CATAWBA COUNTY, NC - LETTERS - Isaac Lefevers letter to wife, Catharine - 1862
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Isaac Lefevers Papers
NC Archives
PC 1512

Christian Pallace Hospital  Goldsboro NC         June 15th 1862

Mrs. Catharine Lefevers   Dear wife I onst more seat my self this sabbath 
morning to drop you a few lines to lette you now that I am still a little 
own the mend I would feel tolerable well but I have rite Smart pain own my 
breast at this time and have had ever since I have bin in camp more sow 
then I have at home I think lying out dont agree with me  Dear wife I 
thought when I rote you last letter I would not rite now more tell I got 
to the Company but as I have a chance of senden you some word by Esqr Warlick
I thought I would drop you a few lines as that is the only Sattesfaction I 
have to rite to you and when I can get a letter from you scant tell you how 
often I read it over just sow I can pass off the time and it affordes me 
great pleasure to think mor over what you have rote  Dear wife I received a 
short letter from you that Henry had rote I was trewly glad to hear from 
you onst more and to hear that the sweat little one had got well and the 
other children and your self was well Could I just see you and then just 
one our it would do me more good the bes thing that ever could be sot
before me wen I was hungry I never have craved eny thing as mutch in my
life as I have craved to see you and the little childrean you may think
you now how I feal to wordes you but you cant omagen how my fealings air
to you Dear wife I have with this letter sent you three letters since 
Henry was down hear and I have only reced the one that F Carpenter fetched
me I had bin loocken for a letter for several days and I had just started
to the office when I met Frank with the letter you don't know how much
good it don me to hear from you again but the nextime you most rite more
your letter was two short but I reckon I will not get enny word from you
now more tell I get to the company as I reckon I will start in a few days 
if nothing hapens to me I can inform you that their was one of our company
dide day before yesturday morning the same one that I had rote you about
in my other letter Mr Coalmon Pain tride my best to get him sent home
but I could not do eny good I then rote home to his folks to lette them
now it and for him to com after him if they wished to do sow he had a wife
and three little childrean at home I cant rite you as mutch of a letter 
this time for the train will start the recly I rote a letter to Henry and 
one in with yours to Frank that you can read and get some Sattesfaction
out of it a bout the hand you said you would get I rote some thing to 
henry about it if you can get one it will be all rite I must close Sow
nothing more at present but Remain you affectionate husband untell Death
Isaac to Catharine Lefevers & childrean


[Note: Isaac Lefevers was from Catawba County & married Catharine Rhodes.
He enlisted in Co. L, 89th Regiment, 22nd Brigade, NC Militia - he later 
enlisted as 5th Sergeant in Co. K, 46th Regiment, NC Troops - he helped 
build the breastworks in Kinston and wrote several letters from the 
hospital in Goldsboro in 1862 - he was wounded in a skirmish on the 
Charles City Road, Virginia, June 15, 1864, and died at Camp Winder 
Hospital, Richmond, July 14, 1864]

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