Letter to sisters

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Written from Tupelo, Mississippi. Letter regards John R. Hurley's health, the health of some of his fellow soldiers, and personal matters.

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English

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Tupelo Mississippi
June 10th 1862

Dear Sisters,
I seat my self to write you a few lines to let you no that I am getting well I have had the measles but they never hurt me much I staid in the hospital a week but I am at camps now. I reccon you thought I wold not write at all but I haven't had the chance to write before. You have heard that Dick was dead I reckon he died last Saturday was a week I was sick and they would not let me see him buried he was buried at a church at Saltillo about six miles above here he had the measles he took them about the time we left Opelika. The Doctor wanted him to stay at Mobile but he said he had rather go on. Jess [Stop] had the measles and he staid in montgomery and I hav't heard from him since. There is several of them Sick Postell and Tom Dickey has got the mumps. I have seen Will Jackson he told me to tell you all that he was not in very good health but he was getting well. Loves Co. is here clos to us I have not seen any of them my self but some of the boys has bin over there. Bob Shels is well. We move easy two or three days. We are about forty miles from Corinth this is a very prety contry here but water is very Scarce here it is cool here of nights. There is thousands of Soldiers here. I would be glad to see you all but I expect it will be a long time before I can see you though I hope I will see you al some time. I can't write much now I must quit. I will write again soon you must write to me direct your letter to tupelo Miss. Co. A. 39 Reg. Ala.
J.R. Hurley

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Confederate States of America. Army—Alabama Infantry Regiment, 39th
United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Personal narratives—Confederate
Correspondence

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