Robeson County NcArchives History - Letters .....Pvt. James E. Douglas, Co F, 51st NCT, To Mother July 20, 1862 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Tim Bradshaw timbradsjr@yahoo.com December 3, 2010, 7:54 am Letter to Eleanor More Douglas Branch from James Ervin Douglas Fort Johnson July 20, 1862 Dear mother I now take the pleasure of writing you a few lines to let you know that I am well at this time, hoping this to find you the same and I have not received any letter from you since I left home and I want you to write to me as quick as you can and let me know how you are a getting along/ We are not a fairing as well as we have been but we have (a) good house to stay in here/ We can live very comfortable as far as that is concerned and this is the pleasantest place you ever saw/ I want you to send me something when William Tyner comes back to the company/ We can see the steamers from here the paper is so bad that I can not write so I will close by requesting you to write soon. Ervin Douglas Additional Comments: Posted by permission and thanks to Steve Edgerton from his website: http://www.capefearclans.com File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/robeson/history/letters/pvtjames36ms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb