CAMPBELL COUNTY, GA - MILITARY  CIVIL War LETTERS James Henry Durrett

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This family lived in the Whitesburg area of Campbell County which later became Carroll County.


Camp Chase near Columbus, Ohio
Aug. 26th, A.D. 1864

Dear Mother,
It is with no small degree of pleasure that I attempt to write
you a few lines which will inform you that I am well and doing
well.  Ma, I have wrote you one letter besides this one but for
fear that you never received it I will write you one more.  I
was captured on the 22nd of July.  Me and Lieut. King,  J.R.
McWhorter, and J.F. Long and Capt. Longino and Gethro Jones.
We are all at Camp Chase, Ohio, except Lieut. King.  Ma, one
page is all that I am allowed to write.  Ma, I would be glad to
hear from home now and to hear all the news.  Ma, write and
place the letter in an envelope and put no stamp on it and back
it to me at Camp Chase, Ohio prison II3 and not seal it and
then take one that has a confederate stamp and back it to what
ever place the flag of truce goes through at.   You can get
somebody to back it then and put the other in it so nothing
more but remain as ever. 

J.H. Durrett 

NOTES:
The Durretts lived in Campbell County in the Whitesburg area.
This area later became Carroll County. James Henry Durrett 
fought in the Civil War in the 30th Inf. Company K of Campbell
County.  His father, Benjamin, 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

James Henry (Bud) did return home but in very poor health. He
was  described as the skeleton of a man who had measles during
the Civil War and as my grandmother's notes say, the measles
went to his lungs and he later had TB. He died in 1871 at the
ripe old age of 29 and both he and his father, Ben, are buried
in the old County Line Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery near
Whitesburg. 


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