Letter to Sarah Garibaldi (Poor)

Scope and content:

Written from "Camp Stonewall Brigade." Letter regards news of prisoners.

Language:

English

Other descriptive data:

Camp Stonewall Brigade
August 27th, 1863

Dear Wife
I wrote you a letter last week but not seeing any answer for it I thought I would write you this present one that you may know that I am well at this time and hope that when these few lines will come to hands they may find you enjoying the same blessings. It was just yesterday that I saw an extract from a Northern paper in the dayly Richmond Sentinel in which John R. Hepler, Joseph Reynolds and David Pence were reported as prisoners of war at Fort Delaware. Hepler and Reynolds were both slightly wounded. David Pence never was in the engagement and he must have been picked up straggling out by the yankee cavalry. We all thought that Hepler and Reynolds were both at home untill yesterday evening, when we saw it in the Sentinel.

I haven't much news to tell you only that we are all well in the company. George Tingler was sick for two or three days but he is now getting better. You may look for me at home next winter on furlough. I think I stand a pretty good chance to come next winter. I hope that the war will be over next summer and we will all come home for good.

Give my best respects to Mr. Pursinger and to all the neighbors and keep a share for yourself and for Mother and Russia and I'll remain your affectionate husband untill death.
John Garibaldi
To Mrs. Sarah Garibalda
So good by for this time

Subjects:

Confederate States of America. Army—Virginia Infantry Regiment, 27th
United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Prisoners and prisons
Correspondence

Places:

Fort Delaware (Del.)

Access and use