Jones, Joseph (fl. 1862-1865) to Nancy E. Jones
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02739.008 Author/Creator: Jones, Joseph (fl. 1862-1865) Place Written: [Camp Terry] Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 3 September 1862 Pagination: 4 p. Order a Copy
No news from home; will leave for either Cincinnati or Kentucky tomorrow.
Wednesday evening
3 day 1862
the note has come in this evening one letter for george couper from indianna best no one gets any news yet from home but I wil stil continue to write I shal continue to write until I get word from you. I don't know whether you are all alive or not but I trust you are in the [obscured] care and protection of almity god. I don't expect to see you very soon but if we never see each other on earth any more we can rejoice in hope of meeting each other in heaven where troubles never comes tomorrow we wil leave here and go to the [illegible] land perhaps to cincinnati or Kentucky. I am determined to be a bold soldier, both for my country and my god. Read to yourself and keep to yourself secret all that I have to regret is that I did two often get vexed at you in a pet but I ask your pardon for I never met any harm. I love you beter everyday. I want you to take care of your self so that you may live to ? your children right although I expect to get back home again. I wil again tel you a little better. ? to direct your letters. It must be [illegible] done because we are going to leve this place. I never could rite before when it w[illegible] I must stop al at once for it is so dark that I cannot see to read it nomore that if I w[illegible]
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