Letters written to and from Leander Crumly - Habersham, White and Madison Counties, GA Part 2 Submitted by Christine Crumley-Brown June 28, 2004 Copyright 1997. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm **************************************************************** The following letters and portions of other documents were written to and by Leander F. Crumley and his family members, or contracted with his decendants during a period from 1853 until 1910. Leander was my gggrandfather and lived in Habersham and White Counties. He, his brother and brothers in laws enlisted in the Confederate army when the "Tories invaded". (Yes, at one point, the Union army was referred to as "Tories".) Leander never saw much battle and died at home while on leave from the effects of starvation and dysentery on March 30, 1863. The following letters were handed down to my Great Aunt Lou. She was an old maid, and from her, the letters ended up with her nephew Leonard Kirk. It was through his and his son's generosity that I obtained a copy of these letters. I first transcribed these in the mid 1980s by typewriter. In 1997, I was at it again on my desktop computer. I have transcribed these as close to the originals in wording, spelling, (or should I say, misspelling?), and punctuation as possible. You will see how difficult it would have been to transcribe at points. The page numbers in parenthesis quotes are the page numbers of the copies from which I transcribed. I hope you enjoy reading these and using them for reference materials as much as I have enjoyed transcribing them. --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 66/67) July 20th 1862 Camp Near Powder Srpings Tenn Union Co. Dear Companion I imbrace the present opertunity of writing to inform you that I am well at present Hopen these Lines will Reach you safe and find you Enjoying the same Blesings I Have nothing new to write at this time more then I have got well again and we have mooved our Camp Seven miles from wher we was when I wrote Before I hant herde of William since I wrote Before But I suppse he is still at Knoxville I here that the Southern boys has Retaken Nashville and has taken General Critenden and all his army in Arkansas and from all the News it Look Like we was getting the best of the Yankees Lately I hant got But one Letter from you since the 9th June I want you to write Evry week shure and fail Not for I get uneasy when I Cant get no News from home if you have notheing to write write how you all come on any how we hant Drawed any money yet and don’t Know when we will But Some says that we will all Be paid of the rd of August But when that comes I fear that it will Be put off a gain I saw a letter that come from Richmond that Said that they was some prospect of Pease and I wish how soon it will be made for it is my opinion that if it ant made before cold wether that it will not be made before Lincoln time is out and a News President elected I want you to write how all the Sick boys is that went home ona furlow that has not started Back for most all there time is out But none has come yet (pg 2) Tell your mother that I hant saw William in one month but has herd from hiim Since I left and he was note much Sick and he want sick when we Left But Said he Dident feel Like marching I understand that we wont get any money untill our Quarter master gives Security for the money that is put in his hands and he is gone home at this time to make out his Bond Dan Pichford is quarter master and George T Quillin comasary and Both is gone home to get Security and I cant say how they will come out yet I ant But two or three pound Lighter then I was when I left home and I think I will fatten now if I don’t get sick no more and I hop I wont ut a man has to have and iron constitution to stay will here in Camps and thak the fare that we do go from one place to another and take the wether and Drink Rotton Lime stone water we Draw Beef all to gether now and no bacon and small rashens of flower and I fear it will get less the way wheat turned out this year Direct your letters to Knoxville untill I direct you to write some wher Else tell all the nabors to write and I will do the same as soon as I draw money I will send you some Stamps or money in a letter if I don’t get to come home but I hope I will get to come and Bring them so no more Good Bye for this time L F Crumly to Nancy E Crumly --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 68/69) Plains Cross Roads Tenn July 31st 1862 Dear Companion I can inform you that yours of 20th July has come to hand and geave me a greate Deal of satisfactions to hear that you was all well but the Baby I am Sorrow he is sick but I hope he will Soon Be well a gain I Can inform you that I am not well I have Been sick four days with the jandess a gain But Feels much Better to Day then I have and think I shall Be able for Duty in a few day if no Bad Luck I had got verry unesy a bout home it had Been so Long since I Got any letter untell yours of 20th come and they had not come any Letters to our Company for three weeks untll Day Before yesterday we all had Desided that the mail had stopt But it has come Regular for the Last Two Days and I hope it will continue to come and Bring letters with it. We come here to this Camp Day before yesterday and I was as tired as Ever men gets to be fore I was sick and had my Load to toat and march a Bout 15 mile anad had not Eat But Little that morning anad I was so tired and felt So Bad that I Did not Eat any supper and we hant had any Bread in camps since yesterday Dinner and the Recruites thinks it hard times but they will get ust to the Like if the war Last Long and the provison to haul far as we Do at this time But our Bregade has sent for thirty wagons more (pg 2) I Cant Say When I will Be at home for there is no chance to get a furlow at this time and they is Eight men Detaild out of our Regment to go Back to Georgia to bring all the men that went home on furlows Back to camps whether they are sick or note they have to come out of all that went out of Moores Company they has come Back But three men yet I J W Meak(e)s H H Bowen and W C Allen and from the way they have staid at home the Rest of us will never get to come home Curtis Ledford is complaining some But not much W R Ledford is well and harty as you Ever saw him J C Bell id Detaild to wait on the Sick at Knoxville and I hant saw him since we Left then Some 5 or 6 weekes a go I hant saw William Jackson Since I left there nor Cant hear from him So I Cant write how he is the Last time heard from him he was going a Bout wher he pleased But was getting pore and Looked Bad William Allison gune went off in his hand and shot a hole through the pam of his hand through the joint of the middle finger he is at the hospatal at Rugledge David N Carrell is at Rutledge with the Jandess W C Allen is well James C Allen I think is taken the Jandess all the Rest of our Company is well that you are acquainted with But J W Meakes he is sick and will Be discharged in a few days You must Excuse Bad writing for it is Raining and my paper is wet and nothing to write on but a Catridge Box Your Loving Husband L F Crumly To Nancy E. Crumley --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg.70/71) Taswell Tenn August 10th 1862 Dear Companion After some delay I imbrace the present opertunity of writing to inform you that I am well at present hopen these Lines will Reach you safe anad find you all well I got here to the Regment yesterday and Found the Boys all well But I H Taylor Robert Westmoreland they are sick But not Dangerous I would a wrote Before Now but I was at Locus Grove Camp and our Regment Left and would not Let any fo But what thought they Could Doubl quick So I was Left there and I would not write untill I herd from the Battle our men got in a Little fight on the 6th of this month and taken 60 prisners and 3 peasees of artilary and we Killed 35 men that we found on the ground and the Yankees hauled off three wagon Loads of Dead through Taswell we Lost one man in our Regment in the Habersham Company By the name of Nations and tw slightly wounded on in our Company and I don’t Know what company the other Belongs too the man that was wounded in our company is By the name f Wade he Lives in Rabun County he had the skin cut on the back of his Left hand and a hold cut throught his wescoat skirt and the skin marked on his Brest and after wards was Knocked Down with a Bum shell But not hurt so but he Jumped up and tride it again the yankees that we taken prisners says that if a Batry wwas in hell and the Georgians was orderd they would charg it with a Barlow Knife our Capt Moore was the first man that fired a gun and the Last in our Regment we taken a Good many Cooking utencels provisions Knapsacks & C I have not got But three Letters from you that has Been wrot since June come in and I want you to write as often as you can I will send you and you mother a Receipt to make Shugar and surup When the Can is Ripe Enough for two thirds of the seed to look Black and one third still green it is Ready for work take one gill of lime and pour a half gallon of Boiling Juice with it in a Earthern vessel let it stand as much as half an hour then when you git your juice Ready one half point of the lime water in ten gallongs of juice and stir it well and let it stand a half an hour Before you put it in the pot have the pot as clean of Rust as possible and greese the pot well with Lard for salty greese won’t do then start it to Boiling and take off the skim that Rises at first and when the thick skim is off make it Boil so fast that it wont make any more skim for it wont make suger if it is not Boild and if you skim it all the time it wont make sugar when it Begins to thicken put in one table spoon full of Lard and Boil it to 238 degreese of heat this will let some molasses Rise and the sugar will settle to the bottom for to make surup 228 Degrese of heat will Do to make Sugar that will not drip boil til you can take a little of it as hot as you can beare it to your fingers and put It between your tteh and when you can tell