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- GLC#
- GLC02715.066-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 14 August 1863
- Author/Creator
- Epperly, Christian M., 1837-1904
- Title
- to Mary Epperly
- Place Written
- New Bells Bridge, Tennessee
- Pagination
- 4 p. :
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Mentions that many men desert daily. Says that the loneliness is almost impossible to bare. If everyone else deserts, then he will too. Notes that they are near a paper mill and paper is very cheap. Adds his thoughts about the future of the Confederacy. "I dont believe in staying with the smallist [sic] and I think Session [sic] is amost [sic] dide [sic]out. I beleave [sic] it would a been a grate [sic] thing for us if it never had been a live."
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