Robeson County NcArchives History - Letters .....Pvt. James E. Douglas, Co F, 51st NCT, To Mother October 5, 1862
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Letter addressed to Mrs. Elender Branch (Eleanor More Douglas Branch) at 
Lumberton, NC From James Ervin Douglas
 
Store of Kinston, NC, 
Kinston, NC October 5, 1862

My Dear Mother,
     I now take the pleasure of writing you a few lines to let you know that I 
am well at the present time hoping this to find you the same. Tell the Old Man 
and George that I am well at the present time. We went to hunt the Yankees the 
other day but we could not find them. We went about twenty miles on a march to 
where they had a little fight where the Yankees ran our pickets away from the 
Cane Creek Bridge/ But now we are ordered to Petersburg, Virginia and then I 
don’t know where to then, but I expect it is to Stonewall Jackson. We are 
fairing very well now except when we go on a march when we can not carry enough 
provision(s) to last us till we get back to where our provision is but when the 
orders came here it is not like it was at Smithville when we was riding up and 
down the river on the old boat. I got the stamps that you sent me and that pair 
of socks that you sent to me and was glad to receive them. It is not any use in 
talking about coming home for there is no chance to come. You must write as 
soon as this comes to hand and let me know how you and George is a getting 
along. As I know no more news worth your attention I will close my letter by 
requesting you to write soon. Yours truly, Ervin Douglas


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