CAMPBELL COUNTY, GA -MILITARY CIVIL War LETTERS Benjamin Durrett Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dianne Crawford rcrawford1210@charter.net Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/campbell.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm This family lived in the Whitesburg area of Campbell County which later became Carroll County. Camp Sumpter came to be known as Andersonville Prison. Camp Sumpter February 17, 1865 Dear Wife, I drop you a few lines to let you know that I am well at this time. I hope when these lines reach you may find you and family well and doing too. I received yours of the 20th and was glad to hear from you and family and to hear you was well. I would have wrote you sooner but I heard you had a letter from Bud and I was waiting to hear from you again. I thought you would send the letter to me. This is the 5th letter I have wrote you and received but one by mail and one by Lieut. Jones. But I want you to keep writing perhaps I will get them someday and I will write you as often as I can. I have no news to write you. I want you to do the best you can for I can’t tell when I shall get to come home for it looks like this war will never close until it wears out all the men in the country so I come to a close by saying I remain your husband until death. B. Durrett NOTES: The Durretts lived in Campbell County in the Whitesburg area. This area later became Carroll County. If you are interested I have some pictures of my gggrandfather, Benjamin Durrett, who fought in the Civil War in the 30th Inf. Company K of Campbell County. His son James Henry also fought in the same company. The pictures are of Benjamin and his wife Jane Emmeline Barron Durrett. The letters are from Benjamin when he was a guard at Andersonville and from his son James Henry (Bud) while he was a prisioner at Camp Chase in Ohio NOTE: http://www.ohiohistory.org/etcetera/exhibits/ohiopix/image.cfm?ID=1914 http://www.iowa-counties.com/authors/andersonville/