Paul, Miles W. to Celicia Paul
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03058.09 Author/Creator: Paul, Miles W. Place Written: Camp Humphrey, Virginia Type: Autograph letter Date: 15 March 1863 Pagination: 4 p. ; 20.0 x 12.3 cm Order a Copy
Some words throughout the letter are illegible because of water damage. Paul writes that he had a toothache and his badly decayed tooth had to be pulled. He informs Celicia that he will not write some friends in Muncy because they do not write him. He then talks of his friend Thode, and that Thode's wife Margaret is worried that he will be drafted. Paul writes that "the single men must go furst then Comes the maried men," and he does not think that Thode will be drafted. He then responds to his wife saying that she is lonely in their house and that he wishes he could be back with her. Then he assures her that she has not been complaining too much, although he does not think it would be a good idea to sell their property to buy a substitute if he were drafted. In closing, he writes of other men from Muncy who he is serving with.
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