Georgia:  Chattooga County:  Civil War Letters, Correspondence between 
Aaron M. Sewell and Louisa Dorsett Sewell, his wife


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Correspondence between Aaron M. Sewell and Louisa Dorsett Sewell, his wife. 
Louisa was the daughter of John R. Dorsett and Harriett Harlo[w] and 
granddaughter of Elijah and Anna Richardson Dorsett of Chattooga County, Ga.


page one
Dec 25, (18) 62
Camp ____ Huntsville
Madison County, Alabama
Dear Louisa,
It is with the most utmost degree of respect that I seat myself to address 
you. We are here at Tennessee River we will Rest here a day or too & get our 
close washed after marching One Hundred & 20 miles (in) this the mud Verry 
mutch fatiqued.
Hern from Mr. D. R. Smith that it is three hundred & 25 miles to Jackson 
Mississippi but I still hope we will get new orders for we should not take 
the march for it is unfair They ought to have been cavalry to have gone thro 
with the train & sent us by the way of railroad but we haft to go thro with 
all hard ships and the (illegible) is the tail end of Taylors brigade
We are in Stevensons devision Taylor is our brigadier general & Stevenson is 
our major general & Kirby E. Smith is our general in Command & all are under 
Smith

page two
Louisa We still live in hopes that there will be peace in a short time we 
still here favorable news we here that Sewerd has resind & that the 
Northern (illegible) has divided
Colonel McConnell says There is better prospects for peace than ever was 
since the war
Lousia I rote to you by Mr Baker to send my cloas you must send one pair of 
pants & you will have to send by the first one going to Chatanooga & get the 
Over coat & pants if Mr Baker didnot get them but I hope he did I lern that 
cramer has gone home & marred he can tell you Where they are they ware left 
at Mr Ruds store.. I haven't herd from you since I left home you now not how 
mutch it would gratify me to get a letter from you to nite

page three
This is Monday morning 
& a very beautiful moring
We will leave here Wend
nesday morning but
I hop [illegible] the orders will be
Countermanded for I don't
want to take the march
We have wagons to hall
our napsacks & blank
ets but marching in 
the mud it is disagreeable
We are rite where the yank
were in the summer
but there is none nearer
here than Nashville
The people is very kind
here They say the yankeys
treated them very bad
Lou I would like to
tell you all the little 
villages we pas & all the 
towns but it is to tedeous
to mention all of
them Ordaly Johnson
takes all of towns & the
districts for [torn] to the other

page four
Louisa it looks hard that
I cant here from you I have no
idear of getting a letter untill
we get to mississippi
Oh how I would like to
be with you at home but 
I see no chance for me to
get home Without going
like the boys did I dont
Expect to go that way if
i can get something to eat
here & you must rite
& send it by Lieutenant
baker rite one long letter
or too short ones tell
me all the news for
it will be a long time
if you have rote I will
get the letter after we 
get stationed so I will
Close by requesting
you to gave my love to all
relatives & all friends
May God Bles & save us all is
my praye so nothing more
at present But remain your
Dear husband till death
A. M. Sewell
to wife at home L.F. Sewell