Letter to sisters

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Written from Shelbyville, Tennessee. Letter regards John R. Hurley's health, the health of some of his fellow soldiers, life at camp, and personal matters.

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English

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April 18 1863
Shelbyville Tenn

Well Puss Lize and [H] I will write a little to you all again as Mr. Park is here and going to start back in the morning. I am in tolerable good health at this time I have had a very bad rizing on the back of my neck but it is getting well now. I haven't done any deauty in three or four days but I am ready for deauty again now. I can't think of any thing to write that will interest you. You said if you was me and Lieut. Roberts got married you would get maried to. I dinot no he was going to mary or had any notion of it but there is some very prety girls up here. I would not blame him mutch if her was to mary up here but I don't think he will. Well I will write about something else. It is a very prety day to day has bin prety weather for some time it has bin right cold for the last week until to day. Their has big frosts every morning they are cleaning up the camps here to day. Their so much smoke I cant hardly see. We just moved here day before yesterday we have moved back to the brigade. The Co. is in very health. Capt. Nall is not very well I believe the rest is all well. Cicero and Henry Satcher is as fat as hogs. I saw Bob Sheels last Sunday he is hearty. Well I write so often I cant think of any thing to write so I will quit you must all write to me. So nothing more.
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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