that it has a candy appearance when you can first Begin to Discover that there is a toughtsubstance Between your teeth it is then Ready to take out and in warm wether it will turn to sugar in a Bout a week when it id first cool it is a soft candy but will urn to sugar make it boil in a rage all the time you must not let it cool down but kook in a puff all the time You must do the best you can untill I come Home and I don’t know when that will e tak good care of the Baby (in margin of 1st page) So I must come to a close for this time so no more at this time but Remains your Cinser husband untill Death L F Crumly To Nancy E Crumly --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 72/73) Tar(z)well Tennessee August 14th 1862 Dear Father & Mother Brother & Sisters I once more imbrace the present opertunity of writing to inform you that we are well Hopen these Lines will find you all well we have not received any Letter from you in a Long time and only three from Nancy Since the first of June and I Begin to think that I wont get any more we have three Deserters in our company this week G. B. Dover William Allison & John white they left here Last Monday to wash ther Close and they have not been herd from Since So I think they went home to get them washt We had a Litte Battle here with the Yankees the 6th of this month We was not in it But our ment made them Rake out in a hurry We Kiled Several of them we found thirty or forty Dead on the Field and they yankess hauld of three wagon Loads of Dean we had (12) twelve Killed on our side and a Bout thirty wounded we had But one Killed in our Regment and two wounded one wounded in our Company By the Name of D.E. Wade Slighty the Ball cut the skin on the back of the Left hand and through Both sides of his shirt and on eside of his wescot cuting the skin on his Breast and after wardes was Knock Down with a bum shell But not Bad hert he has Been Doing Duty all the time since I Don Know the other man I Don’t Know But he was but slightly wounded and the man that was Killed was By the Name of Nations he Belonged to the Habersham Company he was shot through (pg 2) the head I have got over the Jandice again and I feel as well as I Ever Did But is Short winded yet Williams come to the Regment Day Before yesterday he is well But weekly yet I have note much to write at this time more then we all see hard times here in the army but I hope that it wont be so all ways but it looks Like that we will Eat out this Country so nothing But starve ation isCertin we are halling in Rosoniers Evry Day and at this time we have to go six miles to get them and it is taken comfields Clean so the people hear will have to suffer if they Don’t Leave this Country for the provision is not making for the people to Live on if the army was not hear Lieutenant John W. Meakes has got a Discharge and is going to start home to night or in the morning and as the mail is unsertin I thought I would some and send by him I hear that the mail has not you out from here Since the Battle But don’t Know how true it is But I Know that we get no Letteres here in camps I want you to take this Letter up and Let Nancy hear it Read as I am So Scearce of paper I cant write a Leter to all at this time and tell her that I wrote to here two or three Day a go and will write a gain in a few Days Five my Best Respects to all the Neighbors and tell Mr. W A Warwick that I will write to him as soon as I can get some paper and he must Excuse me for not writing no sooner So no more at present But Remains your sons untill Death LF Crumly To Hardy Jackson WM Jackson and Family (in margin of pg 1) tell Nancy to Do the Best she can untill I get to come and I Don’t Know when that will be But I shall come as soon as I can after I Draw money if I Ever Draw any but I see no prospect any now L F Crumly --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 74/75) August 27th 1862 State of Tennessee Near Cumberland Gap Dear companion it is with pleasher that I take the pleashere of writing to inform you that I am well at present hopen that these lines will find you all well I can inform you that your letter of august 9th has come to hand this morning which gave me great pleasue to hear from you and to hear you was all well the last letter I had got before from you was dated July the 27th Was one monthe ago I have not wrote in most two weeks the reson I did not write sooner was the mail was soped but it has started again as themial was stoped I had give out ever getting any more letters but the mail has starte one time more so I think we can Get Letters from home one time more if you all will write to us we all had goive out ever get any more news from home but I think that we will get letters from now on We are stationd here in two mile of the yankees and the pickets is fighting evry day and we are looking for a big fight evry day but we are shure to whip when it comes on they have twelve thousand men in the Gap and we have enough of me to forma line of battle seven mile long and some thirty five or forty thousand men on the other sid of the Gap so we have them so rounded so they will have to come out fand fight or perish one or the other we taken twenty ____ beeves from the yankees yesterday and Killed six yankees in getting the beeves but non hurt on our side times is verry still here to day I think that we all will get furlow after we take the Gap but we will have to perish them out so we can get a chance at them for we will not go on them where where they are in the fortification you said for me to write 2 letter that you could read your self but I think that it will bother you to read this but it is the best I can do on my knee and set on the ground (pg 2) I have got eleven letters from you since I come in camps so you can say whether that is all the letters you have sent me or not I want you to write as often as you can and I will do the same I want you to knit me some socks and send them to me by the first one that comes if I don’t get the chance to come home after them I have sore holes in the last pare you sent to me so if I have to stay untell cold wether I shall need them I think I will draw my money shortly or a part of it and as soon as I draw my money I shall try to get a frulow and come home to see you all and get some close cotton soccks sells here at seventy five cents per pare and wool socks at one dollar and twenty five cents and other clothins in propotion I will send you some lines of poetry Ever of thee im fonly dreaming Thy gentle voice my spirit can cheer Thou were the star that mildly beaming Shone o’er mypathe when all was dark and drear Still in my heart thy form I cherish Evry kind thought like a bird flies to thee Ah never till life and memry perish Can I forget how dear thou art to me Morn noon and night where’er I ma be Fondly I’m dreaming of thee Ever of thee when sad and lonely Wandrins a far my sould joy’d to dwell Ah then I felt I loved thee only All seemed to fad before affecion spell Years have not chilled the love I cherish True as the stars hath my heart been to thee Ah never till life and memry perish Can I forget how dear thou art to me Morn noon and night where’er I may be Fondly I’m dreaming ever of thee So I will come to a close for this time by asking you to write often as you can and I want you to write about the Baby if he can walk yet or not and write how all the children is and all the news so no more at present but remains you husband LF Crumly to N E Crumly --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 76/77) Camp Near Cumberland Gap Sept 6th 1862 Dear Companion After some delay I a gain take the present opertunity of writing to inform you that I am well at the present time Hopen these Lines will find you all well I have nothing strange to write to you at this time we are still here in sight of the yankees but some three mile from them I heare that there has Been another hard fight at Richmond but I havae not herd who was Killed but in the company from Lumpkin in Pillips Legion I hear that one of the McAfee was Killed anad one wounded I expect it Hsmp and Frank as they are all that I know of from there in that compnay the yankees has not come out to fight us yet and I don’t Know whether they will or not I Hear that Gen E. Kerby Smith has whipt the yankees Badly over in Kentuckey But don’t know how true it is But it comes in a Dispatch to us night before (pg 2) last so I Recon it is true these is severel of the Boys here that is sick Curtis Ledford is sick William Jackson is sick he was out on picket night Before Last and was taken with a chill and fever and not knowing what was Best for him he drunk too much water when the fever come on him so he is verry Bad off at this time and hant eat nothing since night Before Last but a few irish potatoes which I went out ant bought for the sick boys yesterday evening Robert Abernathy is sick but not Bad off Moses J Nix is sick and is verry bad off with his side and ip in come mostly from and affected Kidney J P Franklin is complaining some but not badd off the Rest of the boys is well that is here with us Robert Westmoreland has not got with us yet we Left him at Tazwell Sick and I hant herd from him in some time But he was on the mend the Last I herd from him we have some recrutes (pg 3) come in Marion Pilgrim Z. Anderson wiliam West Thaedore Durham and one Prewet and William West will get a Discharge to Day or tomorrow and I shall send this Letter by him We have not Drawed any money yet and I don’t know whether we will Ever draw any or not it Begins to look like we sould not for we have Been waiting for Dan Prickford to give security and Mr. Graham was apointed by Col Boyd and come with his Bond made out and Col Phillips would not let him take the place of Pickford untill Pickford come from Marietta and Grahma was going to start home But I Don’t Know whether he is gone or not and if he is I think the chance bad about getting any money for we will have to wait for some other man to be appointed quarter master I Received you Letter of august 18th which give me great satisfaction to hear you wasl all well and I was