will start about teusday I hope he will get it he is geting it on Marion Hogg as a Recruit he aspects to get him 40 days and him 20 and John 20 page two Louisa I hope the boys will get there furlow for they are good solgers and ought to have a furlow as well as some of the rest of us if they got there furlow on a recruit I want you to get one for me if you can possibly do so and if not I want Billy and John to gave me 6 or 10 days on therse. I have a [illegible] Rote and approved just ready to go tomorrow morning to your uncle cit and if Biles furlow comes before I get back ill get him to carry this and then ill write you [illegible] in [illegible] few days and if not ill send it if he gets it tuesday and allso write whether I found uncle Cit or not. Lou I hope you have purchased that land & got the title if you hant you had better do so not withstanding it maint be worth mutch more than the mair & mule but the money aint mutch account So take the land & get the title & bonds & see that they are all rite & that there is no exicutions againt the land tell Pa to Pay all & ill Pay him & pay it now before the first of April For the money will have to be funded then & you just pay if of[f] page three Louisa This is monday eaving Rather cloudy & coole I have just returned from the 19th Ark I lerned there from one of your uncles mess mates & all so from the sergeon that your Uncle Cit is dead he died the 14th of Feby he was taken verry sudent He was taken the 10th and died 14th from the best information that I could get - & Mr. Lane his mess mate told me he was with him when he was taken & waited on him until he died & that everything was done for him that could be & that the doctors tride to save him but failed he was taken with the side Pluracy & it termined the [illegible] Pnesemony He was burried neatly. he was buried at Tunnell Hill in the soldiers burying ground his name was Registered on the headboard he was burried not far from the town of tunnell hill Mr lane sayd he thought it was north of tunnell hill he was fatagued & didnt go to the burying Mr Lane says he saw your gran Pa when he came up with Cit Perhaps he recollects Mr Lane I think he is a gentleman & he was a friend to Cit Cits Captin returned to Arkansas & carried his Effects to his wife he would have wrote to you but the mail Rout was not open I am so sorry that his parents could not here from him till now I hope you will get this & that it will gave all of you satisfaction when I write to you I do not mean you a love but to all William may get his furlow tonight & he may not get it till tomorrow night & maby not a tall but if he does ill send this by him & if not ill send it by mail to coosa in care of F G Hutgins & for him to forward it to melville I think that is the shurest plan you must comply with my request if you can about the land & all so about the recruit if billy gets his furlow & could get one on the same term Lou there was a man shot in our Regt this afternoon but thank god I didnt have to witness the seane they ware gon before I returned from town I will not write anymore now I am well & I hope & trust you the same Lut King got a leter from his wife stateing that Henry ball has the small pox but I hope its not so I am your true husband till Death A M Sewell 39th Regt Ga Vols March Wednes 23/64 Dear Wife taking all things in concideration I deem it necissary to write you again I wrote you a litle 22 by Losen eln but failed to get any leter This mail [will] write [illegible] I am Well at present I will be pleased to here that you all are well but at the same time I am afraid that you are sick and waiting to get well before you write but I hope it is not the case williams time will be out next wednesday and I am sure to get a leter when he comes but I am as anxious as ever I was to get a leter form you and if it is posable that you have then [illegible] you must reat it the best you can be sure not to Eat any grease nor coold water and get the best information you can in treating the cases the Last account was that you had smal [pox] in the naborhood but it cerainly isent so Louisa you wrote to me by tome hall that you thought you could get a Recruit or too if ou could get too I could get 80 days On them there is the same chance for 2 as for one Dr Loll D Ring says that his neighbor Mrs. Montgumrey has a son that will have to go to the war and he thinks he will come to our company. go and se Mrs king and see the young man and all so Mr. Saterfield and Mr. Lidee has sons and perhaps you can get one of them Tell Pa to go and see cooly Ead morison or some one that is capable of telling him whether he is a loud to stay at home under the present act of Congress or not I hope he is it says something about Detailing or ememting such men as had furnished soldiers wives with provisions and maid so mutch to spare to the guvernment I dont Exactly understand i t But I hope he is excused by the Board of Doctors. Lou Congress has past an act Declaring all persons from the age of 18 to 45 no in survice in for during the war and all from 17 to 18 and 45 to 50 in State Survice and not to go out of the State. Write to me and let me know how you all are geting along and where you all are I would like to get a leter. Every week Some of the boys gets leters the second day after they are mailed at summerville by W. brumley got one today wrote 21 and this is 23 marion mas got one the same date Write soon and oftin Send them any way you can Send me all you can by billy I am Your Friend and Loving Husband till Death A M Sewell to L F Sewell