Letter to Harriet Jameson

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Written from Point Lookout Prison Hospital, Maryland. Letter regards James H. Jameson's poor health.

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English .

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Point Lookout Hospital
5th Ward, 4 Division August 8, 1864

My dear Daughter
I intended writing you some time since but was too feeble to do so. My disease chronic Diarreah. I heard from your Mama on 27th June last. Jacob had built two huts at Spring Hill and your Mama intended when the fruit was wripe to move to it and save the fruit. The crop she represented as being very fine. Send me when convenient (Ten $10). Direct it to the care of Provost Marshall. Now Hallie you can write to me once a week. You see I am too feeble to write. Attend strictly to your studies and try and become well acquainted with one study before you take up a new one. Could you send me some Blackberry jam or any fruits that would act both as astringents & tonic? Give my kindest regards to your Uncle and Aunts and kiss the little boy for me.
Yours devotedly, James H. Jameson.

Subjects:

Point Lookout Prison Camp (Md.)
United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Prisoners and prisons
United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Personal narratives—Confederate
Correspondence

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