glad to hear that the children was going to school and want you to keep them going to school Evrry day (pg 4) that it is posable for you to send them I want to know if you dident have to wash Henrys close when he come Back from the mountain when he toated his unkle warrens gun for him to toat the vinison well Henry you and Merrida the one of you that gets the fewest whiping I will get a new coat when I come home Jane you Be smart and Keep the Baby from getting hurt and I will fitch you a pretty when I come home I would send you a map of our camp and the yankees camps if I had the time to Draw it off But I will try to have it Ready by the time I write a gain as it will take half day to draw it off So I will close by saying for you to write as often as you can and Direct your Letters to Morristown Tennessee so notheing more at present but remain your Husband untell Death Leander F. Crumly To Nancy E. Crumly --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 78/79) Sept 9th 1862 Camp Investment Near the Cumberland Gap Dear Companion I again take the present opertunity of writing to inform you that I am in good health at this time hopen these Lines will find you all well and Doing well I have nothing strange to write to you at this time more then I wrote to you in the other Letter that I Sent by William West He was Discharged we have several recurtes come in our Company has at this time one hundred and four if they was all here from home and I hear that the most of them is on the way Back but these is no chance for a man to get a furlow yet and I don’t know when we will but I hope the time is not far off when we can yet furlows for I want to come home to see you all verry Bad but don’t know when I will eer get the chance to come I am tatning Evry Day and is getting stouter Evry Day (turn over) (pg 2) you wrote to me that Warren had gon Back to Richmond But you Dident say whether he was gon as a solger or not and I want you to write to me all a bout it so I will Know whether he is a solger of not tell Alison Ledford that E. C. Ledford is well Wesley R. Ledford is well Thomas L Ledfore is well and Curtis A. Ledford has the yandice at this thime but is on the mend and all four of them has applide for a transefer to John H. Cravens Company and I Expect they will Leave here this week or the first of next if they make the swap and I think there is no Danger But twaht they will William Jackson has not had no more chills since I wrote Before But is Still sick but on the mend I think he mite get a Discharge but he says he don’t want it for he would Be conscripted if he was and he had just a well stay while he is here Robert Abernathy is not well (pg 3) he has the Rumtism in his Legs so he cant get a Bout to Do much good we have not had any fight yet and I don’t know whether we will or not James A Jackson is sick he was taken yesterday on Pickett with the head ache and a pain in his Brest and the Doctor taken him to ther tent and I hant herd from him this morning I send you a map of our army on this side of the mountian and allso the Yankees camps and you can see wher our company and some of the Rest thirty in all faut two Regments of yankees for four hours on Indian Creek I have marked the map as plain as I could so it could Be under stood I will come to a close for this time By saying that I received yours of the 28th august which I was glad to Receive altho there was But a Dozen lines and more blank paper then writing so I will close by saying for you to write often as you can I Remain your Husband till Death L F Crumly To Nancy E. Crumly Proper names on map: Virginia Road Powels Valley Road Iron work Road Rains Brigade Taylors Brigade Holiers Legion Bartons Brigade Powels River Indian Creek Alstons Cavelary Kentucky Road Cumberland Gap The above mentioned map was a hand drawn discription of the area Leander was in at the time. It shows battlefield alignments for both armies. If you wish to see a copy, e-mail me: http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00013.html#0003050 --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 81/82) Near Cumberland Gap Sept 16th 1862 Dear Companion I take the present opertunity of writing you a few lines to let you know that I am well at this time Hopen these few Lines will find you well I have nothing to write at this time more than I have in a letter the other day But as Jeptha Ledford was going to start home this morning I thought I would write again Marion is a Bout as he was with his pains (Thim) William Curtis Ledford M.J . Nix R. Gibby will all be discharged in a short time as they ant able to stand camps and I don’t think that Robert Abernathy will ever stand camps for his legs swells verry bad the most of the boys here thinks that pease is close at hand and I hope it may be so we all can get home to stay there (pg 2) We have orders to keep three Days Rashens cooked and on hand all the time and be Ready to march in one hours time but where we will go when we march I can’t say some says that we will go in Kentuckey and some says home and some says to Savaney but I cant tell Wher we will go Marion Lost al his thing as he come back and I never got the potatoes that you sent to me and he had Bought me Some tobacco and Lost it But I had some tobacco and some money I got Liberty one day to go out and I got some apples and peaches and brought them in and sold them for three Dollars and forty cents and could a got more to sold by the Dozens so I will close for the present time Good Bye for a while L F Crumly To Nancy E Crumly --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 83/84) Loudsville Ga My Dear Husband Sept 21st 1862 I take the present opportunity of writiing you a few lines to let you know that we are all well at this time hoping these lines may find you well have nothing interesting to write at this time I got a letter form you this morning dated Jly 27th it has been a long time coming Marion Allen and John Allen has got home on side furlough Marion is very low and it is doubted whether he ever gets well or not Curtis Jakcson got home last Friday he is very Low too Uncle Levi went and brought him hew was three days hunting for him Fathers folks got a letter from Warren yestrday he was well and at Camp Randolph near Calhoun and expects to stay there all winter Uncle Levi said A T Jackson was well when he left Richmond (pg 2) You wrote for me to make you a pair of socks and you would come after them You acan come a head for I have got them ready I want you to come any how for I don’t know whether to sow any size down at our old place without you will come and tell me I will have to move ______________________ any how I have not got no wool yet but I will go to Duckets in a few days and see if I can get any and I will make your clothes I have got thread and had to give 5 dollars for it one bunch wool is $100 to 1.25 cts a pound We have not pulled any fodder yet nor made any of our Sugar cane yet and I expect you will have to come home and help make it up I must come to a close for this time you have my love as ever Nancy E. Crumly To L. F. Crumly --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 85) Recorded as Dec. 7, 1862 (pg. 86/87/88) Camp Near Rutledge Tennessee Oct 26th 1862 Dear Companion I take the present opportunity of writing to inform you that I am in Common Health at this time Hopen these Lines will Reach you safe and find you all well. Yours of the 29th Sept has come safe to hand I met it at the Cumberland Gap on my way back from Kentuckey You must excuse me for not writing no oftener then I have for we have Been on a march for the Last 35 days we Lef the Cumberland Gap on the 20th of Sept and got back to this camp last night and has not ________ then _________________ days rest in the 35 Days and we are all wore out as anything and I knave had the Diareah all the march and the piles ever since we started Back until yesterday they quit hirting me and I am on the mend So I think that I will get over my trip shortly F M Crumly is at Been Station or there is where he went when we started to the Gap I have got but two letters from you since Elbert came back and it has been something over five weeks since I wrote before we wnet to Kentuckey we have seen hard times since we started to Kentucky and all most starved for water on the march d I got Bread once a Day and ____ times more (turn over) (pg 2) the first frost that I saw was the 20 of this month and it comemanced snowing last night and has continued ever since the snow is about 3 inches deep at this time and all the trees green It looks like snowing in the summer Monday Evening 27th the snow this morning was 6 inches Deep but has cleard of and is melting fast we was orderd to march this mrongin but was orderd Back to our old camp but will start a gain in the morning to chatanooga I Expect from what I hear but don’t know for sertin wehr we will go but I will srite a gain as soon as I get where I go and I want you to write as often as you can and let me hear how you all come on you wrote to me that Brother Alexander D. Crumly wanted you to moove to his house and I want you to write to me whither you are willing to moove there or not as Emily has wrote to Marion that you or here one has to Leave there for you have said more a Bout her then she can write and that you clame one ghird of the corn and that is no more when the contrack I was to have on thrid of the corn and she says you clame half of the fodder there was not___ said a bout the fodder So if I was you I would take one third and say no more bout it and have o ____ if you can ___ a long with out it _____ pease is the best policy (pg 3) and if you ant willing to moove there write to me as soon as you get his and let me know and if you ant willing to moove there you must get a place for your self as I cant get the chance to come home to attned to the business my slef But I will come home as soon as I can get the chance for I want to see you all Bad as nay Body can want to see any Body I cant write all a bout my trip at this time some of the Boys has not got to camps yet T L Ledford is sick and WP