to Eliza Cook

Cook, Gustave, 1835-1897 to Eliza Cook

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GLC#
GLC02570.09-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
28 October 1861
Author/Creator
Cook, Gustave, 1835-1897
Title
to Eliza Cook
Place Written
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Pagination
4 p. :
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Writes that he is bored and that nothing is interesting happens. He and a friend (John Weston) have decided to take turns writing home to keep their families posted. Reports that Sam Glascock is very ill but tells Eliza to be careful who she tells. He writes, "Tell all the kin howdye and my friends also. I have not had the first letter from Texas yet except the one by Mr. Kendall. Why don't you all write to me?" He continues, "Well old lady you have not written me the first letter yet and I must punish you for it, so just look out for plenty more from me every week or so until you do write. I know no better way to punish you than to make you read my letters." Written at Camp Johnson.

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