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Identifier	clark_b1f21
Title	Jonathan Clark to Margery Clark (27 January 1863)
Author	Clark, Jonathan
Recipient	Clark, Margery B. Rogers
Date	27 January 1863
Location	Goldsboro (N.C.)
Subject	Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions Confederate States of America. Army -- Equipment Confederate States of America. Army -- Leaves and furloughs Health Smallpox 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	Jonathan discussing his health and that of the company; conditions at camp, including easy access to food and water; rumor of a possible furlough for 1 of 20 men; prices of food supplies; rumors of home events and laments not hearing from the women at home.
Transcript	Camp near Goldsboro N.C. January 27th, 1863 Dear Mother" I take the presant time to write you a letter to let you know that are well and in good health and hope that you are also in good health if I live and keep my health I will soon be a man but not a free man but I hope that I will be a free man some day which I think I will Ma I just weigh one hundred & sixty pounds and if I will keep on I will soon weigh two hundred and then I will be a whale Ma tell the children that I would be glad to play with them I think that it would be some pleasure to me tell the girls that they have treated me mean for they will not write to me I believe that they care not for me and if that be the case I do not care for them but never mind that I am doing very well as I am in high spirits there is some talk of furlouing one man to every twenty but I will not stand much chance as there is so many maried men in our Company they think that they have the best right to them but I think very diferent but there is one more thing I can stay here as long as any of them I recall that we will draw for it as there is a diference in there opinion I would like to go home for a few days I think that I could see some pleasure in the trip if I could go and stay till next fall I would like it if there was any chance for me to get home I would go if Isaac was here then I could come and stay long as I wanted to and I could do something for you there I think that it would be a very good idea for pa to send for him I think that I could be of more benafit there than he is and he could fill my place here not that I want to go home but that I think that I could be of more advantage to you not that am sick of the war I am realy tired of the war and where is the man that is not the man is not on the ground." Ma I heard that the Yankees had got my horse I can not help that I want only twenty Yankees skelps that is all I want Ma tell me how the people are getting along there since the Yankees left there I would like to be there to see them and talk about the Yankees as for seeing them I have seen thousands of them and I do not want to see them I am very tired of them I hope that I will never see them any more I hope that they will find that we are too hard for them so that we may not be bothered with them." I tell you that they are getting so here in this part of the army." Ma when I get there I think that I will stay though I think that I am doing my duty this is the 27th and the 29th I will be twenty one years old and I would be glad if I was but fourteen then I would stay at home but never mind that I am doing very well and glad that I am doing as well as I am." Ma we are in a good camp and have plenty to eat and I have a well with good water in it and it is about ten steps from my tent and only about six feet deep water there but thirty from top of the ground and it is splendid meet is very high pork from twenty five to thirty five cts and bacon at seventy cts [?] at eighteen and twenty cts potatoes at one dollar a bushel but they are getting scarse the Company is in fine health at the presant there is a few cases of small pocks in the regiment but none in our company and I hope that there will be none there has been three men died of it here and several of them that has got well Ma tell sis that I have wrote to her and she must write again Ma I wish you would write to me every week I have never got but one letter since I left there you do not know how mutch pleasure to me to read a letter from you tell Ike to write to me and not be so selfish and partickuler I think that you all have treated me bad. Ma tell Miss Lucy Hunter that I am in fine health I have not heard from her in sometime and I would like to hear from her." lucy is my only sweetheart at least my only friend that I can depend on and I shal remember her at all hazards" glad would I be if I could see her I hope that I will some day I may never" but there is hopes yet I hope that Lucy is the same by me if not I can not help it though I would not know how I would feel but never mind that. Ma tell Cousin Add that I intend to give her a good scolden when I see her for she has not wrote to me since I left there and I think she has done wrong. Ma here is a list of the girls that I have wrote to Add Good Agness Clark Mary J Clark Catharin Roan Fannie Burford Mattie Burford Sarah Roan and some others that I will not name but I hope that they will do better hereafter and then I can forgive them Jonathan Clark Ma please write to me as often as you can I would be glad to read a letter from you at any time so nothing more at present [?] remain you son Jonathan Clark to Mrs. Margry B. Clark Jonathan Clark " ever thine Margry B. Clark by Jonathan 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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