Franklin is both sick and has not got up with the Regment yet and E. C. Ledford is back with them they are on theis side of the gap and Simps Jackson is in Kentuckey Down with the fever He is bad off and as when we come back by wher he was left at the Capt Stopt and saw him William is with us and well Dan Jackson come up this morning with his toes out so you can guess how his fee felt in the snow Ance Boggs starts home in the mroning and I will send this by him tell A H Ledford that I hant herd from Curtis since I left the gap if you get a place there to live at write to me where it is and all the news there and I want you to Keep a___ the truck you make and sell none for it is a going to be hard times and note much ___ ___ of better times and I want you to do the best you can for there is no Chance at this time for me to come home but one of the company will go home (pg 4 ) in a few days But I see no chance for me to get to come yet the one that comes will be Detailed to go to bring Clothing but I shall send for non unless I could draw some money for we have not Drawed any yet But I understand that we will Draw as soon as we get to Knoxville and I will send you some as soon as I draw it I cant get to come and Bring it But I hope that I will get to come my self I want you to write all you know a Bout AT & NW Jackson as I have not herd from Either of them since N W Jackson started to Virginia and I am ancious hear form them I am sorrow to hear that William L. Sumter was killed in the Maryland Battle I want to be at home making shoes for you and the children and a good pare for my self for my toes is out but the snow is most all gone so I think I will Do well yet I have wrote this letter on paper that was give to me by the Ladies of Danville Kentuckey and I shall put it in an envelop of some sort so I will come to a close for the present Driect to Knoxville and I will write again so soon as I get stationed So no more but remains you Husband untill Death L. F. Crumly To Nancy E. Crumly --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 89) November 2nd 1862 Mud Creek Camp Ground Tennessee Dear companion I imbrace the present opertunity of writing to inform you that I am in common health at this time hopen these lines will reach you safe and find you all well I have no stange to wright at this time more then I have traveled over seven hundred miles since we left the gap and at this time is in nine miles of Lowden where the Rail Road crosses the tennessee River and I think that we will satahere a few days and rest for we all need rest my feet is broosed and I am as stiff as and old broke down wagon horse and our officers say they will have us paid off before we leave this camp and then I think we all will get to come home to stay from what can see going on here in campe for the arms is being deliverd up to the ordennence office in Knoxville and the cannon that belonged to our bregade has been delivered over and from ever moove I think pease is made so we can all soon get home and then I can tell you more then I can werite in a week (pg 2) I would be glad to get a letter from you for I have got here two letters from you since Elbert come back and the last lettere was wrote the 29th September I don’t know what to say to you a bout writing for I don’t know where for you to direct your lettes as we will leave here shortly and I think will go to Georgia whether we get to come home or not Ance Boggs started home yesterday morning and I sent a letter by him and I hope this will be the last letter that I will have to write untell I get to come and bring one my self I got all my close that I left at Knoxville all but one pare of pants but they was all stoled firt so I have as much close to carry as I want to toat at this time so I will come to a close for this time for the sun is down good bye for this time Leander F. Crumly To Nancy E. Crumly --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg.90/91) Nov 12th 862 Camp Near Vancy Station Tenn Dear Companion It is with greate pleashure that I again seat myself to inform you that I am well at present Hopen these Lines will reach you safe and find you all well and doing well I have notheing strange to commmunicate to you at this time more then we have had more rest since we come here then we have had for some time past but not more then we stood in need off for we are all like Broken Down horse all stiffend up and some of us has been swelled up so we look like we was full and fat ut the most of us has got over that I have looked evry day for a letter from you since I came back from the Gap But has not got any yet But I still live in hopes that I will hear from you shortly as it has been some time since I have got any letter from you and I am uneasy and shall be untill I get a letter (turn over) (pg 2) I can inform you that our Regment has been paid off for five months and twenty seven days we got our money last night I drew eighty five dollars and ninty cents and would send you some money if I had any body to send by But only one man can get to go home out of the Regment and that is Lieutenant Roberts of Lumpkin and I don’t Like the man well enough to send money by him for it is Reported here that he stold a Preachers boots and if he done that I don’t want him to tot money as soon as I hav any chance if I cnat gt to come and bring it mu self but I think I shall come before Long for the confedracy ows me a furlow that I am intitiled to one I expect wher we will leave here in a few days but wher we will go I cant say at this time we are still lying out taking the wether like a parsel of hogs but the solgers wont put up with that (pg 3) sort of fair much longer this winter for if they ant Better provided for they will al desert and go home two wnet home last night and they are leaving every day and will unless they are better treated then what they are I want you to write to me as soon as you get this and direct to Knoxville and if I laeve here it will follow me and write all the News there and how much corn you made and I want to know if you have enough to do you or note they has been two of our company dide since we started to Kentucky Robert Abernathy and William Allen dide on Thursday the 6th of Nov at Rutledge and there has been several sent to Atlanta to the hospital there E. B. Blackburn D. W. Suggs D. W. Jackson J W Stoval John V Sims F M Pilgrim and there is several complaining here in camps A K Stover is sick with fever N M Freeman and several others complaining and if we don’t get shelters shortly (pg 4) I look for all the Regment to get sick if not to die I want you to take good care of what you have made for I fear that it is going to be harde worke for the people to Live next year for corrn meal sels here for two dollars and half per bushel J. P. Bruce starts home this morning to carry money for the company and I send you sixty dollars by him two 20 Dollar bills and two ten Dollar and Iwant you to get Bills of that size for some has sent large bills that will be hard to get changed I kept 25 dollars touse my self and I have to buy me some shoose here for less then ten dollars per pair be as savin as you can and do the best you can untill I come home and I will come as soon as I can get the chance so I will come to a close for this time by asking you to write as soon as you get this Good Bye for this time L F Crumly to Nancy E. Crumly --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 92/93) Loudsville Ga Nov 23rd 1862 My Dear Husband It is with pleasure I write you a few line to let you know that we are all well at present hoping these lines will find you well. I received a letter from you last Sunday and then one last Wednesday I was glad to hear that you was well I would have written last mail but I got you letter and you said for me not to write till you wrote for me to write anad now I will do the best I can I got the money you sen to me by Bruce I got 2 20’s and 2 10’s you want to know whether I have enough of corn to do me or not I have not got near enough to do me if I could get that from (pg 2) Warwick I would have a plenty to do me I’ve not got nay place to go to yet Marion has written to Emily to tell me in his name that I have to leave here and he will stand by his side as long as he lives and for here to let me have my share of the fodder he says that Emily wrote to him that I did not help pull all the fodder that I quit before it was done it is a mistake me and my two boys pulled halfof all the fodder and you can tell Marion so and now she wont let me have any but the 4th and I have not took any You wanted me to give all the news “now for it” Curits Ledford (Senior) and Harriette Dooly was married last Thrusday was a week ago and she staid with him two nights and then left him Uncle Baink (?Brink) Jackson was married some time ago to Sarah Watters (roper) (the rest seems to be missing) --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 85) (misdated letter) Chattanooga Tenn Dec 7th 1862 Dear Companion I again take the opertunity of writing to inform you that I am not well but much better then I have been Hopen these lines will reach you safe and find you all well I came here two days ago and hs farde verry well ever since I came here I am at the at this time the Dirareah is Better on me then it ahs been for Two months and the Last two weeks I have sufferd a great Deal with the piles but they have broke on me and has Bleed freely and I am much bette5r with them so I think that in a shor time I shall be able to return to camps a gain I left the regment at manchester and all the boys was doing verry well al but T. L. Ledford he was sick and I tride to set him to come here with me but he said he would stay in camps a while longer and see if he did not get better in a few days I have no news to write at this time of interest I did intend to try for a furlow to come home but the doctor says that orders has come from Richmond to grant no furlows nor discharges untell further orders so it is a bad chance at this time but I shall come a soon as I can get the cahnce and I hope that I will get to come a Christmas