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This file was contributed by: Linda Harris Weefuddled@aol.com ==================================================================== Camp 39 Regt Ga Vol Feby 14th 1864 Dear Wife As it is rainging this Sabbath morning & Mrs Cloyd is aiming to Start home tomorrow Ill write you a letter & after my pyous Regards to you I can congratulate you on your visit to the army to see me & your Return home I hope you get thro the Pickets & all so over the bad Roads & I hope you Returned home safe & all your compa ny it was verry nise withater all the time up till htis morning it is Raining now I suppose you got home Thursday night if not suner I would have liked for you to have stade till now if you had or new Mrs cloyd was coming but we dont know Everything but if is all for the best tell Sis she ought to send you to the camps agan to get Leters for her & the Rest of the girls. Tell all th3 fmily howdy for me I haven't any news to write Lou ill send you a testament by mrs cloyd Pat your birth under whare I pat mines tell ma to write Whare her Brother belongs Regt & co & Brigade & then ill write to him & go to see him if I can May god bless us & save us is my sincear prare Your loving husband till death A M Sewell F L Sewell page two Dear Sister Susan & Mother & all the Rest ill address you all At the same time I Received you leter by Lieut Johnston I was glad to here from you & to know that you ware geting on as well as you are but But I am sorry to know that Mary & Moth er & George are all to be afflicted at once I know that you have a hard time to get a long I hope & trust they will be beter when I here from them agan Tell Sally to be all ways on hand & help her ma when She can for that will be an honor to her. The Bible Says to honer thy father & mother that thy days may be long upon the land Susan you must be carefull to Spend money be carefull how you spend it & how you spend your property if you have anything to sell get the worth of it or dont sell at tall Mr Cheek is under obligation to ceap you in fire wood I am Well at present hoping this will finde you all well Good by your Brother till death A M Sewell Camp 39 Regt Ga Vol Feb 19th/64 Dear Wife As capt Midleton expects to start home on furlow this afternoon I thought it my duty to write you agan I am well & hope this will Reach you in due time & find you & all the Rest in good health. We have some as coole weather as we have had this winter it is verry coalds indeed Lou there is a chance for me to get a forty days furlow if I can get a Recruit I want you to Just try your best to get one for me When Lieut Johnson was at home he Swore Marion Hogg in to our company & gave him a 20 days furlough which is out 20th of this month then he will have to come join this company Louise if you get this before he starts get him to say he will Represent me as we live near each other & I can get a furlow on him as he is compeld to come I had just as well get a furlow on him as any body Mr. Hogg has to certify that Marion is a page two Inlisted Solger that that he inlisted according to his fathers will to come to this company & what time he inlisted Just get Mr Hogg to certify to Capt Midleton that Marion is a volunteer & inlisted solger & that he was willing for him to Join this camp any that he was not a conscript & that is sufficient if Marion is gon When you get this Just go to Mr Hogg & get him to make the cirtificate & you go to town & see Capt Midleton & gave it to him & let him attend to it for me but If Marion is there & you see him Just let him come on & bring the cirtificate with him & ill fix it up here & send up a cirtificate for a furlow & Louisa in case you fail in geting him tell you Pa that I say if he hast to still go to the war to come to this company that is if he goes in infantry but I hope he is exempted but if he aint I can get a furlow on him but I dont advise any person to come to the war page three But as long as any person has to go I think he will fare as well here as he will any plase in the survis unles he was on the coast & state ond Lou if you fail to get one try another try henry umphrey any man or boy that is not a conscript James Latamore is one I thought of writing to but you can Read this letter careful by & see what is Required if he is a minor you have to get his fathers cirtificate that he gave his consent to him volentering & that he is not a conscript & a man certifyes that he is not a Conscript Tell Mr Hogg to make this certificate I do here by certify that my son Marion is a inlisted solger in the con federate survice & that he had my concent to do so go & see Midleton & get him to write it & then let Mr. Hogg sine it page 4 Lou you must go to work as soon as you get this & work the wires write & get me a Recruit & send him on he will have to be here & be doing duty before I can send up a furlow if Marion was to came here before you get this I cant do nothing till I get his fathers cirtificate & then I am all Rite Act soon for we may move from here at any time but that wont inter fear with this if some one dont get in a head of me if I get the certificate in my name ill be intitled to him my Respects & hope he will get Marion to Represent me So I can get to go home It is so coal d that ill have to quit writing Read this carefully & then act first go to Mr. Hogg & have the trick fixed I am your A B D & Loveing Husband A M Sewell to L f Sewell Camp 39th Regt Feby 27 1864 Louisa My Dear Wife I once more a vail