Letter to sisters

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Written from Shelbyville, Tennessee. Letter regards life at camp and personal matters.

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English

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Shelbyville Tenn. June 16th 1863

Dear Sisters,
I seat my self to write you all a few lines and let you know how I am getting along. I am well at this time the co. is in very good health Capt. Nall is sick but I think not very bad. It is a very pretty day. Their has bin a heap of ruin here but not enough to hurt anything. Corn looks very nice up here and wheat is very good it is nearly ripe enough to cut now. I think we will get plenty of flour after a while now. Jess is at work about three miles from here on the brest works he has bin up their now about a week but he can come down here most evry day they don't have to work but three hours a day I have worked up their two days we are building powerful works up here there is about five or six hundred men at work their evry day. I don't think that the Yankees can run us from them when we get them done. I got the bottle of honey you sent by Mr. [Hooten] and they it was good was a sight. We had some biscuits and butter to eat with it and that was good enough. I begin to think now that I won't get home time enough to eat peaches and watermelons but I hope it won't be long before we can all go home. I have no news to write you must all to me as often as you can. Mr. [Houten] and Doctor Roberts can tell you all about us all. Well I have to go and drill. So I will close nothing more at present.
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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