Camp Washington Beaufort County
N. C.
(Date Nov 10 1861 is on last page)
Beathham River
Dock if you name him a tal you will nam after the Cat
I did not men Bauford this is the Cat name but this is what I want
your boy name Beaufort Warren or Warren Beaufort. this is the prety
name in White I wanted Garlin name it Dock you rot when I rote to
you I mus writ to you & When I writ to linda writ to Verlinda
Dock I will as you say I Shal trust to you to writ me the trouth
Dock I think the way Verlinda rote father will git his Corn and
I will be glad & as to the fodder Just let hit go & Dou
the best you can Dock if you eat them opossums you must be fat you
must next time writ whar you Caut them I am Sorrow that you lost
the fox by think it was Rabbit Dock that is about your speed
but give me hand full ov Chisnuts Dock I have recive 9 letters from
Mt Yonah 3 from you & 1 from Eben 4 from Verlind I recive 1
from you the 7 of this mounth it found us well & well satfide
hoping the few line will find you all well Dock you want me to find
a ferlow I ___ a long way from home Git me back is the thing I hav
bin waning to move some time linda was not will to move & now
I am a way & God for bid ever to see old McCravey a Gin Dock
I have bin mad at old McEver sens I have bin mared & I dont
like the ______ so Dam well
(pg 2) tell Henry & Merida & Jain & Elick &
Mary & Tena to be smarte & feed the calf & duck &
______ & nus that litel boy tell them all farwell for me I think
tha have sow me the last time
I waunt to know how mutch corne I made and how mutch
Father got to his part and what you air all doing I never have heard
from sam yet I wannt you to write about evry thing hogs Couse sheep
chickens gees duck and evry thing els that is passing and I wood
like to know how the women is gitting A long up through thair then
on the other sid of the creak asspeshly them on the othe side of
the crek. i wood like to know how Champion Fergs new ground
corn is over by old mis Freemands and wheather they go over thair
A oposum hunting or not for if I was thair I know that I shood for
I think that the rosen yard is A Bout ready for the coons to Bigin
an and I wood like to know how your _____ ground corn and your turnips
patch is and wheather you will have A nuf sabet for your shucking
or not I want to Be Shour to write to me evry week and not fail
for you don't know half how much good it dos me to set down in my
tent of A knight and read my old letters and it wood do me A heap
more good to read new ons than them old ons Dock, A.F. Merritt gives
you his Best respects and wants yo to write to him for his people
dos not write to him and tell me all the fun So I must clos
at present nothing more at preasent only remains your friend till
death
To: Mr. L. F. Crumley
From: G. M. Jackson
Mt. Yonah
care of Capt. Sumters
White Co. Ga.
Col. McMillins Co.
24 Ga. Reg.
A few words to father
dar fath it tis throug the kind mercys of god that I
have the opportunity of writing to you. You nedd not to be uneasy
about your son Aflred goin to sleap on his post for he likes the
fun of it to well to go to sleap. You wanned to know wheather
Alfred was satisfied or not I never hear him say anything about
home for he is playing marvells and raslen and guning all the time
when he haint driling. Father & mother will you be good to Mc(?)neils
if you cant get a long with the rest Thir was a little Boy hear
las week and I ____ him and he puld my whisker and plade with me
til he went to sleep and you wount to know what we haf to eat we
have corn meal and sum flour and beef and sum hos meat and fish
But no coffey. sou I must cum to A close for I have wrote one to
Ebin and one to liney. and I mist come to a close for I am amost
out.
tell Willum to write
this Nov 10 1861
me a few lines about
G. M. Jackson
the news in cheochee
