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Mch 6th
Camp Near Brashear City Sept 16th 1863 Dear Hattie Perhaps you will think I love you becaus I write so often, well perhaps I do: but there is no use of me spending time and wasting paper telling you I love you for I am satisfied you know it. but my chief delight is in making you happy: you and sweet little May is all I have to live for in this world; and I know if I can make you happy then I shall be happy: but judging from my conduct when I was at home you will think different. but I hope you have forgive me: and I shall try and be a better husband. This is the sixth leter I have written since I left home this time I hope you have or will receive them: but I am affraid you will not as I have heard there was no mail left Orleans for two weeks as heard, I hope that is a mistake: as the mail comes this way I don't see how it comes it would not go up the the river. Dr. White was just now in my tent he is very much excited and crys a bout that letter in the republican in regard to the sanitary goods he says it is all a lie and if George Clarke comes back to the regiment he had better keep himself scarse a bout his quarters or he will boot him until his nose bleeds. So you see there will a Small pfight: all I have to say is let em fight as long as I keep well I don't want any sanitary goods: and when I do want them I know
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| Rating | |
| Title | A. B. Cree letters to Hattie Smith Cree, 1863-1865 |
| Creator | Cree, A. B. (Alfred B.) |
| Date Original | 1863/1865 |
| Description | Contains references to Col. William Stone, deserters, Copperheads, and temperance. |
| Topical Subject (LCTGM) |
War Soldiers Military life Temperance |
| Topical Subject (LCSH) |
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 Copperhead movement Desertion, Military |
| Personal Name Subject |
Cree, A. B. (Alfred B.) Cree, Hattie Smith Stone, William M., 1827-1893 |
| Corporate Name Subject | United States. Army. Iowa Infantry Regiment, 22nd (1862-1865) |
| Geographic Subject |
United States United States -- Iowa -- Iowa City |
| Chronological Subject | 1860-1870 |
| Type (DCMIType) | Text |
| Type (AAT) | Correspondence |
| Type (IMT) | jpeg |
| Digital Collection | Civil War Diaries and Letters |
| Contributing Institution | University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Dept. |
| Archival Collection | Civil War, 1861-1865 |
| Collection Identifier | MsL C9123 co |
| Collection Guide | http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/resources/CivilWarResources.html#civilwar |
| Rights Management | Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this digital image. Commercial use or distribution of the image is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. |
| Contact Information | Contact the Special Collections Dept. at The University of Iowa Libraries: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/contact/index. |
| Digitization Specifications | Scanned with Ricoh Aficio 2335 Scanner at 600 ppi, 24-bit color. Master image available in tiff format. |
| File Name | index.cpd |
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