Letter to Sarah Garibaldi (Poor)

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Written from Camp "Stonewall Brigade." Letter regards life in camp.

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English

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Camp Stonewall Brigade
August 14, 1863

Dear Wife
With these few lines I come to let you know that I am well and hope that when these few lines will come to hands they may find you enjoying the same blessings. I have written to you three or four letters since we crossed the Potomac for which I haven't yet received any answer, only them two that I got from John Tingler and they were no answer to the ones I wrote to you.

We are now encamped about two miles and a half from Orange Courthouse on the plank road, and have been resting for a while , haven't nothing to do yet since we have been here except guard and picket duty and it may be that we will remain here for several weaks yet. There is the best season here we have had for some time. It rains two or three times a weak, and the corn looks better about here now than any corn I have yet seen. We pay one dollar dozen for roasting ears but they are pretty big ones. We received pay for two months three or four days ago, and we will draw two more months in the begining of September.

You will please to send me some socks for the next winter, a pair of woolen gloves and some soap. We have to pay three dollars per pound for soap now. I have no news to tell you at this time, only that we are all well, but we don't quite get anything to eat, we sometime buy extra flour and pay at the rate of sixty dollars per barrel. I wish I was at home to sow some more wheat this fall, you must tell me how many bushels of wheat you threshed out of them five bushels that I sowed last fall and how many bushels it took to make a bushel. I have nothing more to tell you at this time only to remain your affectionate husband untill death.
John Garibaldi

Direct your letters as follow
Mr. John Garibaldi
Co. C. 27th Regt Va. Inft, Stonewall Brigade, Second army corps, Army of Northern Virginia.

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

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