F. M. Crumly has the promis of a discharge and the doctor said that he would fix it up in a few days when I left the Regment So I don’t know whether he will get it or not But I hope he will for he has not been able for duty since he come back from home I want you to write back as soon as you Receive this and let me heare how you are all getting a long and when you write direct to the Nusom Hospatal Chattanooga Tenn You must excuse a short letter as I have nothing to write more at this time so no more at preestnet But the well wishes of your Husband L F Crumly To Nancy E. Crumly --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 94/95) December 13th 1862 Ringgold Catoosa County Ga Dear Companion I a gain take the opertunity of writing to inform you that I am in common helth at present hopen these lines will Reach you safe and find you all well I came to this place the 9th of this month and is in the Buckner Hospatal I feel like I was able for duty again if I had any streght to march But my Legs feels week ever since I come out of Kentucky and I don’t believe they will ever get any better as long as I stay in camps and havae to march thie way we have had to do F M Crumly is here with me and is a bout as he was with his pains Curtis Ledford is here and is well at this time and is detaild as a nurse in the Bragg Hospatal there was some furlowed home this morning but it was them that was all most Dead and no hope fo therm ever getting well It lookes like I will never get the chance to coe home no more unless I was to do like some of the boys has cone run a way and come there was two left here last night out of my Regment and one out of my company and the other out of the Union Company but I cant Blame them nor no body that knows how we have been treated cant balme them for runing a way for it is all the way they have got to live long anad stay in camps and take the frost and snow with out tents and be marched to death Besides I left my regment at Manchester but it was ordered from there to Murfreesborough and I heare that our men is falling back (pg 2) from there so I think that they will fall back to Chattanooga before long for they all ways pick in like they was going to do something and if the yankees don’t back they will and this is one of the times I don’t think the yankees will back our men has got the Rail Road Bridge at Bridgeport most done and I think they will fall back __ as for the Yankees to burn it a gain in lese than one month But I hope it will not Be the Case but the works of our men looks to me like it would be the case I expect that they will send me back to my Regment in a few days for they are sending all back tat they can get off But if they send me to the Regment I will to them no good yet so they had us well Keep me here a while (pg 3) Longer I come a cross some of my kin folks to day here in the hospatal from Alabama By the name of Ecols and a son in law of Robert Crumly So I will come to a close by asking you to write soon and Direct to Ringgold Georgia Buckner Hospatal So Good bye for a while L F Crumly To Nancy E Crumly --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 96/97) December 23rd, 1862 Ringgold Catoosa County GA Dear Companion I take the present opertunity of writing to inform you that I am in common heth at this time Hopen these Lines will find you all well I Still stay puney But not bad off I have gained in weight since I come here I weight at this time Enough to be as stout as I Ever was I weight 165 pounds But is verry short winded and I Expect I shall Be untill I get entirely over my Kentucky trip I have nothing new to write at this time More then our men I understand is posession of Nashville Tennessee and my regment is gon to the Mississippi But I don’t Know where But it is said it is gon to Jackson (pg 2) Something like one thousand miles from here I thought I would get to come home But I See no chance unles I was to Do as some of the Rest has done Runaway and come and the way we have Been treated I don’t think it would Be any harm or Disgrace nor they and any in camps that blames any Body for Deserting I don’t Know whether I will get to come or not But I Shall try my Best I hant got But on Letter from you since I Left Lanier Station and it was at Manchester when I got there I have Been Looking for one Evry day and Shall untill I get one I will State to you what sort of fair we have here we get Beef Corn Bread and Brand Coffee for (pg 3) Breakfast Bread and Bacon and some times turnup soup for Dinner and Bread Brand Coffee and Rice Cooked in Clear water for supper they solgiers is pasing here Evry day going to the Mississippi But I don’t think I shall go untill I come home if I can get there with out getting in jail for the Law allows me Sixty days in the year and if I don’t take it I wont get it and I think that it is fare for me to have some time to go home in as it would be for the man that has twenty negrows to stay at home all the time and Extoshion on the pore people and it is my opinion that that will break up this war yet for the armies (0g 4) from Evry part of the Condedracy is deserting Evry day and going home and some of them Swayrs they will not fight to protect the Rich mans negrows while he is Exempt from the war Because he has twenty negrows and I think all such Laws is a Disgrace to the Confedracy and will Lead to its downfall FM Crumly is here with me and is as well as common his pains is still herting him Curtis Ledford is till here he was sick Last night But was Better this morning So I will come to a close for this time Good Bye for a while Write soon and Direct to Ringgold Catoosa county Ga L F Crumly To Nancy E Crumly --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 98/99) Atlanta Ga Dec 29th 1862 Dear Companion I embrace the present opertunity of Droping you a few lines to inform you that I am well at this time Hopen thes Lines will Reach you Safe and find you all well and Doing well I Received yours of the 14th a Christmas Eve which gave me greate satisfaction to heare you was all well doing well I Left Ringgold the 26th and Chattanooga Last night at Sun down and got heare this morning at ten half oclock the car had to Run with green wood so we was Behind times a Bout six hours and for that Reason we have to Lay By untill Six this Evening and then we will (pg 2) take the car for West Point Ala and from there to Mongumary and from then Mobile and from there to Jackson Mississippi We will have a Long Ride of it But no chance Escape with out Deserting and I don’t feel Like Doing that all tho I would give a Right smart to Be at home if I could not get to stay But a few days But I could not get no chance to come home so I have started for my Regt you must do the Best you can and I will come as Soon as I can get the chance But don’t Know when that will Be for it has got to Be so when they get a man in they never Let him out I tride my Best to get of to Straiten out Worwick But (pg 3) not get the chance to come you wrote in your of the 14th for me write you my contract and I had wrote it one time But I will write it a gain he was to tend the ground and pay me the Rent and I let him have my iron and he was to Lay my plosw off of it and then he was to have the Rest of the Iron and the rest that I owed him he was to have out of the Rent Corn wheich he said would Be But Little and I know it would Be but Little for I done a Right smart of work for him one way and other which I kept no account of But trusted to his honor for I hought he was homest Untill he Refused to pay you the Rent which he ws to do I want you to make him pay (pg 4) you the Rent Corn and if he wont pay it you get Lawer Sutton See if he cnat get it out of him and if he cant if I live to get Back home one time more I will make a Settlement with him that he wont Like so well as he Likes to swindle woman and children our to there Rights when he thinkes they cant help them Selves So you must do the Best you can and I will come as soon as I can and I want you to write as soon as you get this and direct to Jackson Miss as I will want to heare from you Evry week Receive the Love and Respict of your Husband L F Crumly to Nancy E. Crumly FM Crumly is going with me and is well --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 100/101) Vicksburg Miss Jan 6th 1863 Dear Companion I a gain take the present opertunity of droping you a few Lines to inform you that I am well at this time Hopen these few Lines will Reach you Safe and find you all well and doing well I Reached my Regment Last night I Left Chattanoooga on Sunday and Atlanta Monday at Six in the Eveing and got to mongumary Ala at Six Tuesday morning and taken a Steam Boat one hundred ______ miles down the old River to Selma and there we taken the Cars to Depolis and there the Citizen had Dinner on the table for (pg 2) us but we had not time Eat enough we had to take a hand full and march for the Boat which was aBlowing to Start So we taken the Boat 4 miles to the End of the Rail Road and there we staid all night and untill twelve o clock the next Day and then we taken the cars for Maredian and there we staid untell the next Day twelve o clock and then we Left there and was two days ono the way to Jackson and two days on the way from Jackson to this place for it Rained all day a Friday night and Saturday & Saturday night so the creeks got up over the Rail Road and washt a way some of the trusel Bridges so (pg 3) we was delayed on day more So we was on the Road 8 days But all got here saif F M Crumly has got the mumps verry Bad at this time Our Regt was in a fight Since they got to this place and only on of the Rgt got Killed and three wounded and one shot his self and Dide the next morning But our Company Lost none and the Yankees has all Left here and you up the River to some other point I Don’t think that we will stay here long But cant say wher we will go we are Campt on the Mississippi here we can stand and Look over in Lousianna and the Land as fare as I can see (pg 4) looks like a purfect Bottom But this side of the River is hilly But the hills is sand hills and if all the Mississippi