Letter to sisters

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Written from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Letter regards march to Chattanooga, health of fellow soldiers, and life at camp.

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English

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Camp Chatanooga July 7th 1863

Dear Sisters,
I seat my self to write you a few lines to let you no how I am getting along. I am in tolerable health. I stood the march very well until we got about twenty five miles of this place and their came a rising on my foot and I had to take the train. My foot is in a very bad fix yet but it is getting better. I can walk on it very well now. The boys all stood it tolerable well but a few. William Mills he fell out before we got to Tullahoma and we haven't heard a word from him yet. I haven't seen Jess in four days he got on the train about 30 or 40 miles above here to go to Beige fort we thought then we were all going their. He was sick then a little they then sent him down here to Chattanooga and put him in the camp of direction but I haven't seen him. He is about a mile from he is very sick but I need not write about him for I no he has written two or three times before now. We marched from Shelbyville to Tullahoma the first day that was last Saturday was a week then lay their a Sunday and a monday morning we went in to line of battle behind the brest works and lay there untill tuesday night about midnight and it rained nearly all the time and it has rained evry day I believe since we started and it is raining now. I have marched across the Cumberland mountain but I never want to see it again. I lost all my clothes but what I had on. I toted my napsack about half way and put it in Dick Mitchell's waggon and it broke down and he had to leave it and my things is gon I want you to send me some clothes as soon as you can. Send me a shirt and a pair of drawers and a pair of pants that will do for a while. I kept my socks. The talk is now that we will go to Vicksburg I don't know what we will do. I don't think we will stay here long though I don't know. I have seen Walker and Wills Sorrell they were in very good health. [?] I will send you this ring. Well it is so wet I will quit so nothing more this time. Write soon and I will try to write more next time if I could see you I could tell you a bushell. Send my clothes as soon as you can.
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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