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1862-11-14 Page 1
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Helena Ark nov 14th / 62 My Dear Wife I recd yours written the 4th of Nov, which today was a welcome visitor, not quite as much as you would have been yourself if I had been where I could have recieved you. But our "7 by 9" tents would be rather small for you & I to flax round in much. I have to sit "A La Turk" in there to sit at all and then the way, guns, Knapsacks, to lie round is a caution. Well, I brought my history down to Past Saturday. Nothing occurred that day but the usual drill, of 3 hours Battallion Drill on the forenoon and usual work in afternoon. On Sunday I went up to see my Indiana friends and spent most of the day with them. Eating dinner with Judge Moore, Capt. Pace & Lieut. Melon and discoursing Politics & religion alternately, and home in the evening. On Monday was on drill as usual in the forenoon, and when we came back (or rather I believe it was afternoon, as that day a new order had been issued that we also have an officers drill in the afternoon at which all the offs high & low Shoulder the gun and drill 3 hours) Well when we got back found a crowd on the river bank and went to see what the matter was, found that the Lieut Colonel & Major Clark has been taken Prisoners. They with Dr Hudson went over the river on horseback, and rode outside the Pickets some 4 miles. The Dr. says only Clark had any weapons & he only a Pistol. But
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Helena Ark nov 14th / 62 My Dear Wife I recd yours written the 4th of Nov, which today was a welcome visitor, not quite as much as you would have been yourself if I had been where I could have recieved you. But our "7 by 9" tents would be rather small for you & I to flax round in much. I have to sit "A La Turk" in there to sit at all and then the way, guns, Knapsacks, to lie round is a caution. Well, I brought my history down to Past Saturday. Nothing occurred that day but the usual drill, of 3 hours Battallion Drill on the forenoon and usual work in afternoon. On Sunday I went up to see my Indiana friends and spent most of the day with them. Eating dinner with Judge Moore, Capt. Pace & Lieut. Melon and discoursing Politics & religion alternately, and home in the evening. On Monday was on drill as usual in the forenoon, and when we came back (or rather I believe it was afternoon, as that day a new order had been issued that we also have an officers drill in the afternoon at which all the offs high & low Shoulder the gun and drill 3 hours) Well when we got back found a crowd on the river bank and went to see what the matter was, found that the Lieut Colonel & Major Clark has been taken Prisoners. They with Dr Hudson went over the river on horseback, and rode outside the Pickets some 4 miles. The Dr. says only Clark had any weapons & he only a Pistol. But
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