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letter 2
Camp Narrows Giles Co Va
August The 17th 1862
Rutha Jane My Dear Wife
I take my pen in hand this Eavning to rite you few lines which
will informy you that I am not well my brest gets worse every day
Camp dose not agree joute a weak brest and I think if I have to
stay in camp long it will go very hard with me thear is no chance
to get a furlow or to get off any way I rote to Amos Cox by peter
Philips about getting a substitute for me peter Philips said that
Amos told him to tell me to Rite him a few lines so that he would
know how much to give for me and I rote to him not to stop under
one thousand dollars I rote to him to get as low as he could and
do the best he could for me and peter Philips said he wold do all
he could for me he said he wold be hear next tusday or Wedensday
but he may not come that soon I want to get home as soon as
posable if I can get to go home at all i expect every day that
this Ridgement will have to move a way from hear and no telling
how far do the best you can Rutha you Rote to me about thrashing
the wheat how I wanted it managed I cant tell you what to do for
the best you had better get the advice of some of your neighbors
or manage acording to your own judgement a bout it I would be
glad for you to stay at home and do the best you know how live as
much in the servis of god as posable my mind is flusterated so
that I cannot rite as I wish to I must close my letter for the
male will start in a short time so no more But Remaining your
ever faithful and afectionate husband until Death
John W. Wade
take good cear of my Dear little Mary and Eli
letter 3
Mr. Riley H. Hylton pleas
Send this letter to
New
river Giles Co. Va
August the 20th 1862
Rutha Jane My Dear Wife
Á ` ` few lines which will inform you that myself and Jacob is as
well as common hopeing when this reaches you it will find you and
my dear little babes and the enjoying the best of helth I
received a letter from you and Amos yesterday morning and was
sorry to hear that you and the children was not well I under
stand from your letter that you are trying to hier a substitute
for me and that Amos is trying too and wants to know how much to
give for one I rote to Amos by the hand of Peter Philips and told
him not to stop under one thousand dollars but to get one as low
as he cold and do the best he cold for me if he pleased I want to
get a way from hear as bad as you want me a way but I cant get a
way from this army unless I get a Substitute and if I dont get
one in a few days I may be a good peace from hear I want them to
follow me up with one if you get it Amos said he wanted me to see
my Captain and know is he would receive one or not I talked to
him in the Start a about it and he said he would Receive one
under sixteen if he was tolerable good size that is one tolerable
well grown or one over forty five
[this seems to be written by Rutha J. Wade] Rutha J. Wade when
this you see rember me to memy milels a part will be
I want you to try to get Elija Hill to Sow the spring wheat and
oats stuble in wheat if he can the frst of September before his
corn gets rip enugh to sow his own and the othe wheat stuble at
the lower side of the field in ry and find the seeds if he can
the field on the rhoad is whear I want the wheat and wry sowed if
the wry is not more then hlf plowed it will come I recon if I
shold not get home to do it my Self I wold be very glad to be
Released from here So I cold go home but if I cant I will have to
Stay I want you to Stay at home if you can and do the best you
can tak as good cear of the Stock as you know how Rite to me how
it is coming on I rote to Riley Hylton to take my gun and hand
saw and take cear of them to keep them from risting I did not
know then whear you would stay and I wanted them kept from
rusting I want you to put my tobaco a way whear it will keep for
I shold get to come home I might neede it I will have to pay from
twenty five to fifty cents per plug So no more But Remaining your
Ever Cincear Husband until death
Á ` ` h #2Rutha Jane WadeÄ
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J. Lipps Company The 50555
Rutha J. Wade when this you see remember me the meey miles a pert
weery be
Rutha Wade by
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Camp Narrows Giles Co Va
September the 1st 1862
Dear Wife
I take my seat this morning to rite you a few lines which will
inform you that I am as well as common and hope when this comes
to hand it will find you all enjoying the best of helth I
Received your letter last Sturday from what you rite you think
that me and Jacob cold come home and take our pleasur but it is a
mistak we are hear safe we are sorry that we come hear but we
cant help it now altho it may be the best for us we are in the
hands of the Same God now that we was when we was thear at home I
wish to live as near my duty towards god and man as I can I
talked to Jacob some time a go about doing better and he said he
was trying to do better and had bin ever sice he had bin hear I
want you all to bear your troubles as well as you can put all
your dependance in God and dont forget to pray I want my Father
to quit Studdying a bout frivolus things and put his dependance a
lone in God who is abe to pertect him David Harman rote to me
about that steer of ours Rutha I think you had better let him
have the steer ask twenty dolars for him and dont take any less
without you are _____ to you will have to Sell him and the red
heifer too for the two milk cows and calves and the mare and colt
will be as much as you cold winter even if I should get to come
home I want you to get Elija Hill or some body to sow that field
on the Rhoad in wheat and ry. Sow the oats and spring wheat
stuble in wheat and the wheat stuble in ry get John Duncan or
Isaac Wade to do the black smith work that you will want
do the best you can with the hogs unless the Season has bin good
for the corn you cant fatten only just what will make your meat
if theare is most to fatten them let them get as fat as they will
and sell them without feeding any corn to them only them that you
want for meete try to get fodder taken cear of if you can I will
send you a half sheet of paper with a note to my father for wat I
owe him and I want you to give it to him and that is what I owe
him without I have forgot it is forty dottar I think so no more
at presant But Remaning your ever cincere husband until death
John W. Wade
to Rutha Wade
I wold like to know how the corn is whther it is good or not I
wold like to get a substutet if he cold be got for anything
reasonable for I want to get home
letter5
Canhawa River
Sept -14th 1862
Dear Wife
Á ` ` morning am blessed with the opertunity of Riteing you a few
lines which will inform you that my Self and Jacob is as well as
common and hope when this comes to hand it may find you and all
the rest of my relations enjoying the best of helth We left camp
Narrows yesterday a week ago in perswit of the enemy that was at
Ralleigh Court house they left before we got thear and was at
Fayett Court House our forces attacted them a bout 2 or 3 o clock
in the eavning and faught til knight and then they ceased
fighting and the enemy left in the knigt after setting fier to
their comisory & stors They ware persued by our forces to Cotten
hill Where We had another little skirmish closley after them to
the River their main head quaters they set fier to every thing
very near that they could burning up a grate deal of shoogar and
coffee and provisions a very large amount and a great deal of
full stors thear is a bout five hundred and thirty wagons a bout
half of them burnt and ingured by fier the Rigement that we
belong to is with the rest of the army With the exception of the
company that my self and Jacob belongs is left hear to
tend to the ferry Boat and guard the property that we have
captured the army is thirty or forty miles a hed of us they have
got the Kanhawa Salt Works and Charlston and Cincinatti Too I do
not know how long we will stay hear at the ferry We will have to
stay till somebody els takes our place and then we will go on
after our Ridgement we have not bin in any fght since we have bin
in the army and may never be in any i hope we may never be in any
the prospect for peace at this time seems to be favorable my
ernest desier and prace to God is that peace may be established
so that we all may return home I have had the pleasure of
drinking some of our old sort of Ry Coffee we have plenty of
cloths Blankets and over coats I wold like to hear from you all
and know how you are coming on I want you Rutha to Take this
letter to my fathers and let them hear it read I want my father
and mother to rite to us and give us all the news our loss till
now is thirteen kiled and a bout thirty wounded The Enemys loss
is about forty kiled and a bout one hundred and fifty wounded and
we hav tooken one hundred prisners so I must clos my letter by
Sayind I want you all to be fervent in prace so no more at
presant But Remain your afectionat husband untill DeathÁ ¸
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h h #p 2to Rutha J Wade
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