Chambers-Lee County AlArchives History - Letters .....David Jackson Williams Civil War Letters August 18 1862
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Ron Williams hopewellroad@yahoo.com August 9, 2004, 9:05 pm

"Mississippi August the 18th, 1862

Dear Father and Mother,

I take pleasure this evening to let you know that I am well at present and I 
hope these few lines may find you all in good health. At present we are station 
about one mile from saltillo. E.J. Williamson is dead, he died on the ninth of 
August, 1862. We are stationed in a high state of cultivation with good water. 
This country rough and hilly and broken. I want you to write to me as soon as 
you can. I hant got a letter from since ?? Kent came hear. We hant got much 
rain hear in about 3 weeks. The dust is about three inches deep hear. I want 
you to write me as soon as you can. I have drawn two months wages and we will 
get my bounty in a few day and combination money. I hant had time to rite to 
you as often as I ought to write. I want you to write me as soon as you can. 
Remember me in the days of my youth. Direct your letters to Saltillo David J. 
Williams.

David J. Williams"

Also a portion of a letter written on September 4, 1862:

"There is heap sickness in camp now. There has been one man die hear since you 
left hear. Slaton is our Major. Jim? Smith is promoted to orderly Sargeant for 
General Martain (Martin). My weight is only one hundred and fifty-four...I 
would be glad to see you but the chance is bad now but if I live till Christmas 
I am coming home. Then if I can get off. If I was out of this company I would 
go amost anywhere else before I would come hear again...Remember me in the days 
of my youth, David J. Williams."

Additional Comments:
David Jackson Williams, called Jackson and "Tobie", was the son of David S. and 
Nancy Woodall Williams. He was born on June 12, 1843, in the southeast corner 
of Chambers County, Alabama, in the Hopewell Community, just south of present-
day Valley, Alabama. He never married. He enlisted with his brother-in-law, 
Edmond Jackson Williamson, in the 37th Alabama Regiment Company G, in Cusseta, 
Alabama, on May 6, 1862. The regiment was called "The Wyche Jackson Blues". He 
died in 1863 or 1864. His father filed a claim of his death on April 29, 1864. 
A Civil War marker was placed at the Williams Family Cemetery in 2001 in his 
memory. The same was done for E.J. Williamson.

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