Meriwether-Troup-Coweta County GaArchives Military Records.....Rufus Coggins McCrary to his Mom Nancy COGGINS McCrary January 25 1862
Civilwar - Letters Co. D, 8th Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Echols Guards
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Helena-Suzanne Shreve ElusiveShreves@yahoo.com March 2, 2004, 1:17 am

The second letter is in the handwriting of Rufus McCrary and is a copy of a 
copy and is difficult to read. The letter is addressed to his mother. He 
spells "enjoying" as injoying." He also writes "today" as "to day." I use 
parentheses to explain "gill" (4 fluid ounces). The letter is dated January 25, 
1862. Camp near Fredericksburg. 
"Dear Mother, 
I take the present opportunity of writing to you in answer to yours of the 18th 
in which it reached me today and found me in good health. I hope this may find 
you and family in like enjoyment. I have no news of interest to write. We are 
still encamped near Fredericksburg. We have not built winter quarters, but are 
comfortable quartered in our tents having built chimneys to them. My mess 
finished ours to day, and I am now injoying the fruits of my labor. I don't 
know how long the yanks will permit the injoyment. They are still lying on the 
opposite side of the river and I don't know what time they may attack us. Their 
pickets and ours are in speaking distance of each other. The river only 
separates us. I don't know whether they will attack us again at this point or 
not, but I don't think they will. We have got the best position we ever had and 
can whip them with ease........ Things are selling very high. Such things as 
apples, cakes are outrageous high. Apples are worth $2.00 per dozen, Cakes 25 
cents a piece, brandy $2.00 a gill (4 fluid ounces). It takes about $5.00 to 
get tight on. You must not think that I have been getting tight though (last 
sentence underlined).... I got a letter from John about a week ago. He was 
well. All the boys of our Settlement in our company are well and injoying 
themselves very well. We can sit in our tents by our fire as comfortable as if 
we were in a house. If the yankees will let us alone we will spend the winter 
well enough. It is getting late and I will close. Write soon. Nothing more. I 
remain yours forever, R.C. McCrary." 


Additional Comments:
Submitted by Rufus Coggins McCrary G4Niece Helena-Suzanne Shreve.
Walter Turner Note:
"Rufus C. McCrary is my great grandfather. His daughter Pearl McCrary is the 
mother of my father, John Render Turner M.D. of Lagrange, Troup Co, Georgia. I 
have always had a great interest and curiousity about the old South and the 
Civil War. However, it has only been in the last few years that facts have 
become available to me about my heritage and the tumultuous Southern history of 
my ancestors. I can remember when I was about 8 years old asking grandmother 
about her daddy's involvement in the Civil War. I can still feel her cold 
fingers embracing my face, her eyes piercing mine and whispering: "...he never 
talked about it." 

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