is like the part that I have come through I ddont want to live in the Mississippi for it is all a Bed of Sand and Rotton Lime stone that washes the wort of any Land that I ever saw altho the land Brings good truck But all the Low land is coverd in water at this time there was two car boxes of the train I was on run off of the track but hurt no one So I have writen all the News in cmaps Simpson Jackson is here with us and is tolerable good health I was surprised when I saw him for I had (pg 5) herde he was dead But is glad to Relate that it is not the case But he was taken a prisner in Kentucky and was Brought down he River to this place and was trund loose But was Exchanged first I Recived a Letter of the 15th Dec from WB Shelton he stated that we wanted my shoveland if he will pay you in propotions to the worth of shovels for it you may Let him have it for if the war Ever Ends I can get another But you must get the wroth of it for shovels is verry high You must do the Best you can and if you cant get your Rights get what you can and it may be so that (pg 6) I can have the chance of Remembering them some other time for I shall Keep Evry thing down on my Books for the futer Worwick has writen to me since he got the one that I sent him and say that I need not Be uneasy a Bout you suffering for he would Devide the last pick of Corn with you he had But it looks Curious to me that he is so good to devide and wont pay the rent as he promist to do So you must Do the Best you can and Every thing will work Right in Seven year So I hve writen all that I have to write at this time I Remain you Husband L F Crumly To Nancy E Crumly --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 102/103) Loudsville Georgia Jan 13th 1863 Dear Husband I again take the opportunity of writing you another letter I have a chance to send one by Curtis who is going to start to the Regt Thursday morning he got home last Sunday he looks very well better than he did when he went off. We are all well and doing the best we can Mary Ams vaxinated all the children to day. A soldier died of the small pox below Clarksville some time ago and we thought it was high time for us to be doing something The connection is all well. I was in hopes you would get to come home before you would have to go on so far but the first thing I heard you was goe I would send you lots of things by Curtis if he could take them and in particular your Razor for I hear that when you get anything to eat you have to take time to put your moustach be hind your ears and if it is so I am afraid you will get louzy in your face I got the last letter you wrote at Ringgold and the last I got was the one you wrote at Atlanta on your way to Mississippi we have heard of the fight at Vicksburg and heard of you boys being engaged in the fight and was glad to hear that none of our boys had to hurt I expect to move next week if nothing happens (pg 2) we have heard that Alfred is dead but we don’t know that it is so Milligan Quinn is dead he died at Richmond I reckon you have heard that Jack Black and Cal Jacksons wife was dead Corben Hood Sr. is dead. There is very little sickness in the settlement at this time tell Elbert that Huldah and Willu is at his Paas to night and one both will tell Fayette that his family is well and Weslys family is well Marions family iw well and all the rest of the folks is well There is more favorable prospicts of peace soon than there has been I must come to a close for this time write soon and as often as you can So no more for a while Your affectionat wife Nancy Crumly To L F Crumly You can direct your letters to Mt Yeonah --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 104) Jackson Miss February 13th 1863 Dear Companion I take the present opertunity of writing to inform you that I am not well But on the mend verry fast I was taken with a throughing up and throught up Eight days and Eat nothng for a Bout two weekes But my apatite has come to me at this time and is tolerable good I have not wrot home in a Bout a month for I have not Been able to write But if I keep mending as I have been I will write Evry week I thought that I would get a furlow and come home But there is no chance to get one at this time for all the chance is Back at the (pg 2) the Regment I have got But one Letter form you since I come here I shall go to my Regment as soon as I think that I can stand camps for I think that I can get a furlow at camps if I cant get one I think that I orto have it for I hav got so pore that it will take one month for me to get Recruted So I can cDo Duty I got on Letter since I come here that you had Sent to Knoxville fo the 3rd Jan Wesley R Ledford Letter stated that you was going to moove down Below Mount yonah So I would Like to know wher you are going to Moove too Direct your Letters to Jackson hospatal Blind assilam L F Crumly To Nancy E Crumly --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 105/106) Jackson Miss March 1st/63 Dear Companion I imbrace the present opportunity writing to inform you that I am not well But feel much Better then I have Been I have Been verry Bad off But have got a good stumick to Eat at this time and hope that I will soon Bee well a gain so I can get Back to the Regment a gain for I have got tired the hospatal for the 4th of this month I have Been in the hospatal three months and no chance of getin a furlow at this time as I no of the docktor promised me he would try for me a furlow But he still lets it a Lone so I fear that I will not get it at all (pg 2) There was one man in theis hospatal that got a furlow this las week His mother come after him he lived twelve miles below Gainesville in Georgia but he could not get it for only twenty days but I will put up with one Just Long Enough to get homoe and have it prolonged after I get there for I have stade in ithe hospatal untell I have got so home sick that I will start on most any sort of a showing so I could get home I have not got no Letter from you But one Since I come to the Mississippi But I have Been looking for one and would be Glad to hear from you and hear whear you had mooved too as I heardyou was going to moove (pg 3) below Mount yonah but never heard whear you had mooved too I think that if I was at home a while I would get well when I could get some irish potatoes cabage alet and pickels and milk to eat I would get fat a gain for I am verry pore at this time and I am so weak that I can hardly get up the stares to my room But if I have good luck I shall Rise with it yet I don’t think that I will weigh more at this time then 125 or 130 pounds But have got a good appatite So it look like I would mend from now on if I have no Back Set I have not herde from the Regment since I came here 18 Days a go they was a good many Sick at that time (pg 4) I want you to wrrite as often as you can and Excuse me for not writing oftener for I have been so bad off that I could note write and I am so nurvious that I don’t Know whether you can Read this or note but it the Best I can do Write and Direct to Jackson Miss Blind Assilem hospatal and with all the News so I will come to a close by sineing my self your Husband untell Death L F Crumly To Nancy E. Crumly --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 107/108) White field Oktibbehee Co Miss April 25, 1869* Dear Sister I with plasure take the opertunitey of answering your leter wich I received to day I was glad to heir from you all and to hear that you was all well and I am glad to heir that you or prepairing to make A crope I wold like to see you all vary well I am veary sorrow to heir that you have not got your propetey back yet though I hope you will it looks like you mite prove the popetey When fathers folks all newe that it wer yous I tolde Mr. Duime that I had let you have my Hiefer he wanted to be her and I tolde free John the same and I told _ J Hill that I let you have her in the plase of yours and I think I told James Mulingnix and as for the other stuff you and your children maid it an if it was not your hoose was it and as for the Jack father can prove by kimsy fergusson that he got me to bye the jack for him I would go and see kimesy for I told him id father wanted time I would be or him for I need no use for him This leaves me well I am still going to school I am lering veary faste thought they is so many Prettey girls going to school I idel a way a heap of my time times is veary hearde heir evry thing is hie I am glad to heir that you have got a fine gardeen I wish you good luck I hope you will make plentey to do (pg 2) you a nother year I want know when I will come home I may take a notion to marry but if I do I will asked you all I am sorry to heir that Luseazer has left home though it may be for the best I would like to heir from her and if you heir from her I would like to know it what all did Margret talke a bout any thing that was fit to eat did she bring little Uleiner with her I want know what old Shake is ebuing through I expecty he is waiting for his Booty be a bood boy Shake your uncle Warren will come home some if this ebays and then yo uwill get ou booty old Shake come heir to me and tell me what that was Margret brought with her and tell me if it was pretty well elick how ebuet the times use you and trip have you leinte teuoy gus a b c yet elick bee a good an make heape of corn an whin I come I will bring you something well hodey buger you kuke Brink and cut with him when you ant to well Henry can you make shave yet Henry bee a good boy and mind you mother an you an Bugs see how much corn you can make this year June ____ your hinds and face clean and I will not for I got you when I come I would like to see you all this so good bye my little fellows I hope I will see you all at futhure time so far well To Nancey an her little family NW Jackson *1869 could be 1867 with the way the number was written. --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 109/110) (No date) Dear sister A word a two to you I can only informe you that I am well and I hope this will find you enjoying the same I wish I had something that was of interesting to rite you