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T.G. Clark to Margery Clark (11 May 1863)

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Identifier	clark_b1f27
Title	T.G. Clark to Margery Clark (11 May 1863)
Author	Clark, Thomas Goode
Recipient	Clark, Margery B. Rogers
Date	11 May 1863
Location	Ivor (Va.)
Subject	Troop movements Soldiers -- Wounds and injuries Suffolk (Va.) Fredericksburg (Va.) Black Water (Va.)
Broader Subject	Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 42nd. Company F United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Description	Thomas detailing the fighting around Suffolk & Fredericksburg, Virginia, and the movement of his company
Transcript	Camp near Ivor South Hampton County Va May 11th 1863 Dear Margery I embrace the presant oppertunity of Dropping you these few lines to let you know how we are getting along we are all well and hope these few lines may find you all well. We have [?] returned from Suffolk a few days ago whare I found the boys when I got back to them they was on picket at Suffolk and had been for several days.) I got to them on the Sunday weak after I left home,) they had Driven the Yankees in to their fortifycations at Suffolk and [mended/hemmed] them in for about three weaks and had picket fighting more or less every day thare was one nan slightly wounded in my company his name was Robbins a son of old John Robbins below Banner slightly wounded in the knee and was sent to the hospittal in Petersbutg have not heard from him We left Suffolk last Sunday was a weak we marched 3 days and 2 nights strait and without resting but very little which used the Boys up pretty bad blistered up their feet very bad but they are getting all right again." We have but little to do whare we are now but we are fortifying our position very strong on the Black Watter but I do not think that the enemy will ever come out and fight us for I think that we pretty well satisfied them while we was on picket at Suffolk for our Boys kiled and wounded a good many of them but the number could not be asertained but the Boys in the 11th Miss Regt met and talked with a Compny of the Yanks by agreement between the officers of the two Companys and they told them that the boys of the forty second with their long range guns had killed and wounded a good many of their men and they wanted to make an agreement with them for our Brigade and thers not to shoot at each other any more but the next day we was ordered away from thare." Our Boy(s) would shoot at them when ever they could see one poke his head above the Breast works and they soon found when the 42nd was on picket and would keep them selves very close in their quarters. We are now about fifteen miles further up the Blk. Water River than we was when I was at home but do not now how long we will stay her." Our post office is Ivor Station Va whare you must mail your letters for the presant.) the big fight has come off Fredericksberg and resulted in a Glorious victory on our side fighting Jo Hooker has very Badly whiped the Yankees loss in kild and wounded is set down at 25 thousand while ours is not more than five thousand.) I wonder who they will put up in Hooker's place now. Barksdale's Brigade suffered very bad in the fight but I have not here any perticulars as to the loss in that Brigade I would like to her from the 17 Regt but have not herd anything reliable. Give my love to all my friends tell mar and par not to think hard of me for coming away as I did for I could not bear to tell them farewell." But I hope they are well by this time.)(No signature-Writing seems to be T. G. Clark's)
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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