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Directions: Provided are the transcriptions for eight letters from January, 1864.
While reading, think about themes, or ideas, which connect these letters as well as the previous eight letters. Does a letter, for example, talk about camp and family life, battle, soldier friendships, military rank, and camp food? Most of Alonzo's letters usually contain more than one topic.
In Camp
Near Brandy Station Dear Wife I now sit Down to answer Your Kind and welcom Letter that i received Last night and now i chosen to answer it found me well and in Good spirits and Doing well i was on camp Gard Last night and it was very cold i stood 4 hours in the night and i Bet if i thought of you once i did a hundred times and wished that i could Bee at home with you But then i hope it wont Bee Long Before i shall Bee thair i Live in hopes and if it want for hope the hart would Brake and i dont think that thiss war can Last one Year more no way for i think when we Git 3 hundred thousand more men in the fieald that we can walk right threw the south with Good men to Lead us and i think that Old Mead is the man to Lead thiss army of the Potomic for hee Don't Put hiss men in to Eny thing only what hee thinks they Can Go threw with for when we ware in the |
wilderness 8 days over the Rapidan Rivar hee would ride out to the frunt and Look the Ground over and so hee went all along the Line till hee came to whare our core Ley and our core Geniral told him that hee could not take the Rebs Workes hear for we had a large Crick to Charge threw and the rebs had stakes all Drove up along the opisit side so we could not Git out after we had Got in thair and so hee ordurd us to fall Back and that was all that saved us from Goin acrost But if hee had sed went we would haft to Gon But the Lord was on our side once and i ame Glad of that and i hope that hee will Bee on our side Every time while i ame in thiss armey
Well Dear one thing more and that is i did not right to Hiram to send (unclear word) But i rote him that if hee was a mine to send one hee mint But i did not Expect that he would and if hee don't i can Live on hard tack and Porke i Gess But then it Goes rather hard some times when a man don't feeal very well i tell you
But then i don't find eny fault with no one But my self for i had no Bissmess to come down hear in the first Plaice well Mary Give my Love to all for me and hear is a sweeat Kiss for you and Mattie Mary if you Git a chance send me down a Pair of wollen socks this from Alonzo D Bump
The Alonzo Bump Letter Collection contains nearly 150 letters rich in detail about a soldier's life during the Civil War. Original documents and transcriptions are part of collections and research materials available at Brookside Museum, Ballston Spa, New York. |
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