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T.G. Clark to Margery Clark (13 October 1862)

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Identifier	clark_b1f15
Title	T.G. Clark to Margery Clark (13 October 1862)
Author	Clark, Thomas Goode
Recipient	Clark, Margery B. Rogers
Date	13 October 1862
Location	Richmond (Va.) Camp Mott (Va.)
Subject	Money Payment Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions Soldiers -- Wounds and injuries Rumor -- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Broader Subject	Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 42nd. Company F United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Description	Reiteration of the previous letter, dated October 1862, regarding distribution of the same money. Mentions the death of Thos. Goode and rumor of injury from the troops on the Potomac, including their friend Ben Brown who lost part of his left arm. Also includes discussion of the need to hire a hand for the mill & fatten some hogs.
Transcript	Camp Mott Oct 13th 1862 Dear Wife,) I embrace the presant opportunity of wrighting you a few lines to let you now how we are getting along we are all well at presant and hope these lines will find you and the children all well David Murphree started home last Saturday and I sent you three hundred dollars and the boys sent fifty dollars all in the same pack Jonathan sent fifteen and Henry thirty five. I want you to pay A. McDonald fifty dollars for McEntere's putting up the levy and pay McD thirty two dollars and fifty cents for Wm. Cotton will and then I want you to pay Nancy Hudson seventy five and then you have ninety two Dollars and fifty cents left besides the boys fifty will make one hundred and forty two and fifty cents which you can use for any thing you need to try and make you and the children comfortable and if you need it use the boys and I will replace it for them for I do not want you to need for anything and if I do not get to come home before long I will send you some moore money as soon as I can but I think that I will come home before long perhaps by Christmas at the outside. Thos Goode is dead he died up on the Potomac about the first of the month we have not heard from the boys on the Potomac for several days they had several wounded and one killed I saw Benn [?] Brown Saturday in Richmond his arm is off about 3 or 4 inches below his elbo." He was just starting home I want you to get Isaac to procure you some salt to salt your meat and try and have your hoggs all fattened well and try to put up enough meat to do you plentiful the next year for meat will be very high Bacon is worth from [?] cents to sixty cents in this market." You need not fatten more than about fifteen head unless they get well fat on the mash But I want you to try and get them shy ones up at the old field for I am afeared that they will gow wild if they are not got this fall Git Isaac to assist you in getting them up you said something in your last letter about selling Henry's horse you had better sell him if you can and not keep sow much stock through the winter I want you to try and git some one to attend to the mill if Sherman will not keep it McDonald wrote to me that he thot that Sherman would not keep it any longer that his time was out and that if he could not git him that he nowed of no other chance but Bratton but I do not want Bratton to have anything to do with it and sow wrote to him if he can't get any boddy I want you to see Isaac and get him to assist you in some one that he thinks is honest and that nows some thing about a mill.) Thare is a small package of money in with mine that Murphree has belonging to W.A. Harget that he wants you to send to his wife by some sure hand thare is twenty two Dollars send it to her or keep it untill she comes for it." it is marked to her and thare is a small roll marked to A. Phillips by some safe hand." I think when it comes to hand you had better send for Issac and let him assist you for I want them to have their money 22.00 in Phillips accept the best love of your husband for yourself and the children." 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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