Maryann I want you to stay with Nancey and bouth of you work to one er nothers adrentedy if you will tak me _bruise in see how well you an Nancey can do work like the two little doves be good an kind to each other wroke in pear and live in love and you will in the long rune that you will pross I am glad to heir that Ely Freeman is mairred for she wanted to mairry so bad she did not know wich end was the other Well Maryann if I check up married Margret I would if not to of said old stept ____ Prueit would isnt I a felt heap nother ely rite me all the mus you have so far well Mary Ann your Brother NW Jackson --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Father and Mother you only son has not forgoten you I would like to see you both this morning and as it is so we cant see each other I will let you see my markes from my own hand and the word an word from my own hearte mother I know in my oun mind that you hates to give me up and you loose a many moments rest on the acount of my absents no doubt but you have ____ it up in your own estimation that you never will see me any more mother lye down and rest and not let that disturb you for if god will be so kind as to spir I am yours ____ we will see annither at a futhure time Father I wiould be glad if you would ite to me how much the propetey all brout and how much it paid on my nt and wether they give up my ntoe or not So far well Father and mother So fi you cnat see me You can see my name N W Jackson Well time I for got to tell you that I was rich I got one galerputhcer ring ____ tell little Mary an ten Corline wes a huly Headey for me So far well to all I am going to Whit(e)field to maile my leter N W Jackson --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 111) Mr. E T Elliott please to do as nigh as this says as you can and oblige me I want you to let Hardy Jackson have thirty bushels of corn and then if they is any more then it will take to do my wife I want you to let Father have it and pay E McCravy the third Row of Fathers sweet potatoes _ack if he wont be satidfide with out it I want Father to pull my fodder and have half of it and I want virlinda to have the rest if there is more than will do his sell it and get Tint and Louisa a dress a pease This August 8th 1869* G M Jackson * this number was written in such a way that the 9 could be a 7 or a 1. --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg.112) Receipt: Received of G W Jackson Eleven dollars in full of the All demands against him and Nancy E. Crumley this 9th Feb 1869 J W Meeks The middle initial of Jackson and Meeks is written so that you can’t tell if it is a ‘M’ or ‘W’. Letter: Georgia Whit Co Jinary (January) fifteen 1862 Dere _suther I take mi pen in hand to let you know that we ar all well hopen when this come hand will find you sefe well it __ I will writ you a few line as I a eed h__d an you as all the __ the ___ ____ hit Nancy _____ mees yit but she think she will ______ __ ___ father is a ___ so _____ her and N W is a you__ ___ a ______ with her tell William he cant tell haft ___ ___ I want to see him and A ___ you ___ ___ to see all the ___ a ____ house __ ____ \____ ____ Warren is a go to see the gurl he is ___ ___ ___ to ___ __ ____ at this time ____ were at this time As remains you s Writ ____ __ ____ __ git is ___ sister M A Jackson To W M Jackson an L F Crumley --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 113) Bud will know who it is Robert Westmorland was buried last Monday He was one of your Company I have you a pair of pants and a pair of socs and I want you to come for the if you can Fathers folks is all well Ab Houstons littl Tom Frank dies las week they take it very hard Andy Ledford has got two letter from Curtis he got one yesterday he was at Ringgold GA he was improving Hardy tell Fayette if he want to write to him direct To him at Braggs Hospital Ringgold Ga tell Fayette and Elbert that there wives and little boys is well and getting on finly Warren come back from market as I wrote to you before and is now gone again and I cant tell you where we will move till he comes back Johny Adams was brought home dead last night was a week ago I have nothing more of interest ot write so I will close for this time Strive to live right You loving wife as ever Nancy E. Crumly To L F Crumly --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 114) We are joyousley _oiging over the Bound for the ever green shore ______ ______ _______ ____ ____ __ For never so ____ any more Cho When ____ the hori_ an ___ ___ will the ___ be ______ ____ ___ wither the ____ stand ____ will land ____ the ever green shore Cho Where notheing ___ fear wind from ___ Under our ______came Ourharts in the ___ ____ ___ __ For Jesus will bring us to _____ Cho Both the wind and the wave the command Nothing can ______ his skill But his __ ___ ___ ___ ___ nt ____ Can ____ the loud tempest be still Cho Then let the _______ roar It will the ___ be ___ at last Til wither the blast and ____ land Safe on the ever green shore --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 115/116) The following was entered onto the pages of a numbered ledger. The pages from which I transcribe were copied out of order. I have transcribed them in the order of the ledger page numbers. But traiters & Coward when ____ they don’t care We will smile upon none but the brave volunterers 5 We will kill all of the Tories of the Enemy to be found and we will leave the cowards with ther chicken harts behind We will leave them at home with there Coward coats to weave While we go in capming with the brave volunteer 6 Our names will be in____ in Re____ of Fame our dees will be inspired all those who fight for fame Our homes will be honored our Country have no fear And we will all Drink to death to the Brave volunteer 7 Let Rich men & por men all a Like soom fear and we will all march to gether A Brave volunteer When our fortune fails us another we can make But when honor falls no more we can take 8 When old Lincoln Rages we will Laugh at his storm We will march under ______ We will keep us all warm We will bow to the Ladies and say good by my Dear We willmuster into service A Brave Volunteer 9 Fall into Lines Don’t Delay on the way ___ by the right or left just as your Captain says southern Blood is _____ it drives a way all fear Then comes up like Brave men and join the Volunteer 10 Our arms are extended we will soon shine the blow All of them Blood Thirsty Yankees we will soon ___ ___ ___ The Yankees they will tremble and all Lincoln fear When he hears if the marching of the Brave Volunteers 11 Soon the Wars all over and have you will come Away goes your muskets the Ladies lifts your draw The ____ part of Beauty you will hear it with a Dear That is te Boy for me now he was a volunteer A Drawd and clothing money and we will oblige To have _____ I cnat say where I shall be at home But I think the chance Bad a bout getting for ____ ____ this time I want you to write me all the news in them parts T A Dooley is getting well very fast we have some ___ sickness in camps Ther is some seven or eight sick in our Company with mumps and measels and one case of the feaver there has ben eight deaths in our Rigment but non in our Compnay tell F. M. Crumly to do the best he can with you and I will satisfy him for it if I live and trad for you Wher you cant trade for you self I shall go to Mariett the first chance and have my Likeness taken if I can get a pass from Capt moore Tell Henry and Merrida to be smart and I will fitch them a Knife a peace and tell Jane to nuss Warren good and keep him quiet and I will fetch her a pretty Bonnet when I come home and I want you to write to me how you are getting a long and how the nabors all is I want Marion to write to me as ____ as he can I would write to him to day but I have wrote all I have to write at this time So I will come to a close by saying you have my warmst hart untell Death Leander F Crumly To Nancy E Crumly --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 117) Home home home to my mother in heaven O father come an kiss me once more an ____ By mi bed rest to night your ___ will Walk through the valy of death _ _ ___ _ the And past ____ night O father I am going to mother so dear I dream That I saw her last night an over the river Sweet ____ I her _____ call me to mansions Of light Home home home to my mother in heaven O father what was ____ I take to jesus an mother to for you I will tell him to send the hold angles of life to bless and to comfort you to O father I am going to mother so dear I dream That I shall ___ last night ___ over the river Meet jesus I I hear they call me to mansions Of light home home home to my mother in heaven Our home ___ __ lonely in dark and fafter we ar hongry And cold but I sall go home to my mother ___ night Where I pleasure are pure ___ gold O father I am going to mother so dear I dream that I saw here last night an over the river sweet ___ I hear they call me to mansions of light home home home to my mother. O father dear father once more of jesus I pray you To think on when I am gone to my mother To night father please give up your drink O father I am going to mother so dear I dream that I saw her last night an over the river sweet Voises I hear thay call me to mansions of light Home home home to my mother in heaven O father dear father once more please read in my Bible an think no drunkard can enter the Kingdome of heaven o god kick my father from Drink o father I am going to mother so dear I dream that I saw her last night an over the River sweet voises I hear thay call me to Mansions of light Home home home to my mother in heaven Merry merry men of mery merry _ind Merry merry bird of merry merry _____imes A Crumley January th 24 --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 118) WAIVER AND MORTGAGE NOTE – RICHARD & CO., Booksellers, ____________ GEORGIA, White County. ON OR BEFORE The first day of November next _____I____ promise to pay R T KEUNNAN , or bearer, the sum of Six & ----------------- 25/100 Dollars, for Value Received, with interest from date, if not paid at matruity at __8__ per Cent, per annum. IN CASE THIS NOTE is collectd through an Attorney or by Law ___I__ agree to pay, in addition to The principal and interest, 10 per cent attorney’s fees ___I___ hereby waive, as against the Note, all Right to Homestead or Exemption under the Constitution and Laws of this State, including Sec. 2040 of The Code and all amendments therto. And for the full payment of this Note ___I___ bind and pledge The following property: One Bay mule colt about 3 months oldU ___I___ Herby Certify, That the title to the foregoing property is in UmeU, and that the same is unincumbered by any Lein or Judgment, and that __I__ so informed said R T Keunnan before obtaining credit, and that credit was obtainedupon said representation. WITNESS my Hand and Seal, This Seventh day of August 1886 John H Pitchford W. J. Crumly (L.S.) ATTESTED BY J. P. Osborn C.O.C. