Pike-Lamar County GaArchives History - Letters .....From An Old Confederate November 18 1897
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The Barnesville News Gazette
November 18, 1897

From an Old Confederate

Dutch Mills, Ark., Oct. 21, ‘97
Mrs. Loula Kendall Rogers,
Barnesville, Ga.

My Dear Mrs. Rogers:

I have just been handed a paper by a friend in which I see an account of the 
meeting of the Daughters of the Confederacy and the object of the order. As I 
am a son of Georgia soil, and one of the old boys that followed Stonewall, and 
A.H. Colquitt, my heart is made to feel glad amid my afflictions, to know that 
the hearts of these women of my native home are still with us. Would to God the 
men were likewise. We would be relieved of many hours of suffering and there 
would be fewer like the humble writer, begging their bread. I served four years 
and 19 days and have been nearly helpless from wounds received at Seven Pines, 
Sharpsburg and the Wilderness, for seven years and entirely dependent and if 
our men were as much interested in our condition as the women, God bless them, 
we would be saved much suffering. But such is not the case. May God bless you 
and your co-workers and may you be able to reach and relieve many of the poor 
old soldiers in their afflictions in their old days. There is no one who knows 
how to thank you but the old soldier in destitution.

May I ask a small favor of you? If you know of any member of Colquitt’s 
Brigade, will you please give me their names and office? I have been away from 
Georgia 28 years and have lost trace of all my old comrades. If I can find any 
of them that can identify me and I can manage to carry on a correspondence, I 
can obtain State’s aid. It seems hard a man who gave the best of his days to 
the cause dearest to him, to have to spend his declining days in the poorhouse 
which I will have to do, without aid from somewhere. Wishing you God-speed in 
your Christian efforts, I am truly

Your friend,
H.C. Jones

[Transcribed 12/27/04 Lynn Cunningham]

Additional Comments:
From copy obtained at Old Jail Museum and Archives, Barnesville, Georgia. 
Compiled by Shanna English.

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