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T.G. Clark to Margery Clark (23 December 1861)

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Identifier	clark_b1f4
Title	T.G. Clark to Margery Clark (23 December 1861)
Author	Clark, Thomas Goode
Recipient	Clark, Margery B. Rogers
Date	23 December 1861
Location	Columbus (Ky.)
Subject	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 the cold weather and speculates on the likeliness of an attack by Union troops.
Transcript	Collumbus /Kentucky/ Dec* 23, 1861 Dear Wife" I embrace the presant opportunity of writing you a few lines to inform you of our presant state of health. We are all well and have bin ever since we left home. We landed here on the 19th and have suffered very much with cold since we have been here." We in camp on a hill side about one mile from the river where the wind blows sow cold that we can scarsly keep from freezing around the fier. We are sitting around the fire and our men are complaning very much of the cold while I am writing I am sitting on a camp stool with my feet on the wood and the wind blowing sow cold that scarsly can writ attall sow you must not think hard of my not writing more for I have just herd that uncle Henry ) Tutan was agowing to start home and I have but a short time to write." We are expecting a Battle any day but there is no sertainty of it I would be glad how soon sow that we could gitt away from this cold country for if it gits much colder here it will be very hard on our men. The ground is frozen very hard and ice aplenty and it snowed a little yesterday evening and this morning it is still cloudy and the prospects favorable for bad weather, the women and children are all gone from Collumbus and the whole town and all the woods round for a mile and a half is covered with soldiers. I supose that there is fifty thousand but it is guess work as to the number for a man can't git anything certain as to the number but the whole country is alive with them and if I had to guess as to the prospect of a fight I should say that I think it is very uncertain for I do not believe that the north will attack sow large a force in thare fortifications sow nothing more at presant it is sow cold that I can't think of anything I want to write about sow farewell for the presant and as soon as it gits a little warmer I will write again." Do write to me as soon as you git this for I have never recd a single line from you since I left home." 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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