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Georgia White County Clerks Office Superior Court Recorded in Book “G” Folio 354 This Augst. 7th 1886 J. P. Osborn C.S.C. W. J. Crumley 4.25 Recd on this Note Four &25/100 Dollars Oct 30/86 (pg, 119) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Georgia, Oglethorpe County: ___I___ herby rent for the term of one years, from JAMES M. SMITH, Lanlord, the farm, known as part of the G___ yard fixed – lower end next to creek –all that J.C. Barrett worked in year 1909 & what was and is owned by Jim M. Smith to __________leading to pines containg about 55 acres more or less of open land, including the houses thereon. Said term of rent beginning on the 15th day of January 1910. __I___ agree to cultivate all open land on said farm in a farmer-like manner, and to gather all crops from thereon without waste, damage or loss. ___I___ agree to pay as rent for the said farm four thousand and twenty five pounds of Athens miaaling light cotton put up in merchantible bales and delivered at Smithonia on or before October 1st, 1910. In addition to the above rent ___I___ agree to, without charge to the said landlord, take good care of all said farm, not to cut any green or other valuable timber thereon, without the consent of the said landlord in writing, to lay off new terraces when and where needed and keep all terraces turned up with a two-horse plow, to run all rows on a level, to clear out and prevent from breaking all upland ditches, to cut new upland ditches when and where needed, to keep the land from washing, to cut drain ditches when and wehre needed to dry the land, to cut briars and bushes, clean off fence and hedge rows, build fences and pasutres, cut and split new rails for the same, cut and burn all brushes, briars and other obstructions in pastures, so as to keep pastures cleared off in a way to allow grass to grow. In case, in the judgement of the said landlord, it becomes necessary to hire labor in preparing, cultivating or gathering any or all of said crops, the said landlord shall have the right to do so, and charge the expense of the same to __me__ and all such expenses ___I___ agree shall be a lien upon all said crops, resing on the same footing as the rent. ___I___ agree to work on said farm all of ___my___ family under age, and regulary ___2___ mules or horses to plow. ___I___ agree ___myself___ nor anyone working for or with __me__ on said farm, not ot doany labor off said farm without the consent of the said landlord in writing. __I__ agree to fill up with brush and litter all washes, and to place rock on the same, so as to prevent said brush and litter from washing away; in all plowing to lift the plow over all washes, according to the order of the said landord. __I__ agree to sow and plant said farm in such crops, and use such quantities of fertilizers as the said landlord may direct; all farming operations from beginning to end shall be according to orders and directions of the said landlord. __I__ agree to make no charge for any imporvements made on said premises during the said lease, unless the same is agreed to by the said landlord in writing bbefore the immprovements are made. __I__ agree to bring all cotton raised on said farm and all grain to be fround for said farm; the cotton to the gin and the grain to the mill of the said landlord to be ginned and ground for the usual toll. Whatever damage or injury may befall said premises in consequence of __my__ neglect, carlessness or failure to carry out the terms of this contract, or from any other cause over which __I__may have control __I__ agree shall be charged up to __ME__ and the same shall become a lien upon any other property which I may own, resting on the same footing as the ren. No in order to secure the payment of the said rent, and any all all other advances that may be mad to __me__ or to nay of __my__ hands or employers, for fertilizers, supplies, money, farming --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 120) $500___ this June the 19 day 1902 ______________________ after date _____________ promise to pay to the order of R. A. Allen________________ ____the sum of five and sixty cents Dollars Value received at 8 per cent interest. The right of exemption is hereby waived as provided in Constitution and Laws of the State of Georgia or any other State in the United States, and is further agreed that the undersigned shall pay all costs of collection included a reasonable attorney’s fee if not paid at maturity. WITNESS ____________________________________ _______W.J. Crumley_________ NO. _____________Due ____November the 19 1902 Georgia To James Adams you are hearby apointed White County, overseear of the Leadings from the Court House to the district line On the road leading others And encluding the other roads that is on Jackson Housetter Corner___ ___ you will like the following stands to Work under your contoul and if any of these refus to work Return them to the (Dist) Comisheonars given under our hand, And seals the 5th January 1861 T. W. Jarrard __ C.M William A Reaves C.M. W. A. Warwick C.M. 1 W___ Adams 2 W. N (?) /Warwick 3 Jacob Tate 4 Thomas Hooper 5 William Mekes 6 John Carter Jr. 7 John T. Carter ___ C. C. Blalock 8 Frances Setbert D.C. Sutton 9 James Adams M. Patton 10 I. F. Murdock & ___ H. P. Page A. Jarrard 12 _________ Childres _ _ Kittle 13 T G (C?) Hametton 14 A.J.Hametton 15 A. I Comeher 16 I M Jackson 17 Marion Crumly 18 William B Weslihand --------------------------------------------------------------------- (pg. 121) $340__ P. O. Cornelia Georgia, Mch 28 1890 On or before October 5next __I__ promise to pay J. ( ) McConwell & Co __Agents of Marietta Guano Co., Or bearer, The sum of three and 40/100 Dollars, With interest at Eight percent, per annum after maturity until paid, and ten per cent, on amount due for Attorney’s fee, and should suit be instituted. The consideration of the Note is ________ Bags S. S. Guano, ________ “ P. P. Guano, ________ “ M. H. Gd. Guano, Sold to me by said payees. ________ “ M. G. C., ________ “ B. B. B., ___2____ “ Acid Phosphate, It is expressly understood and convennuated, That said MARIETTA GUANO COMPNAY sells said Commercial Manure as to its quality and effect on crops, on the analysis of the State Chemist, and I admit that every sack is branded according to law, and that the Inspector’s tag is on every sack for which this note is given, and I in mowise hold payee responsible for practical results of said fertilizer on my crops. And in consideration of the above, I accept said fertilizer on these terms, and waive and renounce my rights to the benefit of any Exemption or Homestead under any Laws, and to secure the payment of this Note, I herby give to MARIETTA GUANO CO. a Mortgage on all corn and cotton under which this fertilizer is used. Signed, Sealed and Witnessed in presence of ____W.J. Crumly___ Envelopes: Return Address Deliveree Address Postmarked Corprel L.F. Crumly Mrs. Nancy E. Crumly Morriston, TN Jun 15 52nd Reg GA Vol Loudsville Lumpkin Co GA F.M. Jackson Mr. L. F. Crumbly Wa________, NC Feb 20 24th Ga Reg Mount Yonah P.O. Camping __ Ga. (pg. 122) $12.50 January th 16______1885 One day after date __I__ promise to pay ____T. L (?) Smith and Son_____ or Bearer Dollars and _twelve dollars 50 Cents for value received, and _ _I_ _ hereby waive both for Myself & family all rights to homestead and exemption to which _ _I_ _ might be entitled Under the laws of Georgia, or the United States, as against this note, with interest _8_ per cent annum Until paid, and __ten__ per cent Attorney fees if suit is brought on this note. In witness whereof ____I____ have herunto set ____my____ hand an affixed my seal. Signed, Sealed and Delivered, iin the presence of ______________________________ _____W. J. Crumly_______ [L.S.] _______P. (?) Dorsey____________ ________________________[L.S.] L.F. Crumly Dr. 1856 Allison Ledford cts April 7 1 ½ bushels Corn $.75 “ 14 1 ½ “ “ .75 “ 19 1 ½ bushels Corn .75 May 3 1 ½ “ “ .75 “ 5 1 “ “ .50 “ 19 1 ½ “ “ .75 “ 23 1 ½ “ “ .75 “ 29 1 ½ “ “ .75 June 3 1 ½ “ “ .75 “ 13 1 ½ “ “ .75 “ 14 1 ½ “ “ .75 “ 25 1 ½ “ “ .75 “ 28 1 ½ “ “ .75 July 12 1 ½ “ “ .75 “ 26 2 “ “ 1.00 1857 Feb 14 1 lb tobacco .20 Mar ? 2½ lb “ .50 $11.95 April ? Credit by Cash .50 May ? Cr “ “ 8.00 8.50 3.45 ?? --------------------------------------------------------------------- More comments: As evidenced from some of the poetry (although not sophisticated), I find that there was a creative streak in Leander, a type of creativity that I have not heard of in his decendents in my branch. He also appears to have been an affectionate man by the way he signs his letters to Nancy, as well as the way he speaks to his children. Leander's youngest son, Warren, moved his family to the Oglethorpe/Clarke County area with hopes of finding a better life after being unsuccessful in the mountainous area of White County. He became a sharecropper for the "in"famous Jim Smith in hopes of having a better life. To a degree, this was realized, but he never had the farm he had hoped for. Most of Warren's decendents settled in Madison County with a few in Clarke. At present, they are spread widely across Georgia. A few have left Georgia for different areas of the country.