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- GLC#
- GLC03523.32.22-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 18 September 1863
- Author/Creator
- Sayles, Sumner, fl. 1862-1868
- Title
- to Isora Skinkle
- Place Written
- Natchez, Mississippi
- Pagination
- 4 p. : envelope Height: 20.3 cm, Width: 25 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Thanks his sister for the package that she sent him. Inquires if she likes her new mother-in-law. Informs her that he will not be able to get a furlough this year and that he prefers it that way. Writes that he would prefer to wait until he can come home permanently. Believes that the running back and forth only makes "it so much worse than it otherwise would." Discusses a fight between a woman named Mary Gardner and two other gentlemen. Writes, "it is a bad thing to get wounded for ones feelings." The letter has a watermark on the top left hand corner.
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