Letter to Sarah Garibaldi (Poor)

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Written from "Camp Allen, Clarke County," Virginia. Letter regards camp life, payday, and rumors of enemy movements.

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English

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Camp Allen, Clarke County, VA.
November 2, 1862

Dear Wife
With this opportunity I set myself down to let you know that I am well at this time and hope that when these few lines will come to hand may find you enjoying the same blessing. I thought I set down this morning to write you these few lines in order to tell you where and how to direct your answers, being that I think I forgot it on my last letter. It is very hard to get paper to write, envelops or postage stamps either. I couldn't a postage stamp in the company and I had to tear a leaf off an old book in order to write you this letter and I am bound to send it without prepayment.

We are soon to have a pay day, and I have about one hundred and fifty dollars of which, if I can get a chance, I want send you one hundred and thirty, and if I don't get chance to send them to you I intend to take a French furlow and fetch them home myself if I can.

I have no news whatever to write to you now. Everything is peacable in the camp, but I don't know how long it will remain so. There has been cannonading heard this morning in the direction of Harpers Ferry, and it is said that the enemy is crossing large force over the Potomac. We don't get chance to see any newspaper at all and have no news to tell you at present. You must write to me as often as you can for I am very glad to hear from you at all times. Dear I am lonesome for you and would like to be with you, but I hope that the Lord will spare my life long enough to come home again and to see peace restored once more in our country. But there ain't much sign of peace now for I heard the cannons whilst I am writing. The following shall be the dirction with which you shall send me your letter.
Mr. John Garibaldi
27th Va. Regt. Company C.
Care of Captain C. L. Haynes
First Brigade
Jackson's Division

Nothing more at present but to remain your affectionate husband untill death. John Garibaldi.

To Sarah A. Garibaldi. Give my best respects to the whole of the family. I haven't been able to see George yet.

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Confederate States of America. Army—Virginia Infantry Regiment, 27th
Correspondence

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