Letter
Written to Sarah HollowellCamp near Brownsville, Miss. Jan the 4, 1864
Dear Wife,
I seat my self this morning to drop you A few lines to let you
no how I am getting A long. This leaves me well an doing tolerable
well I do hope when these few lines come to hands they ma find
you all well and doing well. The health of this Redg is tolerable
good at this time Helb Gaines is sick at this time but is better
now. I think it was cold what was the matter with him he is up
and a bout. I believe that is all the sickness that is in the
redg that I no of at this time. Well Emily I have no nuse to write
to you that will interrest you we have rain A plenty hear it is
a raining at this time though it is A warm rain. I can tell you
the last day of December we had rain and the first day of Jan
we had snow. I was on comisary detail on that day. I thought it
was the coldes day i ever saw in my life. My shoes frose to my
sturps but I did not suffer as much as you would think for in
the morning I new that I would have to go and I put two pair of
socks on my feet and I tell you that it help a great deal. The
weather has bin warm hear all of the tine but A few days A while
back we had three or four days of cold till the first day of Jan
then we had two days that was vary cold. It is vary changeable
hear. We have bin getting A plenty to eat hear all of the time
but we got out of something to eat two days. It went tolerable
hard. We have not bin getting as much pork as we did get A while
back. I think it may play out after A while. Emily I want you
to write to me all of the nuse that is in your knowledg and let
me no what you in tend to do and if you have got your arrangements
made to go home and tell me wheather you have heard from them
hogs that was at andersons or not. If you can go home and be satisfied
I think it would be the best thing that you could do that is if
you could get things to your notion and if you can I want to no.
The last time I heard from you you was A trying to make arrangements
to go home. I will ad vise you to get A horse or A mule as soon
as posible. I rote to Boalden and tole him to try an get you one
but I can not tell wheather he will or not he has the best chance.
You had better see him an talk to him A bout it your self and
then let me no wheather he will or not. I want you to send me
A pair of pants by the first chance. Cotton pants. Bill Cooper
said that he would bring them. My cas anet pants is A bout gone
up. I have never had my geanes pants on yet. I want the cotton
pants to put on if I should get wet. Thomas will get A detale
to come home I think when ever Bill gets back but he ma sell it
to some of the boys that has ben from home A good while. Well
Emily christmas is over hear now and I am glad of it. I never
was in all of my life as tired of A chrismas as I was of this.
It seems that the devil was A loos in this portion of the country.
They have in stady of praying Balls and frolicks of all kinds
and men that has familys at homes and be long to the church are
at tending those places. It is disgusting to think how they are
going on but I shall not call no names for it will do no god but
I wish there wifves new how they was a going on. I could not think
of acting in the way they are. Some of them has fine wimmon for
they wives. It would all most brak there harts to no how there
hus bands is goin on hear with the ladys. I am tole that there
is some of them that is willing to mary a soldier for six month
or during the war and some of them are willing to marry any period
of time that the soldier will say if it is only three week or
one week or one day. I do not know what this conferracry will
come to. It was wickedness that brought this cruel war on use
and I think it can not close till there is more religion but it
seems to me that there is no religion in the country now. We though
that the federals when they wer in there was they was the wickedes
men in the wourld but I can say that they is no wickeder than
our men. It is A continuel sin all the time. Men that it dus seem
to me that aught to pray for there familys that is at hime is
just turn loose. It dus seem to me that they aught to pray for
the protection of there familys do not seem to have the care that
they aught to have for them. Well I have give you all of the nuse
that I have at present. I am in hopes that there is no such going
on up there a bout Christmastine as has bin hear. Well I believe
I will close my dis interresting letter by asking you to write
to me and give me all of the nuse you have. So fare you well till
we meet a gain and if we never meet on earth ma we meet in heaven.
So noting more at present I remain your husband till death. C.
D. S. Hollowell.
To Mrs. S. E. Hollowell. Jan the 5.
Well Emily it was A raining so yesterday that I had to close so
as I have a chance I thought I would write and let you no that
I am well. I have no nuse to write. There was A fight in Capt.
Blackwell compana to day but I think it was whiskey that was a
fighting so nothing at present. I remain your husban till death.
C. D. S. Hollowell.
(Copy of original letter written by Calvin Daniel Samuel Hollowell
to his wife Sarah Emily Elizabeth (Porter) Hollowell, spelling
exactly as written).
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