Letter to father

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Written from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Letter regards John R. Hurley's health and life at camp.

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Chattanooga Tenn July 8th 1863

Dear Father,
I seat my self to write you a few lines to let you no how I am getting along. I am in tolerable good health at this time only I have a bad rising on my foot but it is getting better now it will be well in a few days now. We have had a bad time for the last two weeks. We didn't get more than half enoug to eat on the march and what little we got didn't have time to cook it nor nothing to cook it in. I thought when we got to Tullahoma we would be shure to fight I never saw such a stir as their was the day we went into the line of battle they marched us about two miles in double quick. Jess is not gon to the hospital he is at the convalesent camps here at town. Mr. Dennis went to see him to day he is not very sick but you have heard from him before now. It is raining here yet I never saw so mutch rain in my life and we hant got many tents in our company we have to take the rain as it comes but we have all got used to it now and we don't mind it much now. I hope we wont never have to take nary nother march but I don't expect we will stay here long. We here to day that Vicksburg has bin taken but we don't know whether or it is so or not. I have no news to write you can hear every thing as soon as we can. We had cabag and cucumbers for dinner and will have irish potatoes for supper. We get a plenty of bacon and flour and meal. I am in a mess with John Dennis Mat Hall and Lieut. Hooten. I saw Walker and Willis Sorrell. They are in the Sixth Florida Reg in Buckner's Division I suppose they have gone back to Knoxville where they have come from they are both fat. Bill is dead I forget now where they said he died at. Well it is going to rain so I must quit. Write soon as you get this. Send my clothes as soon as you can. 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
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