mysef with the Opertunity of writing you a few lines to gave you the newses as fair as I know We left Camp [illegible] 23rd ins & marched to dalhorn & staid all night 24th & then we came up here 25 in the morning & formed a line of Battle The enemy was advansing & we deployed skermishes & they fought all day but our line was not ingaged as yet buy we dont know how soon we will be but I hope not at tall a battle is a horible thing there was Several of our division engaged in the fight Lou while we was under the enemies fired I had many Reflections But cant expres my feelings I hope & trust for beter times The federal Cavalry [illegible] charged our pickets on the mountain the way you come into our camp & got posesion of that gap but our men tuck it agan It was Reported that the federals ware at summerville the first of this [illegible] & captured capt Middleton but whether it is so I cant tell Mr murdock left Abner Echols Wednesday he hadnt [illegible] any [illegible] of [illegible] all the negroes is gone to the federals from Dirttown Abner & John Echols has gone page two Louisa it seams like that all men who can get out of the army is doing so oficer & privates offices resigning that can They All think of home of going home & geting home to stay They say Oh That I could get home to stay Capt Middleton was aiming to Resign Dr King aims to resign too Our Maj Lut Core & several captins & some Lieutents & some sergents have resigned They all are making for home to there famil yes But Lou I fere that they are not sincerer or at least that they wouldent appreciate the injoyments as they out if theyt wase permitted to go to there homes Oh a word to you now from my heart if I ware permited to Return to my home with you I would live a different Life & would know how to ap preciate my hapiness with you but yet for all this Lou i am looking a litle for these ahead there is an house not made with hands eternal in the heavens a Tabernecle a home beond the skise that is the home we all are expecting to get to & let us have our lamp burning PS write imediately & let me know whether you got the leter I sent by James Johnston & the note page three Lou I hope to see you soon & be with all of you but if maybe some time first I want you to Show this to Sis & as many of the girls as you choose & to all whome may want to read it I would Like to gave the girls some advise if I thought it become me & if I was capable of doing so but I dont feel that it is my duty they all have parents to advice them I have reference to nothing but Pro fesses doing that that they know is against them profession when they dont noing by glenteraly I think it verry rongfully in them to do so if it ware something they Couldent well avoid it would be all together different But I hope ill hert no ones feelings tell Sis to write to me & all the rest especially James & Sis Gave my respects to all my connectons especially to my mothers family & next to Sister Zana then to all inquiring friends tell Mrs. Echols to write to me for Dick & herself your husband till Death A M Sewell page four Lou after you get this you might write to me if you havent wrote but I hope you have [ illegible ] will get it son & here that you Receive the Leter [illegible] by H M Middleton but if [illegible] I fore you didnt get it Louisa [illegible] this Leter but I hope you will get [illegible] that I write Soon but I hope not ill write every chance i can I havent saw your uncle yet but Clabern Division to rite at the [illegible] whare you cross Lou dont be uneasy about ill take the best care [illegible] I cant if I get to close Suffer myself [illegible] Killed & think it write to do so & fit to do so ill Return to you sometime if I live we have backes the Enemy a litle but I look for them to flank us on every side & come in the front too We Are three miles from dalton north corse I will write agan W F [illegible] is well Marion hog is well I am well thank my god that iam & hope you the same Please gave my Respecks to all my [illegible] 7 especially my Relations I am your husband till death A M Sewell Sunday Morning Feby 21/64 Louisa The capt is too days later than was expected but ill start in a few minutes this morning findes us all well You must make Out That Certificate for Mr hog or go a medently to the Captain & get him to do it tell him to cerify when Marion inlisted & that he was Will ing for him to inlest & that he is not a conscript If Pa hast to come I would like for you to get him to come to this company if he goes in infantry if I fail to get him or marion try Henry Hump rey bu if Marion is started we mite bave to get this cir tificate before any person can get a furlow on him so go get it the next day after you get this letter page two There are several of the boys that would like to get him in & I may have to pay him something to get him & if I do it wont be mutch for our money is gon up for 20 years i suppose Louisa I hope you are well today ill close for this time I am yours truly PS you must fix up this mater & send it just as quick as you can for fear some ne elce gets it Just go & see marion first & tell him how it is & then go & see my [illegible] Send it by Marion or someone elce rite a way dont wait [illegible] to page three [top half of page is torn away] Return if there is any other chance You may send it safe by mail if you can get it to come tell when it leaves Summerville & then mail it write soon be shure & tell me what you can do for me I will be anxious to here So good by