Duplin County NcArchives Photo Document.....H. R. Blackman Letter To His Brother 1865
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Elmira N. Y. June 11 1865
Brother I write you a few lines this morning which leaves me in silence but 
good health (B)ut I am compelled to announce to you the death of my poor 
Brother [R. A. Blackmore} (H)e was taken Sick with the cronic diarrhaea the 9 
of March & was confined to bed until June 3rd (A)bout 4 Oclock PM he departed 
this life poor fellow Suffered a great deal but I am in hopes that his 
Sufferment was in this wourld (M)other I have wrote you a good many letters 
but I Suppose you have not recd any of them (I) have recd all of yours (I)t 
only takes about 5 days for a letter to come to me (W)hen you write me I 
(cant) why you do not get my letters (A)ll the letters you write even the one 
that you wrote to Col Moore [Lt. Col Stephen Moore, superintendent of Elmira 
Prison, New York.  Union Prisoner of War Camp] came and he send for me and I 
red the letter (T)hese are Orders __________ I now to releace all of this camp 
and I think I will get out (In) the course of 3 more weeks [Elmira Prison was 
decommisioned and all inmates paroled on July 5, 1865] if I keep living and am 
able to travel but it Seames to me that I am bound for hard luck I expect I 
will be in the last load that leaves this place (Y)ou wrote to me to take the 
oath [Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America] (I) am ready to do 
that any time when they will let me take it and has bin for Some time (M)other 
I have a notion of going to the State of Texas as my fortune has bin so hard I 
think I will try a new country (T)hey give a man transportation any where he 
wants to go but if I live to get out of this place I reckon I will come by and 
give you a call (M)y fair ___________ are very hard (I) do not get my thing 
_________ (I) make Scacely enough to Sustane life but with the help of god I 
will get out of this Sometime.
yours truly
H E Blackmore

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