Letter to Sarah Garibaldi (Poor), 1863

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Written from "seven miles east of the Rappahannock and about five miles west of Culpeper Courthouse," Virginia. Letter regards general news.

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English

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Camp Stonewall Brigade

Dear Wife

I hope that I will get a furlough sometime next winter but I am not certain of it. There is good many ahead of me and they will certainly get a furlough before I will but I think that the furloughs will be granted more numerous, and thus I will be able to get one myself.

Tell George Kemper that Billy Kemper is not now with his regiment, he was send away from here sometime in September, he has received a sick furlough home and has never returned yet. Tell him that when he writes to him just to direct his letters thus, Mr. William P. Kemper, Co. C, 42 Reg. Va. Vols, Johnson's Division, Second Army Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. I allways thought that Mr. Kemper was with his regiment untill the other day when I went to look for him. I don't know him when I see him.

I send you twenty dollars in the last letter that I send you and when you write to me I want you to tell me whether you have received or not. The letter was directed to you and in the care of Mr. Lee Pursinger and sended it by Mr. Lamby and as the gentlemen has been to Alleghany and back again here now I will send you this present one the same way and by the same gentleman. You must write to me soon and tell me how you are getting along.

We will soon have another payday and will send you some more money. I can't send anything except money, there is nothing that I can buy to send you, except to send you little money every once an while. You must try to get along the best way I can. Give my best repects to Mother and Sister Russia, Mrs. Sarah Johnson, to Mr. and Mrs. Pursinger and keep a share for yourself and I'll remain your affectionate husband untill death.

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