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T.G. Clark to Margery Clark (13 June 1863)

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Identifier	clark_b1f30
Title	T.G. Clark to Margery Clark (13 June 1863)
Author	Clark, Thomas Goode
Recipient	Clark, Margery B. Rogers
Date	13 June 1863
Location	Fredericksburg (Va.)
Subject	Troop movements Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions
Broader Subject	Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 42nd. Company F United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Description	Thomas discussing troop positions at Fredericksburg and the current level of engagement; also discusses his desire to go home to care for his family
Transcript	Camp near Fredericksberg June 13th 1863 Dear Margery I again wright you a few lines to give you what little information I can as to what is going on in this Regt. We are all as well as common and and doing well we are encampt in about two miles of Fredericksberg behind the intrenchments in full view of the enemy and our Picket lines are about three or four hundred yards apart and some of our Pickets are exchanging shots every day with the Pickets of the enemy and they frequently hit one another thare was Georgian shot thro the Body yisterday and died in a few hours after. They frequently kill a Yankee but our Regt. has positive orders not to shoot unless we are attacted and the Yankee Pickets and ours have not shot at each other any altho they are in full view of each other and could have annoyed one another very much." We have no communication with them whatever.) The Yankies have a considerable force on this side the River and are fortifying." They are in about one mile and a half of our army and it is thot that we will have a fight her but it is not nown." Some dhink that thare main forse is Gon towards Culpeper for the purpose of warching Genl Lees movements Genl Lee has gone up in that Direction with a considerable force Sow the movements of the army are so mistereous that we cant te11 but little about it and are forced to wait untill thare movements devellop them selves.) My helth has not been very good since I returned but is as good now as common the 17th Regt has gone up the country had left her a day or two before we got her sow I cant tell but little about them.) I want to hear from you very Bad for I have not recvd a single letter from you since I left home Do wright and direct your letters to Fredericksberg Va 42nd Miss Vols Davis Brigade try and keep in good spirits for I intend to come home this summer or fall and to stay for I think that the Boy(s) have had experience enough to now how to git along without me and I think that it is my duty to pay some attention to my familly at home and in fact I think that I am gitting to old and have become unhelthy and I think that in Justice to myself and familly at home it is my duty to quit the army at least for a while.) Give my Bist Respicts to all my friends and accept for your selves and the children the Best wishes of your husband untill we meet again." T.G. Clark
Type	text;
Original Format	correspondence
Original Collection	Clark Family Letters
Collection Finding Aid	http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00074/
ASERL URL	www.american-south.org
Citation	Clark Family Letters, Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries
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